It's been over a year since I last checked this blog, and I've discovered that a whole fortnight is missing from my adventures in Japan. I was staying at my friends place in Akashi (she went to Kobe Gakuen) because my contract with my host mother had ended. I explored Japan a little more from there.
The details are fuzzy, so I'm just going to illustrate the last few days in a non-chronological series of captioned photographs.
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| The view from my friends apartment in Akashi |
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| Last nomihoudai in Osaka |
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| Tokishi getting ready to wave goodbye to me at the train station |
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| My friends at Kobe Gakuen featured on a train poster in Osaka! |
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| Signs at Kobe's Oji Zoo - baby pandas |
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| A proffessor at the womans college we tutored at |
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| A last look at the woman's college |
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| Kobe Festival |
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| A lot of people at the Kobe Festival |
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| Believe it or not, this is a love hotel in Osaka |
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Intense six hour karaoke session in Akashi with Elen!
I didn't even realize I knew 6 hours worth of songs ><
(This was a last minute time killer which turned out the be one of my favourate nights in Japan) |
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| Rasta panda at Oji Zoo. Complete with marijuana on his little red tee. |
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| Caroline managed to convince someone to rent us bikes for cycling around lake Biwa |
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| A congratulatory meal after cycling around Lake Biwa all day |
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| Me with Ayaka at Kiyomizu Dera (Water temple) in Kyoto |
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Me and Ayaka decided to cycle from Kyoto to Lake Biwa
Took us 2 hours there and 1.5hours back (because it was all downhill) |
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| Lots of rice paddys around Lake Biwa |
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| Sunset was beautiful at Lake Biwa - I recommend going swimming there in the summer |
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| Owner of a cute gay bar called Frenz where Lady Gaga partied when she went to Osaka |
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Having deep political conversations with a guy at Captain Kangaroo in Umeda
(a cosy bar with good deals and burgers) |
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| Larry getting dressed by a shop assistant in Hep Five, a huge and expensive shopping mall in Osaka |
What's missing is just general nights out, trips to the 300 yen store and the park in Akashi, the not-very-british-but-amusing-british-pub called Hub, visiting Kobe Gakuen, awkwardly waving off my host family at the train station, accidentally melting my friends plates in the microwave and forgetting to replace it, visiting Robert at his new apartment in Kyoto, taking Caroline to the airport, etc etc.
In hindsight, this blog as not been at all useful in terms of how to get to places, but at least you have names and a vague idea of it. Every place that I've mentioned on this blog as a whole is worth visiting, though. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to mention it. Japan is not as small as it makes out, it's huge and wonderful, so do explore and keep your own blog if you can, so that I can stumble across it one day and schedule some of the sights you see into my next trip to Japan.
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