Nippon Adventures of Miss K

Last day of Tokyo

2006-08-17T05:05:00.000-07:00

Last day of Tokyo we joines up with wonderful Kanke, Yusuko and Mari and had dinner, and then went to see the Prada house by night, just to end up att Office having a beer there! Thanks for making it a memorable last night!

Untill next time, time will tell where! Kampai!Construtionworkers on the inside of the Prada house.

Watch your Paws

2006-08-17T04:31:00.000-07:00

Enoshima

2006-08-17T04:26:00.000-07:00

One of the last days we went to Enoshima beach and Kanakura (one of the old capitals). We went there by an omnitrain that looked like this.

Ebisu

2006-08-17T03:45:00.000-07:00

I went to see a bit of Ebisu, a part od town in the west of Tokyo. Found this nice house that is 1. pretty and 2. so typically Tokyo, its slim, small and stands out, and the closer you look the more nice detail you find.Then as usual everything is pretty in Tokyo even this pretty "varumotaggning" (read: where stores get their loads of stuff). The area had quite a few nice restaurants, this one was pretty with the menue. Have a look at how they used the lights as a part of the exterior. And this is how a flower shop should look like!

How to shop!

2006-08-07T16:51:00.000-07:00

Some things in Japan you buy ower the counter, and some not. Example, when you travel by the Metro, you first buy your cupon in a vending machine out side, then you pass the metro gates through putting your ticket in on one side, and getting it back on the other side. Then you need the ticket on the station to get out. Clever. No need to argue. And so its at some food places, and even hotels. Theres a light for what is avaliable. Look close.
Paying for a hotelroom. (sorry the pict, is reaaallly bad)
A food place, with a cupon machine. just hand in the cupon, and Voila, you get your food. Its not gourmet, but its fast.

More stuff request

2006-08-07T16:43:00.000-07:00

Elina requested pictures of more stuff. So here we go! It´s
seen as curtesy to have an outdoor ashtray with you at all times. My friend Gustav told me that people will give you the evil eye if you "just smoke on the street" and thro the rests on the ground. My bad, i dont smoke, but this ashtray was very pretty. Opened and closed.

So much to see, so little Time

2006-08-07T16:06:00.000-07:00

Today i discovered that theres to much to see, to many places yet to go. I wanted to visit my friend Juni from New York/Tokyo brother Ryo in Osaka. But theres no time left. Awww… But im thinking that next time will be better, then there will be more time. One should not stress, its not good for you.

Went to the Doc again the other day, he said that i cant hear on my left ear because i have an nose inflammation now. i didn't know that one could have that, nut nicely enough he stashed me up with some nice stuff to make it go away. I dont think i have ever had so much medication in barley two weeks. And another thing i didn't know was how far you can put stuff up your nose, while Doc was examinating me he put lots of stuff up my nose. It sounds terrible to you i bet, Felix was terrified as i was telling him about it, but it was more like a funny feeling, i was giggling the whole time. It tickled, well Yupp, it did. The Ryoka owner came along to the Doc so he would know where it is, just in case he would have any other guests who need Doc. We talked about starting hotels and the philosopher Khalil Gibran.

Then Felix and i went to Enoshima, the beach, it was nice, big waves and a nice temple island. And we saw mount Fuji in the back ground. Tried taking a photo, but it was to bright, it didn't stick. Some things you just have to remember with your photographic mind, yes yes.

The prettiest show was on the way home, when we took the train to Kamakura station from the beach. For about two stations there were only surfers in the sea. I want to come back there, rent a room and just surf for two weeks next summer.

Felix misses Annika!

2006-08-06T01:34:00.000-07:00

Yes he does!

Happy Happy, Joy Joy! Shimo Katazawa

2006-08-05T19:53:00.000-07:00

This is where i wasted my money. Calmer and had more second hand shops than Harajuku, and lovli little living area, people live in little beautiful houses. If I had the chance to live in Tokyo, this would be the spot! And off course there are lots of nice litte intresting stuff to waste time looking at! Awww…

Bliss! Sushi-rollband!

2006-08-05T19:52:00.000-07:00

Yes yesterday i got what i really wanted, sushi rollband. Bliss ! Im in heaven!

Karaoke-hits

2006-08-04T19:04:00.000-07:00

After the yarn bar we went for a stroll and ended up being picked up by a group of japaneese karaoke loving group of film makers that were brave enought to have us at their company kaoraoke party. Well thats good otherwise the would have gotten lost in the karaoke labyrynth on the second floor. Yes we sang our voices out untill I lost mine. Kayo and Mitu + co, you are brave people and heaps of fun!

Taxi taxi, whatever city you are in you have to try the taxi. We had a orange one and i really wish i would have stayed awake, but i kept nodding away. It was dark when i stepped in to the cab, and it was morning when we arrived back home at Tawamarachi, Asakusa.

The Missunderstanding of the Fifth Floor

2006-08-04T18:45:00.000-07:00

Friday night we had dinner at a local pub, that makes really good food, and serves it on the prettiest plates, watched baseball and drank som beer before goig to a bar a friend recomended that was in Harajuku. It was suppoused o be placed on the fifth floor in a house next to a famous coffe house, and it was suppoused to have yarn in the seling. We didnt find the fifth floor, but we found a bar called, from what we can make out of it, "the missunderstanding of the fifth floor". Excellent drinks and charms(snacks/tilltugg) superfriendly staff and nice drinks! Don´t we just love secret littel bars that we have to find by desription! (thanks Martin) And some places will never be done justice if you take pictures of them, they just have to be seen live.

Home in Tokyo // Tokyo Ryoka

2006-08-04T18:38:00.000-07:00

So now we´re back at the place we stayed at the first night in Tokyo! The nicest ryoka house in tokyo with the friendliest owner that speaks english. The place has only three rooms, and is placed in the nice and quiet backstreets of Asakusa, next to one of the old temples. Nice nice!

Later that day we went out to a DIY yourself store in the suberbs, and i found some great stuff:
1. Working man socks (unfortunately not the boots).
2. Pink Gaffa // Whats a girl without her gaffa? it should be in the survival kit of every girls purse, okay, a mini version anyway.
3. More pens, theese ones are more like ink patrons that happen to have a filt patch to draw with. Nice!

How to live in a Capsule

2006-08-03T20:10:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we got back from Haijijo-Jima to Tokyo and we stayed in Capsule´s! At the Capsule home we also met fabulous Croation architect Vatra tha we hanged out with trying some japaneese candy and having beer on our terrace! Lovli jovli. Kampai!

The Art of Doing Nothing

2006-08-02T06:26:00.000-07:00

Today we practices the art of doing nothing. Well done!

Fishingfood!

Like floating Werthers Orginal.

Today we found a great lunch place! Best Ramen Nudles and Gyosha ive had here, And such a cute place!

Manga anime comics as you wait for your food, such a plus!

Today we got burned like two crabs, red, red…

Walking home.

Home

Island stuff

2006-08-01T17:54:00.000-07:00

Yum Yum

2006-07-31T00:35:00.000-07:00

I havent had this before, that i know anyway. Milky pinapple, yum yum.

Island arrival

2006-07-30T11:17:00.000-07:00

Left side of the island…

…and right side of the island.

Had too see it. Roppongi + Ginza

2006-07-30T10:34:00.000-07:00

Before we went to Hadijo-Jima we to the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi, and then to Ginza, i guess we just had to see it.

I came across a huge road crossing with what, eight crossing when a usual one only has four.

The Hermes house was pretty intresting to, and then after while they started opening up the streets to the crowd becuse of the fire festival tonigt.

And the obligatory "watch the sliding doors…"

I need an Island, Hachijo-jima

2006-07-29T04:42:00.000-07:00

Yupp, were going to the country, this is how it looks now, lets see what it looks like in realty. (yes, we just randomly pointed at a map:)

More stuff

2006-07-29T04:06:00.000-07:00

The toilet is acetually one of the things i just had to see to belive. yes you can put on a flushing sound if you feel like it, or a melody at some places.
Another thing, we went to the Sony House in Ginza, and we (read Felix) really extpected to see a Irobot, (robotdogs), but they were unfortunately out of production. So no robot. But some crabs on the elevator doors.

Sick-girl goes to Posca pen heaven

2006-07-29T04:02:00.000-07:00

Yes, today im a sick-girl-san. Doc told me I have:
- Enkelsidig öroninflamation // A single sided earinflamation
- Enkelsidig halsmandelinflamation. // Throat inlamation

Hey yeah, concidering the cirkumstances i feel very well, im a bit off, but i function. Got my antibiotics, booked some tickets to the island of Hajijojima and went to Harajuku. Found Posca Pen heaven, and bought more than i ca carry home. I cant be that ill.

Functinality above all

2006-07-27T18:31:00.000-07:00

Functionality is stuff that makes you feel smart, not silly. so even if im in a country with signlanguage remarkably different from my own i can still figure stuff out. Jepp, the Japaneese are not only brilliant at tachnology, but good at making people understanding it, a bleesing for us turista-sans.

Big is Back 2

2006-07-27T17:59:00.000-07:00

Awww, thats what I call adorable!

Big is Back

2006-07-27T17:56:00.000-07:00

So big is back, everyone had Big phones now. I found a really nice piece, too bad they dont do european versions here.

Swedish… do you know…

2006-07-27T17:42:00.000-07:00

So I meet Alex and Tobi, and they wonder if i know the Swedish Ghost Rider. Well, nope, but now i do. (I had no idea this is what Sweden was famous for, but nice to have your values re-evaluated).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrYk2FylxfY&search=ghostride

Loud and clear

2006-07-27T17:37:00.000-07:00

Small in Japan, Shinjuku, Tokyo

2006-07-27T17:17:00.000-07:00

And here´s the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.

Big, huge and enormous houses in Tokyo. They make you realize what a little piece of shit you really are.

Wierd Stuff, Akihabara, Elecktric City, Tokyo

2006-07-27T17:13:00.000-07:00

Of all the wierd stuff, here´s some more. (Yes, those are usb´s)

The Seven Eleven, no, Seven - I Holdings

2006-07-27T17:10:00.000-07:00

So the Seven Eleven in Japan is not working out that good, so the investment company I Holdngs bought some of it, an this is how it it looks now.

Memorialstamp

2006-07-27T16:59:00.000-07:00

So we should have theese in Sweden too, memorialstamps, that toursitsa-sans can collect in their memoars. Its such added value!

Effective food

2006-07-27T16:48:00.000-07:00

So here´s some effective food, vitamin and fiber jelly. Welcome to the future.

Everything is cute in Japan

2006-07-27T11:55:00.000-07:00

Everything is cute in Japan, I think that im gonna end upp with a overweight luggage home. Anyway heres some of Asakura, Tokyo where we live at the moment.

Jetlagged in Japan

2006-07-27T11:48:00.000-07:00

So one day we just figured we should go to japan. We bought some tickets and went. Here are some pictures and thoughts.

Heidi and Felix