Osaka - mangakissa

Internet, manga, dvds and free ice cream :) (but a lot of smoke as well!)











Gift wrapped banana?!?


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Osaka - Hanatem

Image of Hanatem, the district in which i was staying in osaka



Laundry day hehe





Chiburaska on the tube!!! (picture for kate!!)




Different prospective of the world.

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Osaka - umeda sky building

First day in osaka. Went to the skyline buildings in the umeda district and went up to the 173 floor. there were escaletors in between the two buildings to go up, really impressing!




































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Hiroshima -museums

I Rented a bycicle and went around art museums. The weather was nice and the air was fresh.
















Many fancy bathrooms in japan :)

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Myajima

Finally able to update. Didn't had proper internet connection in a while.
Pictures from the beautiful myajima! Where there were deers and monkeys :)


The famous tori






A wedding in the temple




Oyster rice! (picture for my dad who loves oysters :) )




Fairytale looking place. Would be nice to photoshoot there..


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Hiroshima - Peace memorial park

Yesterday i took the superquick Nazomi -Shinkansen and reached Hiroshima in just 4 hours.











(too fast to photograph with the cellphone!)






I then visited the moving Peace memorial park with his Bomb dome and museun until early evening.






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Tokyo - broken lens

So wednesday i finally changed my travelchecks






I then got ready to leave tokyo, but accidentally brooke my 24-70 lens :( i felt awful as it is really a vital part of my equipement and is also a quite expensive lens. Luckily nikon will repair it and i'll have it back when i'll reach Osaka on the 13th. If i had the lens brooken in italy it would have probably taken much more time to repair. So is not that bad afterall :)








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Tokyo - Kenji

The other day i met kenji! It was nice seeing him in his hometown.
We went to a museum of photography and then had a yummy icecream crepe.






We then headed off to a temple too see kids wearing kimonos for the first time. Lovely.


Finally we had some italian food in Shinjuku (i was missing pasta hehe) thank you kenji for the nice company!

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Tokyo - yucata

Another day in harajuku. To photograph and to buy a yukata for my mum and me :)






Many people photographing a couple of cats and saying "kawaiii kawaii" hehe




I then walked from ikebukuro to nishi-sugamo. It didn't take much more time then taking the yamamote line and rhe tube after all.


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Tokyo - willy wonka chocolate

Today i had a long day in harajuku and shibuya trying to photograph as much lolitas for my project as i could. I then went into a pharmacy to get something for my stomach and ended up finding a willy wonka chocolate instead!! To bad that it was 6.000 yen (about 42€ - 37£!!)







And then today..from my bedroom window..








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Tokyo - day off

Yesterday i took a day off as i was a bit tired to walk everyday, i slept a bit more and then had some Ramen in a restaurant not too far away with Yoko and her dad who is really i nice person. I then watched him cook a bit in the kitchen (he is a chef) and was amazed by how quickly he wad cleaning and cutting the fish to make sashimi.



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Tokyo - visual kei

So today after trying sumo for the second time i walked around shinjuku and then in the evening Sarah and I attended a visual kei event. I wish i was able to take decent pictures there, but unluckily it was forbidden. I didn't know much about visual kei, but it was a lot of fun to watch both the performers and the girls of fanclubs who where dancing in perfect unison to the songs, really amazing. I got a small video of that, but i m afraid i won t be able to post it from the phone as it may need to be converted.









Btw there is a thing that sell flowers on the tube, haha!

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Tokyo - sumo + christon cafe

I ve been Getting up very early in the morning in the past few days to try to photograph sumo trainings, but i had no luck so far. I will give it another chance on monday :)










I also went to a cafe called 'christon' with the lovely Sarah, it was some kind of pub/restaurant/cafe that looked like a prophaned gothic church. It was really a nice not for tourist place and.. Of course we had some cakes :)

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Tokyo - Tokyo tower + Ginza

Today i started visiting the city by myself once again.
I went to the Tokyo tower (some kind of red copy of the eiffel tower but like 8meters higher hehe) and then had some 'bento' in a park as it finally has stopped raining.



















From the tower










(..yes that should be me haha)










Then went the zojo-ji buddist temple next of the tower, sorry it is really an awful picture, anyway it was lovely.










Finally i finished the day by visiting The posh Ginza distric, and the laica ginza salon where there was a photographic exibition.

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