Archive for Food
{ August 18, 2007 @ 4:15 am }
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{ Food, Fukuyama }
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• Morning
o Today was a late morning.. I woke up at around 8:30, but we left around 10:00. Ena, her sister, and I headed to a small fishing town to do some siteseeing
• Small fishing town
o We arrived around 11ish and decided to walk around a bit, do some shopping, and just see the sites. I found a smallish kenzan for one dollar and decided to buy it haha… just sooo expensive. We walked through a shaded shopping street and Ena bought some presents for her parents. We then took this ski lifting ish thing up a mountain to get a great view of the ocean and of the town. It was rather short but by the time we got to the top we were all rather hot. We walked around some more at the top of the mountain, taking in the sites, taking pictures, even getting some manago icecream… and then we headed to a small museum. The museum seemed a bit out of place because the pictures were by Japanese artists, but of france… interesting…but weird. We then saw a small temple on the mountain which was beautiful. We all got fortunes at the temple and I got one giving me good luck of some sort… excellent
o For lunch we headed to this famous ramen place where we all ordered a large bowl of ramen…. Delicious…not especially nutricious, but who cares. We then walked around some more, bought some famous hakata orange juice (tasty, sour, refreshing)… and headed back to the house.
• Dinner
o We all went out to dinner at this seafood restaurant… another meal of not knowing exactly what I’m eating, but fully enjoying it ensued. There was tons of food, but lots of small portions so it wasn’t overfilling. I could go on and on about food in japan, but no doubt it gets boring, so I’ll stop there.
• Last night
o We got back to Ena’s grandmother’s house and I packed my suitcase, but I no realize that I forgot a small plug for my laptop (not to worry when I get home I have another one, but for the last week internet shall be a minor inconvenience). Ena and I played wii sports for an hour or two because the bowling game was so addicting… it was hilarious, but about midnight by the time we finished. I heaed off to bed… and sleep soon followed
{ August 5, 2007 @ 1:44 pm }
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{ Food, Tokyo, shopping }
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• Morning/Afternoon
o Nate and I woke up at around 12… We both managed to make ourselves look slightly awake and then we headed out to meet Iori for lunch. On the way, we ran into her mother, and so we all headed together to meet Iori. We had a nice simple lunch of lots of random Japanese foods (umm… udon, miso soup, the usual suspects,) Iori had to go back to driving school, so Nate and I headed out to Shibuya to look at clothes and just relax.
• Afternoon
o Shibuya is amazing. Nate and I arrived at Shibuya station… at the famous intersection that you often see in photos of japan. This is the intersection where hundreds of people cross it ever few minutes. There are so many people that you can’t see the ground at times. I really don’t miss the ground that much. Another fact of shibuya is that the girls are def more attractive than Osaka… granted, Osaka isn’t bad in that respect at all, but Tokyo in general wins. Osaka sure as hell beats the US, but this isn’t tough ahaha, I’m such a horrible person. I’m going to come back to the US, and look at the percentage of people that are overweight and just close my eyes and hope things will change. Ok, enough about how the US fails. Nate and I walked around Shibuya and I managed to buy a shirt that wasn’t $100… to my relief. Shibuya is rather expensive, more so than Harajuku. Nate managed to buy a $100 pair of jeans and a $100 hoody… but I’d be more lenient with my money if my parents gave me unlimited funds too haha… but enough about that, since he usually pays for my lunch when we hang out I’m in no position to complain. We went to a Korean barbecue place to get a drink after shopping for a while. The weather was so hot, so we were just looking to have a beer and sit and talk for a while. Yet, as we sat down and I ordered two beers in Japanese… hell yeah… the waiter put down the coals in the barbecue so we were rather obliged to order something. We ordered a plate of meat that neither nate nor I really knew what was in it. Luckily, we asked about one suspicious looking piece of meat and it turned out to be stomach… close call, we didn’t end up eating it. The rest of the meal was delicious, but decidedly more Japanese looking than Korean looking. We headed back to Roppongi to meat Iori for dinner.
• Evening
o Iori was exhausted, so we took a quick trip just one metro stop away for dinner. We had Korean barbecue again haha… didn’t plan it. It was better this time and decidedly more Korean. I just had a simple dish and we all shared a bit of meat on the barbecue and a few dishes. Afterwards, I took the long trip back to my hotel and by the time I got there it was almost midnight. Sleep was easy.
{ August 5, 2007 @ 1:12 pm }
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{ Food, Tokyo, shopping }
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• Morning
o The trip to Tokyo was mostly uneventfull… I took a few trains and a shinkansen and had a tasty bento box along the way. I wish I’d seen mt fuji out the window, but I fell asleep for part of the trip, so didn’t notice.
• Arrival
o I got into Tokyo a bit after two… and realized I had to walk ten minutes to my hotel… grrr… that’s going to suck when I have to take my suitcase back to the train station to go to Hiroshima. Shortly after arriving I headed to Harajuku to meet up with Satomi. We browsed Harajuku for clothes, talked, and just hung out. We bought some famous harajuku crepes… which were amazing. These crepes consist of crepes that are wrapped up in the shape of an icecream cone and stuffed with fruit, icecream, whipped cream, and mine had cheesecake… it so delicious, probably the least healthy thing I’ve eaten in japan so far. Granted, beer isn’t especially healthy, but it sure has less calories. We followed the crepes up by shopping some more and I bought a pair of black leather shoes (or atleast black… leather… maybe). Harajuku has amazing clothes and accessories at reasonable prices… and everyone looks as though they have watched too much anime and wanted to dress as their favorite characters; I love it. Satomi and I hung out for a few hours and then she had to get back to school, so I headed back to my hotel to take a shower. I arrived at my hotel and phone rung… it was Nate… we decided to meet in Roppongi.
• Night Time
o It took about an hour for me to get to Roppongi with the help of two trains and a bus. I arrived at Nate’s apartment (or rather… the apartment of his ex girlfriend where he’s staying.) We just talked for a bit and then decided to grab some dinner; it was about 9 oclock, so we were both game for a bit to eat. Iori (nate’s ex) arrived as we got to the apartment, and we headed out. We went to a bar/restaurant… in that there were drinks, smokes, and small dishes… but somehow we made it into a dinner. Iori stuck with one drink, while nate and I ended having two… no matter how non intoxicating rum and coke may be. Yet…. As with most things, it tastes better in japan. I don’t remember all the dishes we got, but one was raw horsemeat which was delicious. It was just like sashimi. After dinner Iori was a bit tired so she headed back to the apartment while Nate and I headed out to a bar. We headed to the wallstreet bar where the bouncer asked me “how old are you?”… “20” I answered and yep “forgot my id”…ahahaha. He looked at me and gave me this ‘I don’t believe you’ look, but still let me in. Nate and I started with a carona each and we just sat at the bar and smoked a cigarette. Nate ran into a salaryman that he’d met before and we all talked for half an hour or so as the night went on… the guy was so happy to meet me and see Nate again that he bought us all a shot of whiskey (shots go for ten dollars)… but I wasn’t stopping him. We had another carona… and just hung out at the bar… which was basically a club by this point, everyone was dancing (or… in their inebriated state… I’m sure they thought they were dancing.) I decided to be adventurous and ordered a b52 since I still wasn’t feeling much… this turned into a great idea. While ten dollars for a shot is indeed insane, this was just beautiful. The b52 is a mix of kahlua, ameretto, and one other liquor which I forget… it is then lit on fire… and drunk straight down with a straw…. Smooth… intoxicating, and delicious. The only way to go. At 2 am, we both were a bit tired, so decided to get a snack at first kitchen. We both got these tiny pizzas and then headed back to Iori’s apparment to crash.
{ August 2, 2007 @ 2:09 pm }
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{ Food, Osaka }
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• Morning
o I had a leisurely morning wasting away the hours eating a nice breakfast and catching up with friends. I then decided to head to koreatown because I hadn’t had Korean food in forever.
• Koreatown
o Catching the train to koreatown was rather easy. Luckily, the stop was only the 3rd stop away from my hotel, so it took about 12 minutes. I arrived at tsuruhashi and decided to check out the shops. ***I have officially found the place where everyone buys their fake LV wallets/bags*** The whole shopping area surrounding the station consisted of fake designer goods, lv, d & g, evisu,bape, guess, coach, the list goes on. It was hilarious, but everyone was really nice at the shops. There were also loads of Korean places selling kimchi and other delicious food items. Though, getting to Korea Town was a bit of a trick… I asked where it was a few times, and eventually ended up going there with a few Japanese girls who had gotten directions. Arriving at korea town, I went to this great place for a lunch of something that was a cross between bipimbop and bulogogi (basically, rice, meat, egg, and stuff)… which came with soup, unlimited kimchi and some other random vegetables… best Korean food ever. I follwed up my lunch with a bit of a snack… which came in the form of dango. Dango is basically sweetened red bean paste… rolled into balls and put on a stick. It’s amazing and colorful. It was so hot today, I was roasting… coming back to the hotel to take a shower felt blissful.
• Evening
o I though that since it was my last night in Osaka I would splurge a bit on my dinner… I walked around… found a rooftop restaurant and took a seat. I ordered a glass of chochu (35% by volume) and sipped on it as I looked over all of Osaka… I love the city view. I ordered some sushi (didn’t know was it was), which came with udon (noodles), and soup, and random vegetables… it was delicious… and the total only ran me around 2000 yen… or less than $20… not bad at all.
o I came back to the hotel afterwards and relaxed and drank some nice cool water… Good bye Osaka… time for Tokyo!
{ July 31, 2007 @ 2:03 pm }
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{ Festival, Food, Osaka }
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• Morning
o I started today a bit late, but it turned into a fun day. I took the train to Kyobashi and then to Odawa to find the place I’m getting my hair done at. That was an adventure. When I arrived at Kyobashi I was rather hungry, so I decided to look in the department store basement and try to find food. A host of possibilities emerged… yet I chose the path less traveled. I decided to make a breakfast out of samples. There were so many samples and they were so delicious… it was wonderful. I had some pieces of pastry… a few vegetables… some other little tidbits… toss it down with a drink from a vending machine… and life is good. Unfortunately the train to Odawa cost me $2, but once I got there I was so confused. I couldn’t find the hair place at all. I thought I’d ask someone… so I asked at a random grocery store and the woman decided to come on a walk with me to find the store. We walked around for 15 minutes practically… and I felt so bad, but she didn’t want to leave until we found the store. We finally found it though… and I thanks her so much… but it wasn’t open today ahahha, after all that… so I’m going tomorrow.
• Osaka Castle
o I decided after coming back from the hair place that it was time to see Osaka castle… and it was def worth it. I took the train to kyobashi again and then went one step further and ended up at some station near Osaka castle… and low and behold.. there was a festival. I think I’ve been to so many festivals here I’m losing count. Festivals are amazing for two reasons… food… atmosphere. There was a great food… and the atmosphere was perfect. I had this pinapple pop… which was real pineapple… frozen… in poplike form… brilliant… delicious. After having my pineapple pop… I wandered around and headed up to Osaka castle. It took maybe ten minutes to reach the building and it was beautiful… I didn’t bother paying $5 to go inside because I heard the inside was rather disappointing. The outside though, was far from disappointing. After seeing Osaka castle, I headed back to the festival to get some yakisoba… tasty. I have resisted getting takoyaki (octopus balls)… but I really should try them while I’m in Osaka… oh well, another day. I rounded my food intake off with some shaved ice (mango flavored)… delicious. The interesting thing about the food in japan is that everything you eat lists how many calories it has. How convenient… how brilliant… how simple. We should do that tooo……
o After having some amazing food at the Osaka castle area, I headed back to the hotel to relax a bit, take a shower, do some laundry and then have dinner eventually. I really wanted to go to a restaurant, but the restaurants around my hotel are so sketchy. I trust familymart (the convenience store) much more. I looked at the food at the grocery store near here and I was frightened out of my mind. Thus… because of the failure in reliable places around me I had a dinner of a rice ball, a steamed meat bun, some edemame, and a drink. Not bad… but could have been better.
o I decided to ready some more Harry Potter following dinner… and then took a nap. That concludes the day basically.
{ July 29, 2007 @ 12:09 am }
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{ Festival, Food, Kyoto }
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• Morning time
o I woke up this morning and I think I’m still a little bit drunk….just a little. The shower helped a lot to clear my head, but I plan to wait an hour or so before doing any activities. I love the free tea that we get in the lobby, and it’s slowly helping to wake me up. No adventures for a bit this morning, so I might go back upstairs and take a little nap.
• Kyoto
o At around 11 I decided to head to Kyoto, I grabbed my umbrella and my map of Kyoto and walked to the train station. Unfortunately, I forgot my rail pass so I headed back to the hotel and grabbed my pass. I was about to head out when I ran into some friends of mine I’d met at the hotel who were heading to Kyoto as well. I decided to wait a half an hour and then we all headed out to Kyoto. We shared stories and talked and had a nice time on the trip to Kyoto, which wasn’t that long… probably 40 minutes. When we arrived, we stopped at their hotel where they dropped off their bags and then we decided to look around for a place to eat. We went to a restaurant named Sato that had Shabu Shabu. For those of you that don’t know… Shabu Shabu is an amazing dish. It consists of a large pot of water, which sits in the middle of the table and starts boiling. Then… you get a large plate of vegetables, which you toss into the boiling water to add flavor. Third, you have a plate of raw thin strips of meat. Finally, you get a few sauces. You then slowly drop pieces of meat into the water and watch it cook instantly. Using the sauces and the vegetables and the meat you make yourself an amazing meal. It was wonderful.
o After the meal we decided to walk around a bit and just hang out in Kyoto… we walked along the river and bought some fireworks and just hung out. Kyoto is very quiet in the daytime and I felt as though we were the only people there. There were many cars on the streets, but in general other than the few bicyclists I saw no one else on the street. As it turned out there was a festival that night at around 8. It took us a while to get to where the festival was taking place, but we just followed the many girls and guys wearing yukatas and that soon led us to the festival. There was one girl wearing a kimono and a power ranger mask….wtf? The fireworks were breathtaking though. They were quite possibly the best fireworks I’ve ever seen. Almost right after the fireworks stopped it started to rain lightly… luckily I had my umbrella. Since the station was so crowed we took a brief train to Nara and attempted to find a restaurant… it took a few minutes but we found this 24-hour place, which had great food for very cheap. After dinner I headed back to catch the last train to Osaka.
o We all exchanged numbers before I left and since they’re going to Tokyo, we plan to meet up and possibly climb mount fuji if things work out according to plan. Life is good.
{ July 27, 2007 @ 5:37 am }
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{ Food, Osaka, shopping }
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• Morning
o I woke up this morning and low and behold… my jet lag is almost completely gone. I woke up around 7… so that was good. Last night I had been really worried that I was running out of money too fast, but as I was calculating it this morning I realized I was perfectly on target haha, so my worries were for nothing. That was probably the best part of my morning. After that I took a nice shower and met someone else from the US who almost went to Amherst college, so we talked a bit… cool guy. I decided that today I would see the Umeda sky building, which is an amazing building in Osaka that overlooks the entire city. It also has two escalators that connect he two buildings that compose it .
• Off to Osaka
o I decided to take the train to Osaka (surprisingly enough) because it’s free… yes, all trains are free when you have a jr pass… only $500 and your soul. Ok, just kidding. Anyway, I took the train to Umeda (center of Osaka), which took about 15 minutes and arrived at the station at about 9 oclock ish. I was too early for the umeda sky building, so I decided to get some breakfast a drink from a vending machine. Wow… I love the vending machines. For breakfast I had a strawberry yogurt thing… for $1.50… mm, yum, strawberry. By the time I was finished the umeda sky building had opened up, so I traveled to the top for a nice sum of $4 (500 yen) because I said I was a high school student… ok, morals down 5 points… but I’m not too worried. The view was amazing… you could see all of Osaka and they even had free binoculars at the top.
o I decided to look at a few shops after the tower and I arrived a place called comme ca isms which I had been before. The only difference was this come ca isms stores had 6 floors… count ‘em. It was rather amazing and I ended up buying this really nice hoody for a reasonable price. Did I mention how much I am liking the clothes here… I know, probably not enough. After shopping at comme ca isms I headed to this underground mall to explore and possibly shop more. I ended up having a nice conversation with this cute girl who owned a shop selling jewelery… I was trying to find a present for my sister, but unfortunately she didn’t have anything… still, talking in Japanese always makes my day more interesting. I’ve been doing a lot of it.
o The mall didn’t really have anything I wanted to buy… or rather, anything I could buy but it did have something better…, which came in the juicy package called food. Wow, Osaka is the master of food. I paid about $4 for a huge lunch that included all the essentials: miso soup, little bit of salad, random veges, curry, rice, random Japanese fish… and water. Wow… I was exstatic and full.
• Back from Osaka
o Oh, this is a great story… I had two fun encounters on my way back. First… got to the train station and was rather confused as to which train to take… but help came. Back story… bording the escalator after a bunch of Japanese school girls one of them tripped and I said something along of lines of “careful… that’s dangerous” or something like that. They turned in my direction and said something like “he knows Japanese… amazing…wow… ahhh” anyway, long story short… as I’m looking up at the train schedule really confused I decide to ask for help. I turn to one of the girls and ask her what train to take to shinimamiya station (in Japanese)… she looks rather confused, but another girl seems to know what’s up… so I ask her. After a bit the whole bunch of school girls trails after me to the train schedule and finally we figure out which train to take. Ahaha, hilarious.
o As I’m taking the train back, I see a kid who’s shaking his shirt after getting into the train and I say something along the lines of “hot isn’t it” and he responds back… yeah, just a bit. We hit it off… and have this conversation for the next few stops about where I’m from, the weather, layers of clothing, japan, cellphones the us, all kinds of random stuff… it just felt great to be able to speak so much Japanese.
o Following this I arrived back at my hotel just in time to write all of this down… I think I’m going to head off to this park by my hotel… which no doubt will be extremely hot and I’ll die of lack of water hahaha, I’m not too worried.
{ July 25, 2007 @ 10:42 pm }
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• Morning
o I take back much of what I said yesterday. I think that I just got off on the wrong foot in Osaka… probably just the fact that the portion of town in which I’m situated seemed so sketchy just didn’t bode well with me. Yet, what the town has in sketchiness, the hotel makes up with the quality of people. I’ve met a guy from Australia, 3 guys from korea, and 3 girls from korea. Everyone has been really nice and helpful and clearly just looking to have a good time. I was using the showers this morning and I find it’s such a freeing thing to not have to worry about what you look like. The showers here are basically a lot of shower heads on the far side of one wall and on the other side is a large bath for soaking (not for cleaning). You shower yourself off, and soap yourself off and thien just like the hotsprings you soak for a bit. It’s relaxing and very freeing because everyone is naked, so you don’t think anything of it. Anyway, wearing clothes doesn’t change how we look underthem haha, so we might as well get used to how we look. I’m going to go in search of breakfast (not really sure what the menu is this morning… I’m going for a rice ball maybe and some pocari swear (ion refilling drink…tasty)… and then shopping in a less sketchy district.
• Shopping
o I think I’ve figured out what I don’t like about Osaka… I don’t like the fact that it’s really complicated to navigate. In Tokyo (for the one day I was there) I had no trouble getting places… but in Osaka it’s rather difficult. Yet, I’ve come to the conclusion that Osaka is not as good as Tokyo, but not a bad place either. I went to Shinsaibashi to go shopping and when the 3 hours or more was over I came out with a pair of pants, a vestish thing, and a shirt. Together the cost was about $95, so I think I’m doing pretty good… my guess for how much the jeans would cost was around $80, so I’m def beating my estimate. After shopping and probably losing about 5 pounds in sweat I decided that the best way to fix this loss of body fat was to go eat something. I went to this hotel restaurant where I was about to get a lunch special for about $12 that was delicious. I honestly can say I don’t know what was in it other than soba, random vegetables, and random fish. I really have no idea, but it was delicious except for one little bowl of something. The American menu they had looked more expensive and didn’t seem as tasty, so I decided to risk it and order something on the Japanese menu… def a good choice.
o Finding the subway to get back to my hotel was a bit of a chore, but people are so kind, so once I had a few sets of directions I was able to find it easily. I have a million pictures to post online, so now I must go.
• Dinner etc
o I was debating going to a club this evening, but I never got around to it… instead I decided to go to a bar and maybe meet random people… the plan didn’t really go as planned. I went to a bar in the shinsaibashi district called penguin something. It was hilarious… they had the penguin movie (I forget the name) playing on a tv… some trance music… an attractive bar tender, but I just ordered a rum and mused about the day. I wasn’t feeling anything, so I decided to head to another bar and see if there was anything more interesting, but I didn’t spot anything good. Thus, I headed to a Korean barbecue place which was rather fun. You got your food uncooked and then you cooked it over the coals… I just ordered a bit of meat and rice and a beer. I’m really a fan of Japanese beer. It’s rather cheap and much better than what you find at college haha. I headed back at around 12.
{ July 25, 2007 @ 12:26 pm }
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• Morning
o As per usual I woke up rather early this morning (around five)… I really need to fix this habit, because while I enjoy waking up and seeing the sunrise and taking a walk, I could really use the sleep for the long days that I have planned. Luckily though, I managed to use the time to catch up with friends and to post a few more pictures online, so it wasn’t all a waste. Also, I managed to use the onsen (hot springs) at the ryokan one last time and that was amazing. I don’t think I’ve described exactly how the Japanese onsen work before, so here goes. First thing you have to realize is that you are expected to be naked. I think the point of this is that the onsen are meant to bring the people in them to a sort of peaceful state and any objects that could interfere are meant to be left at the door. Clothes are a clear indication of class and as such they have no place at the onsen. Before one can enter, one must first wash them self. This is rather like a shower; you spray water all over your body, soap up, and then wash the soap away. Once you’re completely suds free you may enter the onsen. The onsen is kept at something degrees celius, I really don’t remember, but it’s rather hot… so prepare to enter slowly.
o Following the hotsprings I decided to take my usual walk around Yudanaka (the town in Nagano), which was as usual relaxing, and hunger inducing. I decided to follow up the hunger pains with a drink from one of the many vending machines on the street. Japan really loves their vending machines… and now…so do I. Checking out from the ryokan was easy enough they even gave me a present of some origami. I really don’t know how I’m going to make all these delicate things I’ve acquired last till I get home, but I hope I somehow accomplish it.
• Trains
o I’m going to Osaka today, and that requires a myriad of trains… first I go from Yudanka to Nagano…. Then to Nagoya….then to Shinosaka…and finally to shinimamiya where I’m staying. This takes about 5 ½ hours, but it’s worth it. Osaka is known as the stomach of japan and I plan to make the most of this. Ahh… important to mention: when waiting for my train to Nagoya I stopped at one of the small convenience stores and picked up an Onigiri which I’d never had before. Onigiri are nori wrapped (seaweed) rice triangles. They’re simple, but perfect for a snack or a meal if you have a few. The place I went though had one which at the center there was tuna… and it was delicious. I’m going to get a few more when I finally end up in Nagoya… this train ride is 170 minutes… luckily I got a good seat, the scenery is beautiful and so is the girl sitting next to me… so no complaints. The train I’m on is called “shinano” which became abundantly clear to me when the announcement inside the train switched to English and referred to it as “our shinano.” Engrish is amazing and I really can’t get enough of it. Also, going through the mountains of japan by train is the way to go. Sure… it takes a while to get from place to place, but you can’t beat the scenery and there’s even a little snack lady who comes around with all sorts of tasty looking food and drinks. I’m sipping on my milk tea at the moment, so I’m satisfied, but were that not the case I have no doubt in my mind I’d be fumbling with my Japanese to get something of the cart. Ah, time for a nap.
• Osaka
o Ok… getting into Osaka took a while… but it was rather a let down. The high point in the journey was taking the wrong bullet train and not having to pay for it because I was so nice to the women who was going around checking tickets… the usual. Anyway, arrived in Osaka and it turns out my hotel is located in the fucking sketchiest district ever. Tons o’ homeless people and old people and basically very few young people… not so amazing. And I’m here 9 nine days… I plan to spend only 8 hours here a day… sleeping… if I’m not clubbing or otherwise occupied. I really should just have booked a capsule hotel in the city lol… this place is kinda shitty. The room is fine I guess, but I just don’t like the location. I ended up going to the tenjin matsuri festival which was rather fun… I swear there were 50,000 people atleast. A hundred boats proceded through the harbor… a huge procession on the streets…tons of food that I didn’t eat (including octopus balls)… Yet, the best part wasn’t really the festival. I met this guy who had lived in new jersey for a year and his daughter (who was probably 8)… we ended up hanging out and he helped me find my way back and it was just nice to talk to him and his daughter was so cute hehe. She drew a picture of me… it was hilarious. I’m still rather bummed that Osaka just isn’t what I thought it would be. I envisioned another Tokyo, but without Tokyo… basically just misnamed. Osaka is nice and no doubt has enough food to last me for years, but I’m not feeling amazed as of yet.
o A note on couples: maybe it’s just after going to brandeis where the average couple which consists of .. a) a rather sketchy jewish guy and b) an annoying jewish girl who for what she lacks in substance makes up in cup size. Now this may be a bit of an overstatement, but there is some truth in it. Ok… my point is that couples at Brandeis are usually not something you’d see in magazines. The exception to the rule is if you’re asian whereas most asian couples are generally attractive. The thing that you see in japan (and surprisingly Osaka is no exception) is that there are couples everywhere and they’re both attractive. It’s a bit lonely at times. I’ll leave on that sublime note. I’m going to go find food, hopefully free drinks and then sleep for a while.
