Archive for the ‘trip in Japan’ Category
This is a cafe in Kyoto that is inside of a renovated old western-style building. It has high ceilings that give it a nice spacious feel.
There are always lots of customers, but Kyoto’s relaxed atmosphere and the comfortable environment will let you relax. The lunch course was also delicious!
cafe flowing KARASUMA (japanese)
This is the place I like the most in Kyoto! We renovated a closed school building for making this museum. Therefore, we use classrooms as manga exhibition rooms.
In this museum you can read manga freely as you want! Some read manga in a hallway. Others lie back and read manga on a tatami mat. You can also sit reading manga on the terrace or on the lawn.
This museum holds a workshop for drawing manga and painting anime figures. We also invite a manga celebrity for a talk show. Here is the place we can enjoy ourselves whenever we visit. I want to live in here if possible!
Kyoto international manga museum
Mitarashi-matsuri, a festival that is held every summer at Shimogamo-shrine in Kyoto.
Only during the festival, people are allowed to step into the pond with deity water of the shrine. Soak feet in the beautiful and cool pond, light a candle, then have the water of the shrine.
This is a festival for people to remove their sins and impurities and to wish for their health and longevity.
Shimogamo jinja
Shimogamo – jinja shrine (Welcome to Kyoto)
These are Pocky Dessert “Chocolate Banana Cake” and “Strawberry Custard Cake ” flavors from Glico.
They are very creamy, covered with thick, rich chocolate. It’s like eating cake decoration on a stick.
It’s very fun to have them for dessert at friend’s party.
Pocky (japanese)
I LOVE Enoshima Aquarium because of their special jellyfish fantasy hall I introduced before.
I went to there again and this time I challenged to the famous Gashapon, limited sales at eight Aquariums in Japan.
I couldn’t get my wish item, blue jelly fish. :’( But all of these are awesome modeling!
Enoshima Aquarium (Enosui)
Aquarium Limited Gashapon (toy vending machine)
Enoshima is one of the nearest resorts from Tokyo. It takes 1 hour and a half from Shibuya.
I ate “Shirasu Don (the young of sardines bowl)”, a local specialty of Enoshima.
People enjoy playing by the sea or surfing… the rest houses are under construction. summer will come soon!
Enoshima (Wikipedia)
Google Maps
If you have seen this at real mountain, it may be toadstool (lol), but this cute pink kinoko are strawberry flavored chocolate with dried strawberries and seeds!
You can enjoy both of the sense – crispy chocolate mushroom and crunchy biscuit stem.
kinoko no yama & takenoko no sato – Meiji (Japanese)
Our house-hunting is still on. Now we’ve visited an apartment in Azabu area.
Azabu is near Roppongi, where a lot of foreign embassies are located. It’s a really cosmopolitan place.This apartment in Azabu is very quiet and it has a lot of green.
The kitchen and the bathroom are just like the ones we used in the 70′s. They’re cutely retro!
This apartment has an accessible open rooftop.
If you look down from there, you can see the neighbor’s fish pond!
