tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65701520851309319032024-02-07T01:43:36.984-07:00Aya's Super Awesome Adventures in JapanPoint and laugh as I document my stupid adventures in Japanese travel.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570152085130931903.post-35901473555540904762014-12-29T16:28:00.001-07:002014-12-29T16:28:34.837-07:00BEST OF - Akihabara<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was originally going to call this a series, but... Well, we'll see how that goes. This is a way for me to exercise my blogging power and summarize stuff for people who don't want to read through my posts to find stuff at the same time. I don't like to choose favorites most of the time, but it's kind of hard to think of any place quite as wonderful as Akihabara. As the nerd capital of the world (that's what I'm calling it) it is a perfect place for someone like me.<br />
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Part of what makes Akihabara so great is its wackiness. I like to think of myself as a unique person who likes unique things, and Akihabara sure is that. While I was in Akiba, I saw:</div>
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A man walking ducks.<br />
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A hummer carrying a couple of statues endowed with chair-phalli.<br />
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Lots of itasha.<br />
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Cosplay.<br />
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Walls plastered with ero-game advertisements.<br />
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Maids from maid cafes, waving potential customers in.<br />
Okay, you probably have to really squint to see the maid in that picture. Truth be told, they didn't really like having their pictures taken. I get the feeling many aren't exactly proud of their job, or perhaps they were told to behave that way by management. Either way, I didn't take many pictures of them.<br />
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Super Potato</h2>
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What I was really framing in that shot was Super Potato, one of the most famous (and most expensive) retro video game shops in all of Japan. There are several strewn about Japan, but the one in Akiba is the largest of them all as far as I know.<br />
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There are 3 floors packed with all manner of retro video gamey goods, from Game and Watch handhelds to guide books and magazines dating back to the '80s to local and imported cartridges and discs of all older generations of consoles.<br />
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They also had gaming-related merchandise, 8-bit chiptunes playing over the speakers, and consoles set up for testing and demoing. In fact, the entire upper floor was an arcade, with a small candy shop, a full size statue of Snake, and retro games galore.<br />
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The Product</h2>
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There are a few things about Akihabara that will really make or break the experience for a person. How nerdy are you? How much anime have you watched? Are you willing to throw away a little pride to put that figure on display in your room? Can you read Japanese?<br />
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I can imagine one who lacks enthusiasm about all nerdy things "not getting" Akiba. But there is a boat load of stuff to see, buy, and admire in general there. And there is variety.<br />
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Posters.<br />
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Yo-yos.<br />
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Military stuff, for that lovely crowd.<br />
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Train... sets?<br />
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Turntables...<br />
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Actually, those last two pictures are from the same store, which, while lacking the simple charm that the smaller stores on the main street of Akihabara have, is pretty much a one-stop-shop for all manner of technology and nerdy things and pretty much everything else, too. That store is Yodobashi Camera, another chain store whose prices aren't phenomenal, but selections are.<br />
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Yodobashi Camera</h2>
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Yodobashi Camera is absolutely massive. And they have everything.</div>
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I live in backwater, isolated Utah, so a store that carries computer components is already an unheard-of commodity, but to see them in a multi-story department store like this is even more amazing. An entire half of a floor was dedicated to parts like these, and that may not sound like much, but you have to understand just how massive Yodobashi camera is first. Half a floor is probably an entire city block.</div>
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True to their name, they do have cameras, and lots of them. An entire floor is dedicated to camera-related stuff. I could see myself going broke here if I was a camera nerd. Luckily, I'm largely satisfied with my high-end point-and-shoot.</div>
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And of course, it wouldn't be an "everything" store without figures of cute anime girls. Unlike most places in Akiba, though, everything is first-hand, brand new, so prices were a little outrageous at times.</div>
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They even have a section labeled for Kotobukiya figures. Kotobukiya is another chain store, which could be found just a couple blocks away from Yodobashi, so I thought this a little strange.</div>
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Kotobukiya</h2>
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Kotobukiya was one of my favorite places, because they seemed to have a higher density of stuff I cared about than other stores. I don't know why.</div>
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They had an entire section devoted to Kyoto Animation, which was awesome, but also irked me a little, because the selection was way better than the actual KyoAni shop, which I went to back in Tokyo nearly a month prior.</div>
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Their stock wasn't limited to anime stuff, though. There also had Star Wars figures...</div>
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And Alien-inspired chopsticks, because why not?</div>
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Akihabara</h2>
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Akihabara is a beautiful place. Perhaps the vibrant colors and glimmering lights of commercialism aren't to everyone's taste, but I constantly felt lucky just to be there, surrounded by everything I love.</div>
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On Sundays, the street is closed off and turned into an open plaza where pedestrians can freely walk.</div>
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Some of the best times I had in Akiba were just the result of wandering the streets, in and out of stores. The first time I really visited on a Saturday, I was presented with this:</div>
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On the side of the street, sellers without shops had setup tents and laid out blankets or tarps to sell their supply of anime goods, among other things.</div>
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Halfway through, I came across this display of T-Shirts. After having a conversation with the owner (he wanted me to join his soccer team or something), I bought a couple of his T-Shirts. They aren't Japanese-made, but I still treasure them as an awesome reminder of my adventures in Akiba. This was one of two T-Shirt stores I came across. The other was inside a building near Mandarake.</div>
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As much as I loved their T-shirts, I just couldn't justify spending the money on them. Most of them were 45 dollars, although there were some cheaper ones. If I could go back and convince myself to buy that Jet Set Radio T-shirt on display in front of the store, I would.<br />
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I spent a month and a half in Japan, and I had lots of fun. I made many mistakes, good and bad. I learned many things. It took me more than a year to finish this blog.<br />
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So, what do I have to show for this? What will I do differently next time?<br />
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First of all, this blog. Next time I go to Japan, I am going to take <i>less</i> pictures. That's right, <i>less</i>.<br />
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Why? I know not many of you have actually been reading my blog, but for those of you that have, you probably had to wait a long time for the page to load. You probably saw my posts as little more than a slideshow with some captions, because that's basically what they were.<br />
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I want to focus on quality, instead of quantity. I'm not going to let the pictures tell the story for me. I want the text to be the part of the post you look forward to. And you know what else? I want to spend less time behind the camera and more time experiencing. So expect less, better pictures in my coming posts.<br />
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Next thing, is updates. It took me a year and a half to finish up a month and a half's worth of posts. I'm not going to promise I will update in real time, like I started to back in June of 2013. But I do want to have these posts out in a timely manner, and I'm actually going to spend some time working on them in Japan. I won't have to worry about school or social obligations, since I'm going 100% solo next time, so I'll bring some paper and jot down ideas on trains, and at night before I go to bed, I will pump out some solid material on the good ol' laptop.<br />
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In short, this blog will be funnier, more detailed, updated more frequently, and just better thought out, overall.<br />
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Okay, so I'm not going to go into too much detail about what I'm doing specifically during my next trip to Japan because, well, I don't really know that myself yet. However, here are the fundamentals:</div>
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<li>I am going to Japan for 3 weeks in August.</li>
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<li>I am going to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comiket">Comiket</a>.</li>
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That's about all I know for sure. I'm watching airline ticket prices right now, and once I get that figured out, the real planning will begin.</div>
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Next, I would like to summarize the things I did last time that I will most certainly NOT do this time, and vice versa.</div>
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I am going to streamline my packing. I have purchased a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B60J6EO">new carry-on bag</a>, which is definitely a step up in quality from my old one. It's got lots of nifty features, and hopefully will be more convenient to pack than that cheap green thing I brought last time. I also now have a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Timbuk2-Commute-TSA-Friendly-Messenger-Bag/dp/B0080B834Q">Timbuk2 Commute</a>, which will serve as my "personal item" as well as my general use bag for walking around Japan. It has some nice design quirks that will make it easy to carry around and use in general.</div>
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Part of the reason I went with the messenger instead of the backpack is just for looks. The messenger bag style is very popular in Japan, and backpacks are kind of clumsy and not ideal for navigating tiny corridors in crowded shops.</div>
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I'm not bringing any pants. I know what you're thinking. "Daniel, you have to wear pants in public!" This is true. I will be wearing shorts. Cotton shorts, or canvas shorts. The bulky denim is staying home.</div>
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I'm not taking anything "just in case." For instance, a swimsuit? Screw that. If I need one so badly, I'll just eat the cost of buying one there. I am following this rule for many things like that. No extra shoes, no soap or shampoo (hotels always have that), no extra shaving razors.</div>
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I will try to bring disposable stuff instead of meaningful stuff. One of my biggest problems I had, especially towards the end of the trip, was finding space in my luggage for the evidence of my rampant consumerism. If I have a bunch of cheap clothing items I'm willing to get rid of, it will really make things easier for me. I'm thinking cheap cotton socks, T-shirts I don't have much emotional attachment to, boxers approaching the end of their life, etc.</div>
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A lot of these tips will net me extra space, which I will use for packing materials. Haphazardly wrapping all of my precious souvenirs in clothes and hoping they don't get destroyed is an affair I'd like to avoid. I'm going to bring a poster tube, padding, and tape. Cardboard and bags also came in handy when packing stuff last time, but I'll just get those from a stores in Japan.</div>
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In addition to these packing ideas, I'm going to try and meet some goals. First and most importantly, I will keep every receipt, and write down everything I buy. This is almost entirely for customs. Instead of it being a nasty surprise at the end of my trip, it will just be a well-documented breeze. This will also help me get facts such as dates and prices straight when blogging (don't assume everything I write is 100% true), so it will help you guys, too.</div>
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My last goal is to be more social. I'm talking about going to restaurants, bars, arcades, and just talking to people more in general. I don't regret my meager food-spending habits, but I do regret my reluctance to actually visit a restaurant.</div>
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My next trip is going to be awesome. This blog is going to be awesome, too, and I hope you guys are looking forward to it like I am.</div>
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What's the worst part about going to Japan? The "going to" part. The "going back" part is just as bad, though. Here's how I survived, and, as a bonus, how about a hint to what the future of this blog holds?<br />
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Stuffing the last few trinkets into my bags, I began dragging them towards the train station. The way to Haneda airport required taking the subway below the train station I usually used. It was one of the most confusing paths I ever had to figure out, but once I got onto the platform, the map made everything clear. I guess you could call it the miniboss of the last level of my adventure.<br />
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Aboard the train, there were a few people carrying luggage, but I had the most. I can't imagine the contemptuous looks I would have received if the train was more crowded.<br />
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The train platform was underneath the airport, and was pretty cool looking. There was also lots of Engrish.<br />
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While KIX was very unique and colorful, it was no match for HND in beauty. Huge vaulted ceilings, sleek statues, and interesting architecture surrounded me as I acquired my boarding pass and checked my duffle bag. I just prayed that I would get it back in one piece.<br />
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I stopped by a 7-Eleven to buy my final Japanese meal, for about 4 bucks. Well, most probably wouldn't call it a meal. Up until the very end, I was stingy with my time and money when it came to food. I don't regret it too much, either, because it was delicious. A salmon-stuffed rice ball and sweet azuki bean anpan was pretty much my ideal Japanese food. I was about to board an international plane, so the (not pictured) can of <a href="http://www.tofugu.com/2013/02/08/my-not-so-secret-love-affair-with-chuhai/">Chu-Hai</a> was an important part of my balanced meal, as well.<br />
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After passing through TSA with no problems, it was less than an hour until my flight would leave, so I made my way straight to the terminal, but not before stopping by the restroom. It was probably the nicest restroom I had seen during my travels in Japan. There was even a nameplate for the janitor. I guess they really take it seriously there at Haneda International.<br />
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These were the last glimpses I got of Japan.<br />
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As I sat in my uncomfortable, cramped, pseudo-leather seat, waiting for ascent into 11-hour hell, I examined the meager offerings for sustenance, presumably for maintaining the passengers' sanity.<br />
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When the in-seat entertainment system finally booted up, it hit an error and booted into some kind of Linux shell, complete with a little smiling Tux.<br />
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After several more miserable, coccyx-destroying, mind-numbing hours of twiddling my thumbs and needing to disturb my neighbors just to use the lavatory, I was greeted with some microwave-heated things resembling breakfast items, some orange juice in a shallow pudding container, and some surprisingly fresh slices of assorted melons.<br />
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...And straight into the fire. I had traveled back in time, to just a bit before I left. And, just like a man forced to relive the same painful trial over and over again in his own, exclusive version of hell, it was time to do some more waiting, in another horrible place.<br />
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I spent about 10 minutes figuring out what to declare for customs, and I nervously approached the desk, hoping I wasn't going to have to disassemble my bag. The agent asked me one simple question about the purpose of my trip, glanced at the small book I had written about my purchases in Japan, and just waved me through. All that fuss over nothing.<br />
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They mostly did, but unfortunately, my posters were bent to hell. I felt a little heartbroken, but not too surprised. Next time I'm bringing a tube.<br />
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When my final flight time closed in, I first stopped by the now-open McDonald's for a sandwich. I then checked in, and handed over my duffel bag, but this time I kept the posters hanging out of my backpack. I was still pretty pissed off when the disgruntled check-in agent grabbed it by the "fragile" tag-endowed handle and nonchalantly tossed it over her shoulder in the general direction of the conveyor belt behind her. I've exaggerated a lot in this post, but she really was a piece of work.<br />
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The final flight wasn't really anything special. Two hours of sitting around and I was back in Utah.<br />
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When I first got off the plane and descended the escalator where a bunch of rosy-cheeked sign wielding Mormons were standing to greet their beloved return missionaries, my family was nowhere to be seen. I decided to run over and retrieve my baggage while I waited. As I paced the airport's massive lobby, trying to get a phone or internet connection, I spotted my mother and brother, Dylan waiting at the bottom of the escalator. I decided to take a picture of them.</div>
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She was a little disappointed that she missed the moment of my elevator descent, so I climbed the stairs and redid it so she could get a picture.<br />
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After a short drive home, my journey was undeniably at its end. My parents had created a welcome home poster, complete with Japanese characters they copied from the books on my shelf.</div>
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They also told me that the package I shipped to myself had arrived! I wasn't expecting it for another week or so, but it was already there! After taking a shower and crashing for the first in a series of long, long naps, I pulled all the stuff from my luggage and that box, and put it on display. It still stands as a monument to the greatest time of my life.</div>
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Never fear, though. This blog will be updated in the meantime. I will elaborate on my plans, and I will post compilations of the best parts of my trip. Perhaps you've noticed from my last few posts, but I'm working on my format, and I promise to make it more and more interesting. Any positive criticism would be appreciated.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">T'was my last day in Japan. That fateful Friday, I spent nearly the entire day wandering the streets of Akihabara. This was the end. The grand finale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I gave up my room key to the attendant. Although she intended to just take it directly from me, I insisted on dropping it into the hole designated for checking out after hours, because it seemed kinda fun. It wasn't particularly fun though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I guess I wanted to soak it all in, since it was my last day. It was still a little early, so some places hadn't opened their doors yet. I stopped by a convenient store and got me some of that milky Salt & Litch drink. Yum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were some lines forming outside of the shops. perhaps there was some game or book launching that day. I don't know. Maybe it's like that every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found a Dr. Pepper vending machine. This was only the second time I had ever seen this beverage in Japan. There was also a Steins;Gate promotional sticker on the machine apparently, although I didn't see Steins;Gate until a few months later, so I didn't get that reference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I stopped by Don Quijote again, where the escalators complain about your weight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...And they would rather you didn't sleep in the bathroom stalls.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I stopped by a dollar store on the western edge of the district, and bought a lot of candy, for gifts and personal use. There were some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itasha">itasha</a> parked just beside it, because Akihabara.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I took a closer look at Kotobukiya, as well. Kotobukiya was one of my favorite places in Akiba, because of its in-depth selection of modern anime merchandise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had never been to the second floor before, but there was quite a lot to see. They were selling brand new figures and anime merchandise, which was actually pretty rare for Akihabara (most stores only sold used stuff).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It wasn't just anime merchandise. They had some western figures, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They even had an entire section devoted to Yotsuba&! I love Yotsuba&!, but I don't think I would buy figures. It was still really cool to see the variety, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had only recently discovered the Akihabara "Cultures Zone," and I was sad that I didn't have more time to explore it. Just to the west of the main intersection, Cultures Zone is a huge, 5-6 story building chock full of figures, manga, and all kinds of other awesome geeky stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Feeling pretty depressed about being at the end of the line, I tried to decide what to do with my last few hours before I had to leave. In the end I just went back to Akiba.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Truth be told, there wasn't a lot left for me to do there. But, just like you want to spend those last few minutes talking nonsense with a friend getting ready to depart, I wanted to see my friend Akiba one last time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I did see some weeeeiiird stuff, though. This hummer carrying robots with chair-phalluses was probably an ad for the infamous robot restaurant, which I had only slight desire to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I stopped by Kotobukiya again, and bought a couple of things, because who needs money?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I crossed the street, entered the train station, walked a few minutes across the canal to the hostel to pick up my luggage, and it was just about time for my return trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello folks, it's a long time in the making, but I've finally decided to continue documenting my journey during my last couple of days in Japan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This post begins as a continuation of my last, the day before I left, Thursday. After checking out the kitchen town in Kappabashi, I decided to take a thorough tour of Yodabashi Camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And there were actually people interested in this stuff! I definitely wasn't in Utah anymore!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the other side of this floor, they were selling software, and next to that, books about all kinds of computer-oriented things. I guess the people buying these have never heard of Google.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">True to the store's name, there were many cameras, lenses, camera accessories, lens accessories, and camera accessory accessories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Honestly, Yodobashi Camera is kind of a you-name-it-we-have-it kind of store when it comes to tech. The picture above shows a display of telescopes next to a huge array of fishing rods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They had a larger collection of digital turntables and recording equipment than I'd ever seen in a Guitar Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I spent a great deal of time in the video game section. I was planning to buy some stuff, and I was comparing prices from the Book-Off I'd visited earlier. Since the new was only ~300 yen more than the used version of this game, I opted for the new.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They had a section for western games, but it was barren. Japanese people just don't like the bald space marine, I guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They don't like Xbox much either. There was about one aisle of Xbox 360 games, where there were, of course, no customers browsing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yodobashi Camera is a huge store. It is at least eight floors, and about two blocks on each floor completely packed with electronic gizmos and gadgets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They have non-Apple phones, too, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Outside of Yodobashi camera, there are two 7-Elevens so close to each other that you can literally see one from the other. I only ever went to the one on the right, now that I think about it. More conveniently placed, I guess.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Rest of Akiba</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since my time was almost up in Japan, I decided that I just wanted to crawl Akihabara to my heart's content. I visited my favorite T-shirt store next, although I never ended up buying anything there, since it was so expensive. Maybe next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had done some research about Akiba the night before, So I decided to check out some of the more popular places that I had missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway, that's all for this post. The semester is ending, so I should be able to defeat this beast in the next week or two, depending on my mood. We'll see what happens. I hope you're enjoying it, because I am, and I did.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570152085130931903.post-50339207359399753102014-08-14T14:42:00.003-06:002014-08-14T14:42:50.986-06:00Kappa-Bashi, The Kitchen Town<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first thing I did was take a train down to Ginza, to see the huge Sony Showroom building. This is the place where Sony shows off all of their cutting-edge products. I thought maybe I'd see something I could brag about to my friends, and (The PS4 had just been unveiled at the time).<br />
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I used a really nice Android phone on display to take a picture of the room it was in, as well as myself. I then sent it to my own email using the phone's apps, and then logged out.<br />
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Overall it is a pretty cool building. The first floor is cameras and MP3 players, then cameras, then video cameras, then Televisions, then video games, then computers. The floors aren't set up in the typical floor, flight of stairs, floor pattern. They blend right into each other, in a spiral, with small staircases separating them. The next floor is usually at about chest level, and you go through each floor to get to the next. There were some really cool gadgets there (I especially enjoyed the cameras), but unfortunately there was nothing like a PS4.</div>
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I started to worry that I wasn't going to find what I was looking for. It got to the point where I was about to turn around and give up, but then I realized I was there.<br />
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Kappa-Bashi is a district completely packed with kitchen and cooking-related goods. I had two purposes in coming here. First was to see all of the crazy shops, second was to find a good set of chopsticks to use when I got home.<br />
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I was overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of shops, and the specialty shops that only carried one or two types of culinary trinkets, but were still heavily stocked with a variety of choices.<br />
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I came across this store called the "Kitchen Museum." It seemed to be one of the most popular, and was three stories high.<br />
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The basement was filled with pots and pans of all sizes.<br />
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There were stores specializing in dining furniture.<br />
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There were stores specializing in condiments and seasonings.<br />
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There were stores specializing in disposables and other business-related materials, like signs and decorations.<br />
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Most interesting of all, however, was probably the group of stores specializing in fake food models.<br />
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They were unbelievably realistic. And expensive. I suppose it's worth it to have a permanent display of food that won't go bad.<br />
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I've never been so appetized by inedible objects in my life.<br />
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Before I left, I did buy chopsticks from a chopstick specialty store. I also snapped a shot of this giant chef head, which I didn't see on the way in somehow.<br />
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All of that fake food had made me hungry, so I headed back to my base of operations, Akihabara.<br />
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This is one of the things I regret most about my trip. I didn't really go to restaurants often, because I found it to be incredibly taxing on my social energy, with all of the differences in cultural norms and reactions from the people around me because I was a foreigner. I opted for food at convenience stores most of the time, since that setting was so much less personal. Maybe next time I'll try to step outside my comfort zone a little more.<br />
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On Wednesday the 17th, I visited what is almost certainly the weirdest place in Japan. A park in the remote town of Yoro, called "The Site of Reversible Destiny" is weird in name and in appearance. It's right smack dab in the middle of Japan, so I had to take the Shinkansen to get there. This is where the story of Yoro Park begins.</div>
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I departed at about 7:30, which is a bit earlier than I was used to. When I got to the station at Asakusabashi, it was absolutely packed.<br />
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The train I boarded wasn't quite as crammed as those <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0A9-oUoMug">viral videos</a> would have you believe, but it was certainly the most full train I had boarded in my time in Japan, or in my life. I managed to take a semi-sneaky picture of the situation by planting my camera atop my head. By some stroke of luck, not one person was <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpikingTheCamera">spiking</a> the shot.<br />
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Unlike my stint in the Kansai area, the place I was staying in Tokyo is only one station away from a Shinkansen terminal, so it wasn't long before I was speeding along at 150 mph towards Nagoya.<br />
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Once I had arrived in Nagoya, there were still a few transfers I had to go through with, but nothing too challenging.<br />
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Before I took the final transfer towards Yoro, I left the station and got a snack at the nearby convenient store. I opted for a carton of chocolate... drink (not chocolate milk) and a salmon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri">onigiri</a> roll.<br />
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The station leading to Yoro is not JR-operated, so I had to pay for it, but it was pretty standard fare (no pun intended).<br />
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Yoro station is... odd. I've never seen such a heavily decorated station. The town must have a real positive history with gourds, because there are gourds and pictures of gourds and statues of gourds <i>everywhere.</i><br />
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There's even a display case with the town's name spelled out in gourds.</div>
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I actually had a pretty hard time finding the place. There isn't much around to advertise it, and there are two or three other attractions / amusement parks surrounding it.<br />
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I kept seeing things that looked like they might be the entrance, but upon closer inspection weren't.<br />
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I was shocked when I got to the end of the trail and saw this locked gate, but I breathed a great sigh of relief when I looked to the right and saw a small path into a building that almost looked like an employees-only area, but turned out to be the real entrance to the park. There was a receptionist who seemed really surprised to have somebody show up. I paid the 7 bucks to get in, and she gave me the series of pamphlets and instructions on "how to use" the park. I skimmed over them, but they were ridiculously convoluted and I couldn't be arsed to do any of the things listed.<br />
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There are a few different structures in the park. The first one on the left when you walk in is basically a building, but the floor is wavy, with random walls that vary from ankle to chest height, depending on what part of the floor you're standing on. There was some weird classical music playing while I was there.<br />
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I took a moment to take it all in, because after reading that pamphlet, I was a bit fired up about freeing my mind.<br />
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Even the bathrooms are wonky. The floor isn't quite as wavy, but the style definitely blends right in with the rest of the building.<br />
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In one room, there's a window in the ceiling with all kinds of filth piled up on it. It kind of reminded me of a playground at the <a href="http://www.hoglezoo.org/">Hogle Zoo</a> that I used to play in as a kid, with tunnels and holes where you could poke your head out and see prairie dogs playing in the dirt around you.<br />
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On the other side of the first building is a large pile of jagged rocks, with a pump faucet at the top. There is no path up to the top, you have to climb. Instead of doing so, I moved on to the next building.<br />
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The building is surrounded by huge holes with trees planted at the bottom. It looks like it would be a real pain to climb out, as some of them are very deep, and many of the trees are covered in spider webs.<br />
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The inside of the building is insane, to say the least. it is a labyrinth of a mixture of curvy and sharp-angled walls, with a wavy floor that is transparent in some places, and opaque in others. There is furniture in the building, but it is clipped through the walls like you might see in a badly programmed video game.<br />
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Weaving through the maze created by the walls, beds, chairs, refrigerators and stoves, I found myself popping in and out of the building several times.<br />
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In addition to the tree holes I mentioned earlier, there are trees at ground level, but encased in giant cylinders.<br />
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The furniture in the maze isn't limited to the ground either. When I started paying attention to the ceiling, I noticed that it has just as much furniture, as if somebody had taken a floor from somewhere else and turned it over.<br />
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Leading away from the building is a path at about knee height, carved into the ground and leading up into a huge wall that surrounds the majority of the park. I decided to save that for later.<br />
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Between the first two structures, I noticed something that I had just walked by the first time. At the top of a hill, there is a large stone with trees growing from it, and the kanji from the name of the park carved in scattered locations. I saw a woodpecker in the tree there. I'm <i>pretty</i> sure I've never seen a woodpecker in my life besides this one. It was peckin' away at that bamboo.<br />
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Near a large, open bowl-like area of the park, there is one last "building," but this one doesn't seem as though it is designed to be accessible. There is a wall around it, with a gap large enough to where one could just crawl under, but it looked really dark inside, and I'm willing to bet there are some scary bugs who call it their home, so I decided against it. I even tried pointing my camera in there and taking some flash pictures, but there didn't seem to be anything of interest in those images,<br />
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The other side of the park is a bowl-shaped, almost intangible mess of hills, trees, walls, and mysterious half-sphere shaped objects. These are covered in Astro-Turf to resemble grassy hills, although perched in precarious places that grassy hills could never be.<br />
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I first climbed around the right side of this open "bowl," where I simply found more diagonal hills and tree-holes.<br />
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It was at this point I decided to start filming, but the video didn't come out so well. I apologize for the relative lack of quality in the next few pictures, as they are just screenshots from said video. The knee-high paths I mentioned earlier lead into the wall of the "bowl." The path itself was actually not all that interesting. If anything, it was a bit treacherous. I had to lean over to make it through a few tunnels, which had a few spider webs and bugs crawling in them.<br />
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I actually encountered a couple of visitors on the way back. They were the only ones I saw during the trip. Now that I think about it, the entire town felt deserted. The people I ran into in the tunnel and the lady at the ticket office were the only humans I recall seeing the whole time I was in Yoro. It was kind of nice being so isolated, actually.</div>
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Before I ended my campaign in The Site of Reversible Destiny, I had one last place to check out. I carefully descended the steep hill into the bottom of the "bowl."<br />
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What I found down there was more of the same, but not in a bad way. The maze-ish theme of the park continued in the very bottom, this time with walls at just the perfect height to trip somebody who isn't paying attention. This area seemed a lot less traveled, with lots of weeds and even scarier bugs.<br />
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At this point, I had seen all of the park, so I said my last goodbyes to the strange, strange place.<br />
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On the way back to the station, I saw two odd outdoor restrooms. The first appeared to have both male and female markers on it, and the second was completely open to the point where you could see right in to the urinals from the sidewalk.<br />
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I tried once more to get a photo of Mount Fuji, but that has got to be the world's shyest mountain. Once again, it was concealed by the clouds. I couldn't even see its silhouette this time.<br />
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I used a toilet on the Shinkansen for the first time that day. It's pretty much the same as an airplane restroom, including the feeling of being rushed out so that everybody else can use it. The biggest difference is how spacious it is. You could probably fit two or three airplane lavatories in the room on that train.<br />
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When I arrived back in Tokyo, I visited Akihabara as usual, but I had an objective. Since there were only two days left before my departure, I was able to accurately assess my finances and decide that I could afford a Japanese 3DS! I thought about getting a 3DS XL (called the LL in Japan), but it was more expensive and didn't come with a charger, which further increased the price point. Besides, none of the colors were as cool. I bought my first region-locked Japanese game at the same time, <i>Professor Layton VS. Phoenix Wright</i>. Come to think of it, I still need to beat it. Maybe I'll bust it out again soon.<br />
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After wandering around the Kamikura area for a while, I had arrived at the last stop of the day, Enoshima station. Across a long bridge and at the top of an island mountain, there was a certain iconic lighthouse waiting for me. It was time for the climax of my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfen_Lied">Elfen Lied</a> <a href="http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/23/otaku-pilgrimage/">anime pilgrimage</a>.</div>
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As i walked down the tiled path surrounded by gift shops and beach gear-wielding Japanese people, I knew I was approaching a popular attraction. I was headed the right way, for sure.<br />
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When I emerged into the clearing in the buildings near the shore, I could see the island in the distance, and signs pointing me to a tunnel for crossing underneath the busy road.<br />
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On the other side of the tunnel, there were beaches on either side of me. Most of the people who had spent their day on the beach were gearing up to go home at this point.<br />
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Directly in front of me was the bridge leading to Enoshima. Without further ado, I started along the scenic route to the tree-covered island.<br />
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I recognized this location, particularly the other side of the bridge, where cars were passing by at high speeds, as one of the final battle locations from Elfen Lied. That's the main reason I was there, after all. Also, there were dachshunds!<br />
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Unbeknownst to me, there was also a rather famous temple on the island. Actually, that's probably the main draw of the island. Tourists <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-great-kyoto-adventure-part-iii.html">loooooove</a> temples. That being said, there weren't a whole lot of foreigners there. It was mostly Japanese tourists pouring out of the temple towards the bridge. It was getting late, so I was in the minority heading inside. Leading up to the temple, there were many shops and food stands.<br />
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When I arrived at the foot of the first staircase, I knew I was in for a climb. I would have taken the escalator, if I was a square. The trip there was going to be half the fun, so why would I expedite it?<br />
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This sign is pretty interesting. There are supposedly "unlucky ages" which are different depending on whether you're a man or a woman, apparently. I guess I'll be hitting my unlucky age pretty soon. Spooky!<br />
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This shrine was featured in Elfen Lied to some degree, although I didn't recall that, and thus didn't try to get a suitable angle for it. But it's there.<br />
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Outside one of the main temple buildings, which was up a few flights of stairs, there was <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-luckystar-shrine.html">another one</a> of those hoop things. Maybe it's more of a Tokyo thing than a Kyoto thing.<br />
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There was something pretty unique about this temple, almost enough so to get me excited. There was a dragon watching over a pond, and pink <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema_(Shinto)">ema</a>.<br />
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From the level with the temple, I could see the entire bridge, and a great deal of the city I had just explored, and I wasn't even halfway up the mountain yet.<br />
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There was a ramshackle, scary outhouse (although still better than most outhouses in the US), which I was forced to use because my bowels were still <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/06/sick.html">giving me trouble</a>. I think I'll stop right there with the details. Outside the outhouse was a much prettier garden.<br />
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I used a convenient platform designed specifically for taking pictures of oneself to... you guessed it: take a picture of myself!<br />
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Near the top of the stairs, there was a cat perched on a pillar like it owned the place. I actually saw quite a few cats on this island, but they usually ran away before I could take a picture. This one was unfazed by my presence.<br />
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There was a gate near the lighthouse. I had to pay an entrance fee to get in. The sign said "Entry + Lighthouse 500\, Entry 200\," but I asked the gate attendant, and it sounded like the "lighthouse" was only for those who wanted to climb to the top of the lighthouse. I just wanted to see the base of it, so I paid the 2 bucks to get in.<br />
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There was a garden, and a few structures to see, but I just went straight to the lighthouse.<br />
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Under the viewing platform, there were a couple of shops, tables and vending machines. On top of the viewing platform, I found what I had come for.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enoshima Lighthouse</span></b><br />
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The viewing platform from which the lighthouse stands is not only iconic and instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen <i>Elfen Lied</i> or <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tari_Tari">Tari Tari</a></i>; it is surrounded by a beautiful view.<br />
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There was one other person on the platform, with a huge SLR camera. I couldn't help but wonder if her interest was anime-related or not. Probably not.<br />
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I took pictures of the surrounding island, including this cat sitting calmly by a table, despite the people in the seats.<br />
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These scenes perhaps would have been better replicated if I: A. Had reference shots or B. Came at the right time of night. For some reason, however I get the feeling they wouldn't have let me in at the right time of night. At least I got a selfie.<br />
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I'm probably wrong, but the center of this photo with those buildings across the way seem to be where his shot from Tari Tari was taken from. The orange roof and power lines tipped me off.<div>
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After descending from the platform, I decided to get a drink from the vending machine. My beloved "Aqua Bulgaria" drink which I <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/gokurakuji-or-elfen-lied-pilgrimage.html">mentioned</a> in the previous post was in this machine as well! What a great day.<br />
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When I left the gated off area, I found the cat from earlier still on it's perch. It was sleeping so I was able to get a better photo of it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaA_cs4WZHM">Cat. Kitty cat.</a><br />
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I took some more pictures of things I missed as I climbed back down the- Oh my god! Is that another kitty?!<br />
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This one even let me pet it. What a good kitty cat.<br />
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The path to the temple was a lot less crowded on the way back. That cat was still sitting comfortably on its wooden platform, though.<br />
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Instead of taking the same side of the bridge I used to get to the island, I decided to walk in the shoulder lane on the other side of the bridge. It was technically against the rules, but I had seen a couple people do it on the way there, and I could always just play the <a href="http://www.jref.com/forum/all-things-japanese-26/gaijin-card-ethical-19541-print/">gaijin card</a>. As much as I hate the implications of pretending to be stupid and perpetuating stereotypes, I was willing to take the risk.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfen_Lied"><i>E</i><i>lfen </i><i>Lied</i></a> is a dark, creepy anime. Those who have heard of it either love it or refuse to watch it because of its ridiculously high level of gore and shocking scenes. All opinions about the anime itself aside, the animation studio <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMS_Corporation">Arms</a> did a great job recreating the area surrounding Enoshima, such that it took me several hours to get together all of the screenshots and match them up to the mostly haphazard photos I took while I was there. I hadn't seen <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tari_Tari">Tari Tari</a></i> before going to Japan, but it's worth noting that the high school anime takes place in this area as well.</div>
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This post starts with the night of Monday the 15th. I skipped this part before so that I could bring it all together into something more tangible. Monday night, I boarded a train and visited Gokurakuji, but I wouldn't be there for long.<br />
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The vending machine at the station had one of my favorite, but rare beverages. The only place I had seen it before was the vending machine in a dark corner at Shintennoji University, so I was happy to be reunited with the mysterious drink.<br />
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The Enoden line is one of the coolest trains in Japan, and I think trains are stupid. It runs a series of old-fashioned-looking passenger trains through a wild and overgrown series of towns, sometimes surrounded on both sides by the walls of buildings.<br />
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It was aboard this train that I got my first taste of the <i>Elfen Lied</i> pilgrimage. The train was packed, but I could still recognize it from this scene that starts out calm but turns into utter chaos.<br />
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These trains are pretty unique. They also appear in <i>Tari Tari</i> on several occasions. Maybe I'll find some screenshots to compare them with in part II.<br />
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Gokurakuji is a very unique town. It's very small-time, surrounded by groves, temples, cemeteries and overgrown old structures. It's the ideal place for a tourist who doesn't like tourists.<br />
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Plus, you get to take an <a href="http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/23/otaku-pilgrimage/">anime pilgrimage</a>, if you're into that sort of thing.<br />
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I excitedly climbed the steps, readying myself to see the iconic distant beach framed by trees and a long staircase.<br />
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Unfortunately, the temple at the top of the stairs closes at 5:00 P.M. Never overestimate the hours of places in Japan. Especially temples.<br />
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I headed back into the city, feeling a little defeated. I bought a snack to cheer me up. (Actually, I was just hungry).<br />
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Naturally, no day would be complete without a stop in Akihabara. I spent the last couple hours of my day visiting some new places that I was tipped off to by blogs on the internet.<br />
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The best of these was the "Cultures Zone." It's pretty much right smack dab in the middle of Akiba, right around the corner from Super Potato and half a block east of the central intersection, but it doesn't stand out so much as an exciting place to walk into and visit. I was kicking myself for not having visited sooner. The second floor from the top has several figure and toy stores, an army surplus-looking store, and a store that sells all manner of nerdy posters and magazines.<br />
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I got up pretty early (around 8) and <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/clannad-pilgrimage-second-and-shibuya.html">checked out a couple of places</a> before heading right back to Gokurakuji. I apologize for this Pulp Fiction-esque chronology. This time I made sure to get the all-day pass, which stood to save me about 5 bucks worth of Monopoly money.<br />
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Having arrived at what the people in charge of the temple deem a "reasonable" hour, I was able to pass through the gate, walk right past the temple, and drink in this gorgeous view of the ocean.<br />
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I decided that I might as well take a look at the temple, since it was right there. It was a temple, alright. Dragons spitting water, bonsai plants, Buddhist altars... Yep.<br />
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At the bottom of the staircase, I found the cemetery where a fight breaks out between Lucy, Nana, and a SWAT team.<br />
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I took a bunch of pictures, but either Studio Arms changed the styles of the headstones to be respectful, or I didn't manage to get a single angle from the anime. I'm hoping it's the former.<br />
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The closest angle I got was this shot where Lucy notices the snipers camped at the shrine across the street. I went and took a look at the shrine. It was pretty neat, but there again, a shrine is a shrine. I'd been in Japan for nearly two months at this point.<br />
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On the way back up the road, I discovered these stones up against the wall. I'm not sure if they are monuments or gravestones, but they show up almost completely unaltered in the anime, so I'm glad I managed to get at least one angle correct.</div>
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Back towards the station, across from the entrance to the temple, I decided to climb a series of overgrown stairs leading to another cemetary.<br />
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This cemetery was even older. I could tell, not because of the dates on the stones, but because there were parts I couldn't even access due to the paths being overgrown and/or crawling with bugs that I really didn't want to upset.<br />
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Gokurakuji is a very cool place. It really looks like nature is trying to reclaim everything. Untrimmed bushes cover pathways, and forests overflow at the top of stone walls like somebody poured them too high.<br />
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This time, instead of heading back home, I stopped by the beach. Not to swim, but to be an annoying tourist!<br />
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Before I saw the wide open sands covered in happy, swimsuit-clad Japanese people, I came across what might be described as a ship graveyard. I instantly recognized it from Elfen Lied, although there weren't any specific angles that seemed familiar. Most of the old boats, crates and shanties had probably been shifted around by this point, considering the age of the anime, and the animators might have just made up the specific formations in the first place. It was unmistakably the place that inspired those scenes, though.<br />
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The beach itself was, well, a beach. It might have just been the wrong weather/time of day, but it didn't really feel like the place where a naked girl with horns was discovered in <i>Elfen Lied</i>. If anything, it actually reminded me of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinryaku!_Ika_Musume">Squid Girl</a>,</i> with all of the people enjoying themselves and the beach houses.<br />
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There was quite a bit of art on these ramshackle beach houses. I guess the beach bums need to do something to occupy their time.<br />
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I finished taking pictures of everything of interest down by the beach, so I got back on the train, ready to head to Enoshima, where the iconic lighthouse and bridges from the last episodes take place.<br />
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...But that's for next time.<br />
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My goal is to finish all of the posts about my trip before the date passes me up (this post is mostly about the 16th of July, today is the 15th). so I'll try to update again today, if possible.<br />
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Wait, it's Tuesday already? Did I skip something? Yes I did. I'll talk about it plenty in the next post, so don't get too flustered. Today, we're going <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/clannad-pilgrimage.html">back</a> to Hakonegasaki station to see more Clannad stuff, and then the famous crosswalk in Shibuya!<br />
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After doing some internet research Monday night, I discovered that I had <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/clannad-pilgrimage.html">missed something</a> really cool just a few blocks away from the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clannad_(visual_novel)">Clannad</a></i> park: The hill road where Tomoya first meets Nagisa, the hill they climb to school every day!<br />
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I headed north from the station instead of northwest like I had before. There were a lot more houses, and it did have a pretty <i>Clannad</i> <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-know-that-feel-bro">feel</a> to it.<br />
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I found it. It wasn't as obvious as I thought it would be; If I wasn't looking for it I might have missed it.<br />
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Once I crossed the street, and was actually walking along the road, I started to really notice the similarities. It wasn't <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami">sakura season</a>, to be fair, but it's safe to say Kyoto Animation embellished the beauty of the place a little. The road wasn't surrounded by forest, but by houses and walls.<br />
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The road doesn't feel as much like the anime as most of these places do. There were cars coming and going, so walking in the middle of the road was something I had to do carefully and sparingly. Also, the road was perforated with these circle-shaped divots, unlike the flat asphalt of the anime. I would guess this is to help with slipping in snowy conditions.<br />
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I was disappointed, but not very surprised to find that there is no school at the top of the hill. There is a large dirt field, and a building that may be related to one of the nearby schools, but none of them is <i>the</i> school.<br />
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Off to the side of the road there is a nice looking park, but I was more interested in the shrine at the top of the huge staircase.<br />
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At the top of the long, long flight of stairs I found this structure, which I didn't recognize from the anime, but I was told that it appeared during the Yukine story arc. It certainly looks like the same structure, but the surroundings are totally different. In the scene, they were sitting at a table, but I think I recall seeing it around the back of the shrine. I guess KyoAni improvised a bit with that shot. There were a lot more trees at the top of this hill, as well.<br />
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I took a look at a nearby school, thinking that perhaps it is the school from the anime, but it seemed I had seen all I was going to see of this <i>Clannad</i> pilgrimage. Even from the restricted distance, I could tell it was a totally different building.<br />
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It's a little weird to me how closed off schools in Japan are. There are huge walls and fences surrounding them, and signs warning trespassers to not set foot on site. There is usually a main gate with a guard booth. Where I live, pretty much any sap can stroll onto high school grounds, and even elementary and middle schools don't have signs like this. Although I'm sure if you were acting suspiciously, they would investigate, visitors aren't outright banned.<br />
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There were plenty of unique neighborhoods to see, but I had <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/clannad-pilgrimage.html">been here before</a>, so I didn't spend too much time. I had a tourist trap to visit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Japanese people sure come up<br />with some appealing drink names.</i></td></tr>
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I've mentioned before that I hate tourist traps. I don't like being <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-great-kyoto-adventure-part-iii.html">rushed by a crowd</a>, and <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/harajuku-and-toy-store.html">too many foreigners</a> makes being in a foreign country kinda pointless. Truth be told, though, I didn't have a whole lot of places left in mind to visit. I needed something to fill the gaps.<br />
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The crosswalk was only slightly less mundane to me than it likely is to the average Japanese <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaryman">salaryman</a> on his way to work. After all, I was just crossing the street. I took a seat upstairs in the Starbucks on the second floor and got a nice picture of the action, and then I explored the area to see if there was anything of interest. There wasn't a whole lot. Shopping centers were all a little underwhelming after seeing Akihabara.<br />
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There was a bit of interesting art outside of the Shibuya station. Inside the station, there was an ad for a women's manga magazine. Apparently there's a Steve Jobs manga. I'm not really sure what that could be about.<br />
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I was only at Shibuya for an hour, tops. For the last stop of the day, I was going back to the place I went Monday night. Read about Gokurakuji and Enoshima, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfen_Lied">Elfen Lied</a> pilgrimage, in my next post.<br />
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On Monday, I was surprisingly short on ideas for where to go. I had some plans for later in the week, but I was waiting for a more positive weather forecast. I decided to reach for something a little more obscure, because obscure things are usually the best things. This was no exception.</div>
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On my way to this remote town, I had a pretty good view of the sky tree for the first time. A normal tourist might have said, "bingo," and just headed there, but I was in no mood for another tourist trap like <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/harajuku-and-toy-store.html">Harajuku</a>.<br />
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Where I was headed was way out in the boonies. You could tell a place was unpopular when there was no English translation around. Actually, I probably preferred these places <i>because</i> there was so little English.<br />
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Branching off from the Goi station, there was a little station that operated the Kominato line. The ticket machine was unlike any machine I had seen, and instead of ticket gates there was an attendant sitting at a folding table who checked it. When the train arrived roughly 10 minutes later, I was able to get aboard, where I had to wait a few more minutes before it left. Instead of the usual air conditioners, there were rotating fans on the ceiling.<br />
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The train was quite slow, much like the train I took to <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/migration-and-k-on-pilgrimage-part-1.html">Toyosato</a>. The tree-covered hills were so reminiscent of something from a Ghibli film that I started to wonder if there was some kind of place to visit nearby that was analogous to <i>My Neighbor Totoro</i>.<br />
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After about half an hour, I arrived at Kazusaushiku station, where I found what I was looking for. In Kazusaushiku station, there is a small waiting room that serves as the primary location for a scene from <i>Yuru Yuri</i>, where Akari misses the train and has to wait for the next one while all of her friends go to the pool. I told you I was going for obscure.<br />
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There were even mosquitoes! Just like the anime! I don't think I've ever been so amused to see large mosquitoes.<br />
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I sat in the room for a few minutes, hoping the people in the station would leave so that I could geek out without being stared at like the weirdo I am, but they didn't leave, and some older lady came and sat in the room with me, so I decided to go wander for a bit. The next train wasn't for another hour, anyway (which also happens to be pretty central to the plot of that scene).<br />
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Outside the small station in the small town, there was an arch, which was also featured in the anime at least twice, one of those being when Akari steps outside the station to buy a drink from the machine.<br />
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There really wasn't much to see in the town, but I just kept walking. I was determined to make something of the trip. Part of me thought that maybe there would be something else familiar from <i>Yuru Yuri</i> if I <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception">went deeper</a>.<br />
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As I got closer to the mountains, my surroundings became more rural.<br />
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This was probably the closest I ever came to exploring the wilderness in Japan. I'm not the biggest outdoors person, but it was pretty refreshing to be so far from the city.<br />
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There was an excellent view of the scenery from this platform. There were also several interesting spiders on it. I decided not to stick around for too long.<br />
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When I had my fill of the tree-covered hillside, I headed back into town.<br />
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The train station was now empty, so I was able to get a couple of shots that were impossible before. I couldn't remember the angles or positions from the anime, but taking pictures was only accessory to actually being there. Even a relatively insignificant scene like this is exciting and surreal when it is a scene from fiction that crosses over into real life.<br />
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I had gotten so caught up in touring the city that I had actually missed the next train, so I crossed the tracks to explore the other side.<br />
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Right next to the tracks was a temple and a cemetery. I somehow managed to not notice it before just then.<br />
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There was also a convenience store just down the street, which was convenient, because I was hot and a cold drink sounded great. I wasn't planning on getting soda until I saw this can of soda with <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica">Puella Magi Madoka Magica</a></i> branding on it. If you've read much of my blog, then you already know I'm a sucker for this kind of thing. I grabbed a can with my favorite character on it.<br />
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There wasn't a whole lot to see on that side of the tracks, and the train was almost there, so I made my way back.<br />
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On my way back towards Tokyo, I got off the train in Chiba. This was actually the only time I coincidentally happened upon an <a href="http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/23/otaku-pilgrimage/">anime pilgrimage</a>. On the way to the remote <i>Yuru Yuri</i> town, I saw the iconic monorail from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore_no_Im%C5%8Dto_ga_Konna_ni_Kawaii_Wake_ga_Nai"><i>Oreimo</i></a>. I knew it was the right one because I had heard that it was in Chiba before.<br />
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I thought about taking a ride on it, but it was a little expensive, and I didn't really have a destination in mind. I instead opted to walk a couple blocks of the city streets.<br />
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I saw the train pass by, and it actually had art from the show plastered all over it. This was unsurprising, as the second season was airing at the time. And I was missing it, because I had no way of watching it in Japan. T_T Oh, the irony.<br />
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Peanut seemed to be a recurring symbol in that part of town, for some reason.<br />
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I did have a plan, however, and I couldn't be wasting too much time in a place with no direction, and no real objects of interest. Before I end this blog post, check out this juicy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish">Engrish</a> I found in a bathroom inside the station before I left:<br />
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After visiting the <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/clannad-pilgrimage.html"><i>Clannad</i> park</a> at Hakonegasaki, I took a different series of trains to a different destination. I read that Harajuku was a great place to see people wearing strange outfits and even cosplaying on Sunday, so I decided to stop by there. What I got was mostly disappointing.</div>
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Harajuku was <i>packed.</i> It is a tourist attraction, and an even bigger one than I thought. It was certainly colorful, and all kinds of crazy, but it wasn't the kind of crazy I was looking for I guess, because I didn't enjoy myself much.</div>
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Takeshita Street is the main attraction in Harajuku, and that's where I stopped first. It is essentially a huge mall, with lots of shops filled with eccentric clothing and normal clothing. I couldn't help but compare it to Akihabara. Where Akihabara had something interesting waiting inside every single shop around every single corner, Takeshita Street was just a really packed, mildly Japanese version of an American mall, with practically nothing but clothing on sale.<br />
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While I was taking a picture of one of the shops, an employee came out with her arms crossed above her head. I guess that meant she didn't want pictures taken, so I omitted that one. Her loss. My blog is <i>Totally Awesome!</i><br />
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As you can see in these pictures, there is a lot of diversity. I never went anywhere in Japan that had so many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijin">gaijin</a>. I kind of liked standing out from the crowd, and I didn't like hearing languages other than Japanese, so I guess that also contributed to my aversion to the place.<br />
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Apparently the crepes in Harajuku are renowned, but I didn't know this while I was there. Even if I had known, I probably would have just passed. I had better things to do than wait 20 minutes for a crepe.<br />
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I seemed to be at the end of the street, but I wasn't really upset. There were a couple other places in Harajuku I wanted to see before I left.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I guess this is the <a href="http://www.nicovideo.jp/">Nico Nico</a> (Japan's YouTube) headquarters.</td></tr>
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There were some interesting shops on this street. I wasn't personally interested in most of them, since they appeared to be clothing stores, but the buildings were cool-looking.<br />
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I stopped in a convenience store and got myself a watermelon popsicle. It had little chocolate chips as the "seeds." I was starting to think this would be the best part of the trip. But I hadn't seen Kiddy Land yet.<br />
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I crossed the street via a bridge covered in graffiti. The street was pretty wide, but most of the traffic was pedestrians, not cars.<br />
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Next to a Shakey's Pizza, there was Kiddy Land, a gigantic toy store.<br />
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True to its name, I felt the kid in me getting wildly excited as I toured the 4 or 5 floors of the building. All kinds of toys, western and eastern, were on display.<br />
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There was a pretty big section devoted just to Studio Ghibli merchandise.<br />
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I saw all manner of both toys I had seen and toys I had never seen before.<br />
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An entire floor was dedicated to Hello Kitty and Rilakkuma, a newer. similar fad that is now really popular in Japan. I wasn't horribly interested, but it was mind-blowing to see such a quantity of Hello Kitty merchandise.<br />
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The bottom floor was wall-to-wall Peanuts and Snoopy merchandise. I'm not sure if that was just the special product at the time or if it just so happens to be really popular in Japan. Either way, wow.<br />
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The biggest snoopy plush was probably 5 foot tall and costed over three hundred dollars.<br />
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After spending a bit of time and buying a couple things, I left Kiddy Land, and headed back to the station.<br />
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<br />I thought this store was just unfortunately named, like Hard-Off, but it's... well, <a href="http://condomania.jp/">exactly what it sounds like</a>. If I would have known it was something so funny, I probably would have stopped in. I don't know if it's worth going back to Harajuku for, though.<br />
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I stopped by a restaurant. I would tell you what it was called, but I completely forgot, and somehow managed to take no pictures. Oops. They had a great shrimp burger though. I sure miss shrimp burgers.<br />
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On my way back up the hill to the train station, I was stopped by a couple of missionaries. I couldn't quite tell what religion/philosophy/cult they were trying to sell me on, but it was really hard to shake them without being rude. I was talking with them for probably half an hour, and they told me where I could come for a meeting the next day. Like that was going to happen.<br />
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My final destination for the day was Akihabara, of course. On Sundays, the street is closed off so that shoppers can walk freely between the buildings.<br />
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The street being closed off made for some great photo opportunities, but it was surprisingly unexciting. I think Harajuku had put me in a bad mood.<br />
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Eventually I wandered into a shop that was selling mostly figures. There were a couple of specific things I was looking for to take back as gifts, and it seemed like it would be a good place to find them.<br />
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The top floor was the best. It wasn't the only place I had seen of its kind, but it probably had the largest collection of small figures, all hanging in little bags.<br />
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After I was finished in the figure store, I walked outside to see that it was raining, and the street had been opened back up to traffic. I stopped inside a Lawson to see if the rain would stop after a few minutes, and thought about buying a new umbrella, since I had left my trusty black one back in Habikino. The umbrellas were only 5 bucks, but I didn't want to waste even small change on something that I would only use once and couldn't take home with me. In the end, I just bought something to drink and hustled back to the station.<br />
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When I made it back to the hostel, I changed my clothes, grabbed a loaner umbrella, bought a sandwich and some <a href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=combini+onigiri">nigiri</a> at the 7-Eleven down the street, then spent the rest of my night in the communal living room in the basement on my laptop, planning out the next days' trips.<br />
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My first order of business that morning was to check if I could get tickets to the <a href="http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/en/">Ghibli Museum</a>. The night before I had done some research, and found that you had to get tickets way in advance, as well as where you could order them. Inside <a href="http://lawson.jp/en/store/">Lawson</a> convenience stores, there are terminals for ordering tickets and various other things. I was out of luck, however. The first ticket available was the Saturday after the Friday I would be getting on a plane.<br />
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I jumped on a series of trains headed northeast, until I landed at Hakonegasaki Station. Try saying that five times quickly. There was a map near the exit to the station which gave me a pretty good idea of where the park was. Although I did have <a href="http://galileo-app.com/">my app</a> to show me, it was nice to be reassured. I took a picture, just in case.<br />
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There was some kind of event going on. I've seen it before in manga and anime, but I'm still not sure what it's called. The kids were carrying around a portable shrine.<br />
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The city was very spacious and beautiful. It almost didn't feel Japanese, until I saw a cemetery.<br />
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Eventually I came across this stream surrounded by lush scenery. I was happy that my map was telling me to go that way.<br />
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Just a little ways up the stream, I found the park. It was gorgeous. The trees surrounded the park in such a way that it was easy to forget there were streets and neighborhoods just on the other side.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A Familiar Place</b></span><br />
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Suddenly, I knew exactly where I was. There was no mistaking this pond. I had seen it before many times, in the heart-warming/heart-crushing anime <i>Clannad</i>.<br />
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Much like the rest of the park, every tree, every stone, and every wooden structure was a feast for the eyes. It's no wonder this park was chosen as a setpiece.<br />
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I passed that same cemetery on my way back, so I could tell I was almost there. I was also incredibly hot, so I stopped by 7-Eleven and picked up this ice treat, which seemed to essentially be frozen lemon-lime soda. It was good, though.<br />
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I had seen some pretty good scenery, but it was an overall pretty underwhelming trip. I didn't go straight back home, though. They day was still young. Next stop, Harajuku!<br />
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The time I spent in Akihabara was pure, nerdy bliss. I couldn't go anywhere without being surrounded by all of my favorite things. The first time I got to walk around and explore the hundreds of stores was no exception.</div>
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It was Saturday afternoon, and I was heading back from the Washinomiya Shrine.<br />
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I could tell I was at the Akihabara station because the walls were covered in anime and video game advertisements.<br />
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I was happy to be back in the plaza, where the size of the crowds had increased dramatically. I started by crossing the plaza and climbing the stairs that led to a bridge across the street.<br />
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They were all set up on the sidewalk just east of the main road. I could see the tall buildings covered in colorful ads through the thin alleyways.<br />
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They were selling all kinds of goods. Everything from figures to accessories to clothing was lined up on blankets and tables. I stopped by a stand with a multitude of T-shirts and had a long conversation with the man in charge. He wanted me to promote his soccer team to my foreign friends, and I didn't really have the heart to tell him I have absolutely no interest in sports. Eventually I bought 2 shirts from him. They were both covered in art and hilarious Engrish. I also explained to him what Engrish is, but he didn't seem incredibly amused.<br />
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A couple stands down, I was stopped by a mother and her son while looking at some figures. She talked to me for a long time about pretty mundane things, and her son kept telling her to stop talking because she was "bugging me" and "scaring me off." I can't say he was wrong.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Super Potato</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first place I went was Super Potato. I already documented my visit to the Super Potato in <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2013/06/tennoji-and-nipponbashi.html">Nipponbashi</a>, but this place was a whole different experience.</span><br />
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This place had 4 floors, which made the 2 floors in Nipponbashi pale in comparison. The sheer quantity of wall-to-wall video game merchandise was enough to make a nerd like me salivate.<br />
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The games themselves were amazing, but there was also lots of merchandise. Books, toys, and decorations everywhere I looked. They had demo systems set up, including a Virtual Boy! That's right; I got to try the failure of a predecessor to the 3DS for the first time.<br />
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On the top floor was an arcade, with lots of video game branded candy and beverages on sale. There was also a life size statue of Snake, because why not?<br />
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I thought about hopping on one of the machines, but it seemed like kind of a waste of time, since most of the games there were games I had played before or had easy access to in other formats.<br />
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After buying a couple of things from Super Potato (no games, the games were way too expensive), I crawled the streets some more.<br />
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I found Mandarake, another chain I had visited <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2013/06/grocery-store-trip-wednesday-was-pretty.html">before</a>.<br />
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quijote_(store)">Don Quijote</a> in Akihabara was positively gigantic. At eight floors high, there was pretty much nothing you couldn't buy there. Apparently it was also the birthplace of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48">AKB48</a>, so, if you're looking for somebody to punch in the face for that, Akiba's Don Quijote might be a good place to start.<br />
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Restrooms are really hard to find in Akihabara. Some stores have them, but they are usually well hidden. It seemed to me that the only reliable place to find one was the train station. My body still wasn't at 100% from <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/06/sick.html">the time I got sick</a>, so this was a bit of a problem for me. Anyway, I left the station from the other side of the tunnel, and I came out in yet another huge, densely crowded part of Akihabara.<br />
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There I found a whole new slew of otaku-oriented stores. I had heard of Gamers, and it was actually a place I wanted to check out, so I went in.<br />
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"Gamers" wasn't actually a very fitting name for the store. It did have a floor with games, but it was mostly manga and anime goods, much like Animate. On my way down, I noticed there was some kind of event going on one of the floors, but it was closed off. I think it was a <i>Yuru Yuri</i> related event, because I ran into a <a href="http://yuruyuri.wikia.com/wiki/Kyoko_Toshino">Kyouko</a> cosplayer, and a pretty good one, at that!<br />
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The next noteworthy place I discovered was Kotobukiya. As far as anime-related merchandise goes, I don't think anywhere else came close. They actually had a better collection of Kyoto Animation merchandise that <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-great-kyoto-adventure-part-iv-kyoani.html">the KyoAni store</a> did!<br />
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I kept wandering, enjoying the sights and sounds. It was a pretty crazy atmosphere. I even... is that guy taking ducks for a walk?<br />
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I decided to take a look at Mandarake, because if the Super Potato in Akihabara was that much better, that giant black obelisk of a building must be too.<br />
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It was quite a large building. There were 8 floors, if I remember correctly. The first floor was dedicated to trade-ins, and there were two floors in the middle exclusively dedicated to porn. No joke. (There was a floor for male-oriented and a floor for female-oriented content)<br />
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Just like Den-Den Town, around 8, all of the shops began to close up. Many were open later, I'm sure, but I decided to take some pictures of the beautiful lights contrasted against the night sky, then I called it a night and headed back to the Khaosan Ninja.<br />
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A night's sleep had done a lot for me, and I was more than ready to face a new week, on my own in Tokyo. There were lots of places to check out, but for my first trip, I chose the Washinomiya Shrine, just a little ways north of Tokyo. That's right, that's the<i> Lucky☆Star</i> shrine. Another day, another anime pilgrimage!</div>
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I started by walking to Akihabara, because I couldn't wait any longer to see it, and I wanted to see how far of a walk it was. As I mentioned in one of my first <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-places-i-will-go.html">posts</a>, the dorm I was staying at was extremely close to the nerd mecca.<br />
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Walking around in Tokyo is definitely a whole different ball game than Osaka, or even Kyoto. There weren't a whole lot of people in the streets at this time of the morning (around 9:00), but the sheer quantity of tall buildings and the narrow streets practically made me feel like I was in a different country.<br />
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There was a lot more English in Tokyo, too. Foreigners were not nearly as uncommon a sight, signs were translated, and shopkeepers didn't seem uncomfortable when I approached them.<br />
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The first thing I came across in Akihabara was the huge Yodobashi Camera department store. It wasn't open yet, but people were queuing up to get in.<br />
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I then passed underneath a bridge near a 7-Eleven, and came out to a familiar sight. The iconic giant screen I had seen in several anime shined high above traffic, where I of course saw an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itasha">itasha</a> stopped at an intersection.<br />
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I saw the Excelsior Caffe on my left as I passed underneath a pedestrian bridge towards the main street.<br />
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What I saw around the corner was a magnificent showcase of commercialism and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku">otaku</a> goodness. There was no way to escape the bright rainbow of colorful advertisements glaring from every direction, but I had no intention of running.<br />
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As glorious as it was, most of the shops were still closed, and I had places to be. I circled around the block and found myself back in the opening where I had previously emerged from the tunnel. I would be back later, but first, I was headed to Washinomiya. I turned my back on Akihabara and showed the gate attendant my JR pass.<br />
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Washinomiya station wasn't very far. I only had to make one transfer, and it was the next stop from there.<br />
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When I climbed the stairs, this thing caught my eye pretty quickly. It had lucky star characters all over it. It was nice to be reassured that I was in the right place.<br />
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Using the map on my iPod, I guided myself to the shrine. I had to turn around once or twice, because the roads' layout wasn't quite what it seemed, but I wouldn't say I got lost.<br />
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For the most part, it was an ordinary shrine. Lots of trees, stone paths, tied up fortunes...<br />
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It was this tree surrounded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema_(Shinto)">ema</a> which really stood out. These were no ordinary ema.<br />
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Gorgeous manga art permeated 80% of the hanging plaques.<br />
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Not just <i>Lucky☆Star</i> art, either. I saw art from several other anime and manga. Most of it was really good, too.<br />
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I spent more time reading these than I would care to admit.<br />
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Next, I set off to explore the shrine. It was a pretty cool place, otaku interests aside.<br />
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There was a huge ring in front of this building, and instructions for how to "use" it, which involved stepping around the outside of the ring a few times and then entering from the center.<br />
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Towards the back of the area, there was an arch leading to a grassy pathway, where a small shrine was hidden. It was pretty mysterious and cool-looking.<br />
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There were some animals in cages, too, for some reason. This peacock was sleeping.<br />
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I took a picture of myself walking away from the gate. It was all from memory of the last time I had seen the anime, which was several months prior, but I think it came out pretty well.</div>
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I had seen a few cats wandering around on the shrine grounds, but this was the first one that didn't run away before I took its picture.<br />
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The building on the right had a few lucky star posters, among other things.<br />
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I ventured down the street, but I was feeling a little unsatisfied with the trip, and was feeling a bit bold, so I decided to stop by a local shop that had some Lucky☆Star stuff in the window. I thought that, with some luck, I might get tipped off to something else to see.<br />
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I consider myself extremely lucky for having made that decision. While I did get stared at like an alien by a few guys enjoying lunch, the place was a gold mine for <i>Lucky☆Star</i> fanart, and I got some delicious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki">takoyaki</a>.<br />
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There was also one of those pilgrimage notebook things there I got to sign. (I got the URL wrong, oops!) The shop owner was very nice, and she gave me copies of a newspaper with an article about the shrine to take home with me.<br />
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The takoyaki was very hot. So hot, in fact that it melted the Styrofoam. I think I might have accidentally eaten some. Oh well. I was already sick!<br />
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Much like the <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/migration-and-k-on-pilgrimage-part-1.html">gift shop</a> in Toyosato Elementary, there were many figures and art decorating the walls. There were several types of sauce on sell with anime branding as well.<br />
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I washed up, gave my sincere thanks, and left the store, much more satisfied than I had been before. It wasn't a long walk back to the station.<br />
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In front of the station, there was a small shop I hadn't noticed before.<br />
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There was lots of <i>Lucky☆Star</i> stuff on display there, as well. There was a 500 yen raffle to win one of the prizes, but some of the things on display were way too big to take home, so I declined.<br />
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Before I left, I bought some candy, and the shopkeeper pointed to a framed art board on the ceiling. It was signed by none other than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagami_Yoshimizu">Kagami Yoshimizu</a>, the author of the <i>Lucky☆Star </i>manga.<br />
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That made a good finishing touch to my time there in Washinomiya. I headed back into the train station, took a couple more pictures of this display, then headed back to Tokyo.<br />
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<i>Wanna see the trip here and the K-On! museum inside the gift shop? Read my <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/migration-and-k-on-pilgrimage-part-1.html">previous post</a>.</i></div>
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I was finished basking in the glory of the K-On! shrine and had purchased some souvenirs, so I was more than ready to go take a close look at the school itself. Outside the school I was surrounded by countless scenes from the anime.</div>
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The lawn on which they can be seen jumping around in the opening scenes and promoting their club for potential new members.<br />
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The corridors where they walk to and from ceremonies in the auditorium, as well as where they sit and ponder a parting gift for Azusa.<br />
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I'm pretty sure this fountain was in the anime, but I don't remember any specific scenes.<br />
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The statue that was always being decorated/vandalized, especially during the second season, was just to the right of the entrance.<br />
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I don't remember seeing shoe lockers in K-On!, but this school doesn't have them in the traditional sense. There were old lockers, but only about 30 of them.<br />
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I left my shoes in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genkan">genkan</a> and grabbed a pair of the kushy but relatively uncomfortable slippers from a giant box.<br />
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I was tempted to head straight up the stairs of the three-story building, right to the "music storage room" from the anime, but I instead opted to save that for later.<br />
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There seemed to be something going on in one of the rooms on the first floor, so I took the path of least resistance and made my way up to the second floor. The iconic tortoise and hare spotted the inside banister, just like in the anime.<br />
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This was, without a doubt, the same hallway I had seen the light music club enjoying their high school lives. Around every corner, I felt a sense of déjà vu as all of the backgrounds from the anime appeared. I never really felt like I was exploring a new place. It was all very familiar to me.<br />
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There was one classroom with desks setup, although it wasn't anything like the anime. Not only were the desks quite different, but the rooms in the anime appeared much bigger. It is only an elementary school in real life, after all.<br />
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Outside the window and across the open dirt ground was the newer school building, which is much bigger and not nearly as cool as the one I was looking at it from. I also took a picture from the stereotypical anime protagonist's seat, all the way in the back, by the window.<br />
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Near the ends of the building, there were stairways much like the one in the middle.<br />
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Most of the doors had these yellow lines indicating the door's opening path. Some of them were misaligned for some reason.<br />
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I felt giddy with anticipation as I climbed the middle staircase to the small third floor. This is where I could find the club room, where Yui, Mio, Ritsu, Mugi, and Azusa enjoyed most of their time sipping tea when they were supposed to be practicing.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Club Room</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That feeling hit me again. It definitely wasn't a disappointing feeling, but it wasn't a surprising feeling either. I was setting foot into a room I had only been able to see through a window before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The room was significantly larger than its anime counterpart, but everything was there, and then some.</span><br />
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The whiteboard was there, absolutely covered in messages and art from fans who had come before me. They hadn't messed with the message on the center of the board, 目指せ! 武道館.<br />
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The room has a simple, rectangle floor plan; there is no alcove where the closet is placed in the anime. The closet was there, however and that's where a lot of the trinkets were.<br />
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These trinkets were all over the place. Everything from the fan that broke and nearly took off somebody's head to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_organ">pump organ</a> played by Ui in the later episodes.<br />
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In the closet, there was a rack full of cosplay outfits, because their crazy teacher was always trying to get them to wear stuff. There were several tea sets, and framed puzzles. It was amazing to think that most, if not all of this stuff was donated by loyal fans.<br />
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A bench behind the desks was displaying recreations of the signboards used in one of the opening themes of season 2. Underneath the bench were the girls' slippers (in Japan, you don't just wear your icky outside shoes inside the beautiful school).<br />
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Much like the time I want to see the <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2013/11/kyoto-time-and-pilgrimage-or-two.html">real market</a> from <i>Tamako Market</i>, there were several notebooks filled with messages and illustrations from visitors.<br />
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I left my mark, too.<br />
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There was... something that they were handing out via these folders. Unfortunately, they were all empty. Maybe next time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The wall where they fall asleep<br />at the end of the <a href="http://animedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-golden-episode.html">fantastic</a> episode 20.</i></td></tr>
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Upon further inspection, I noticed that there were more hidden gems within the desks.<br />
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In Mio's desk, there was a scary face with a piece of tape attached that said "pull." This was a reference to when Ritsu tried to scare her. In Ritsu's desk, there was an unwritten form for requesting time on the stage in the auditorium. Ritsu was the club leader, but was always shirking responsibilities.<br />
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There was even a little "aquarium" for Ton-chan, the club's turtle that they bought for Azusa in the second season.<br />
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I took a few last pictures, and even a video (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDCIRSpNFZI">which you can watch here</a>,) then I said goodbye to the clubroom. Until we meet again...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sheet music for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBt__U37Ymc">Fuwa Fuwa Time</a>.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>They used these cups to let Ton-chan decide where they<br />would go for their club vacation in the movie.</i></td></tr>
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There was only one part of the school left to explore: the auditorium.<br />
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Goodbye auditorium.<br />
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Goodbye school.<br />
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I took an alternate route back towards the station. I was a little pressed for time, but I wanted to see as many of these signs as possible.<br />
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I guess the tortoise and the hare is a theme in Toyosato, as I saw a couple references outside of the school as well.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Journey to Tokyo</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As I waited for the train, I noticed yet more illustrations across the tracks.</span><br />
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It wasn't long before the train showed up. I spent the time on the train checking out the stuff I bought at the gift shop. I bought a T-Shirt, a small towel, and a keyring, all with my favorite character, Ritsu's visage on them.<br />
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When the train arrived back in Maibara, I had some time to kill, so I decided to take my first trip to a Japanese McDonald's.<br />
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I bought the Ebi Filet-O (shrimp burger), because I had wanted to try it ever since I first heard of it on the internet years before.<br />
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It was pretty damn good.<br />
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I didn't have to wait to long for the Shinkansen to show up. At least, I didn't have to wait nearly as long as last time.<br />
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This trip was a little longer than the first leg, so I tried to sleep a little. I managed to snap a picture of Mt. Fuji, although it was shrouded in clouds. This is apparently very common for Mt. Fuji, and I was lucky to have even seen that much.<br />
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I watched the scenery roll by for a few hours. It was dark when I finally got to Tokyo.<br />
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It wasn't too hard to find the hostel I was staying at, the Khaosan Tokyo Ninja, because I had already scouted it out with Google Maps street view. It was, however, hard not to exit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara">Akihabara</a> station, which was one of a couple stops on trains when I got there. That was an experience for tomorrow.<br />
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After lugging my stuff up 5 flights of stairs, I arrived at my new room. That is the whole room.<br />
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Somewhere in between a capsule hotel and a normal hostel, the room was basically a big bunk bed that I could lock. There was an outlet, a light, and a "window" inside. Bathrooms and showers were shared with other guests. Luckily, I had a lower bed, so I didn't have to put much effort forth before I crashed for the night.</div>
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You'd think that after all of that running around, it would have been easy to fall asleep. Thinking about the fun that awaited me Saturday, however, kept me up for at least an hour.<br />
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Uh oh, listen to the sound of that title. I really must be hyping something up with that wording. Surely I have something to follow it up with. Can I put my money were my mouth is, as it were?<br />
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Heavy bags digging into my shoulder, and rolling suitcase trailing behind me, I said my last goodbye to my roommates and the building that had been my home for the past month.<br />
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When I arrived at the station, I stopped in 7-Eleven and bought some snacks. I was in for a long journey.<br />
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Getting tickets for the Shinkansen was easy enough. I just told the person at the desk where I was going, and they gave me a ticket for the next available train there. I asked for a window seat because, well, I wanted a window seat, obviously! Unfortunately, a train headed for Maibara had just barely left, so I would have to wait for a bit. It's incredibly hard to find chairs in Japan, but I found a good corner to set all of my stuff in and leaned against the wall.<br />
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When I got off the train in Maibara, my first order of business was to dump my luggage somewhere. I was planning to use a coin locker, so searched for a while, but I wasn't finding any. When I found myself at the exit to the train station, I asked a guy in an office where the coin lockers were. <i>Of course,</i> he pointed me back down the long hallway I had just traversed. The lockers were literally right outside the ticket gates. The system was pretty simple. It was 600 yen for the medium-sized locker, and I could use it until the end of the day. So I stashed my rolling suitcase, duffel bag, and pulled some bulky stuff (like books) and delicate stuff (like the <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2014/07/graduation-day.html">uchiwa fan</a>, for which I had created a makeshift case out of cardboard) out of my backpack.<br />
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My first destination was still a train ride away, in a tiny little town called Toyosato. Why was I going to this teeny little town, you ask? Why, another anime <a href="http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/23/otaku-pilgrimage/">pilgrimage</a> of course!</div>
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The next train wasn't coming for a solid hour. I had expected this, however. My <a href="http://www.hyperdia.com/">itinerary</a> said so. There wasn't even anybody at the ticket office, so I decided to wander around a bit.<br />
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I headed out the doors to the south and walked a couple blocks under the blazing sun. The area was surprisingly drab, and it was so hot that I felt like I needed a drink of water every few steps I took. There wasn't much shade either. The station must have been pretty new, since there were no tall trees around.<br />
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I waited for a painfully long time for the crosswalk to permit me to return, then I high-tailed it back into the cool building.<br />
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It was a very slow, suspenseful ride. I kept my sanity by watching this display that indicated what stop we were at. That's not to say none of the scenery was cool. We went through a grassy tunnel that looked like something out of a Miyazaki film. I couldn't get a good representative picture or video of it, though. I guess you'll just have to go yourself to see that. Take me with you if you do.<br />
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Much to my surprise, I was able to spot it on the horizon! That was it, the school from K-On!, Toyosato Elementary!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everybody stared as the stray </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijin" style="font-family: inherit;">gaijin</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> rushed off the train, and wasted no time making his way out of the </span>minuscule<span style="font-family: inherit;"> station.</span><br />
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From the moment I exited the "building" (it was more like an elaborate gate with a couple of restrooms built in) I could see hints of K-On! <u>everywhere</u>. On the front of a shop just outside, there was a poster with Mio's mug on it.<br />
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There were also lots of these. This is a variation on an old classic sign in this town called the "<a href="http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A3%9B%E3%81%B3%E5%87%BA%E3%81%97%E5%9D%8A%E3%82%84">Jump-Out Boy</a>." It is a traffic warning sign to watch for children jumping out into the road. Since the popularity of the nearby school skyrocketed, they have been creating K-On! characters, as well as characters from other anime, and there are one or two of them on every block. My collector's instinct made me want to wander the streets and take a photo of every single one, but I really didn't have time for that, and I wanted to have as much time as I needed at the school.</div>
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Colorful posters littered the windows and walls of nearly every establishment. Part of me wondered if the owners resented or relished the strange origin of the sudden popularity of their town.</div>
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After walking a little ways, I started to see signs of the school. The sights were just surreal. All of that waiting and planning was finally going to pay off.<br />
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There it was. The iconic gates, the well-kept bushes and trees, the fountain, and the blocky, white building, dead center.<br />
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I think a guy my age getting that excited standing at the gates to an elementary school is illegal or at least frowned upon anywhere else but there.<br />
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I would have gone straight into the front door of the school, but a building off to the left caught my eye. I saw "tourist information" and decided I had better stop there first.<br />
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I removed my shoes, put on their special slippers, and made my way into the building. What I saw next was nothing short of dazzling.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Gift Shop</b></span><br />
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It might have been a tourist information center, but it was also a gift shop, and in the back, there was a huge shrine packed from wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling with K-On! merchandise that sightseers had donated.<br />
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Apparently, the room the shrine was in was also used as a set piece for the Ace Attorney movie. It was kind of neat to see the real version of that room, but it was hard to care with the visual stimuli overload it was coated in.<br />
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In a corner of the room, there was a temple/shrine-esque rack covered in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema_(Shinto)">ema</a> that several skilled fans and artists had left their mark on.<br />
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All manner of anime merchandise was scattered throughout the room, even some pretty left-field stuff, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakimakura">dakimakura</a> and <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shimapan">shimapan</a>. There were enough figures to sell and buy a third-world country with, and every single K-On! manga, with several duplicates. They even had all of the original magazines the chapters were published in. I can't imagine collecting all that myself, much less donating it to a museum-like place such as this. I guess it must be strength in numbers.<br />
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In the center of the room, the actual instruments used by all of the fictional counterparts in the anime were on display. I strummed Yui's guitar, and it was way out of tune, but that wasn't exactly surprising. I thought about tuning it, but I wasn't sure how they would react to a strange American guy picking it up.<br />
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There were cardboard cutouts of all the main, and even secondary characters, as well as a bunch of artboards and another huge bookshelf full of merchandise.<br />
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I got a good view of the cafe below, a room which I'm pretty sure was in the anime at some point, because it looked extremely familiar.<br />
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Crunch time. I was leaving tomorrow, and everybody was nervously packing and cleaning their rooms. Luckily, we discovered a vacuum cleaner in our closed, which had a convenient "tatami mat" setting.</div>
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But that's not to say we spent the entire day diligently cleaning. In fact, the first part of the day was more of a wallowing-in-despair and lying around moment. There was a good deal of cleaning ahead of us.<br />
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I laid in my corner of the room and let my gaze wander. This wouldn't be the last time I would wake up to this view, but it <i>would</i> be the last time I could just lie here and think in this room.<br />
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I wandered around the house, snapped a few pictures.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Post Office</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These two wonderful people were nice enough to drive me and the girls to the post office to help us mail our packages.</span><br />
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We all piled into the car with our boxes and mailing forms. The post office we went to wasn't far, but it was on a side of the city I had never been to.</div>
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I also learned that I could have put several more pounds of stuff in the box and still been under the weight limit for my price range. (That good-for-nothing scale). In retrospect, that would have been really nice to know in advance.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kilo took this picture of himself with my camera when I was gone.<br />
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What happened next was probably one of the greatest nights of my life. We sang, we talked, we drank, and we took lots of pictures.<br />
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Our time was almost up, but the previously MIA Christian, Neko-Sean and Jake had just shown up, So I spent about 20 minutes singing with them, too. Sean was the only one who knew some of the same anime songs I did, so we sang a couple together.<br />
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We only had about 10 minutes left at this point, so we all sang Bohemian Rhapsody in the second room. It was pretty epic.<br />
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Some people hopped on trains to go home, and others followed us back to the dorm, to see us off until the very end. I went to bed a little sad, but excited, because the craziest adventures were still in front of me. Starting Friday, I would be on my own.<br />
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The classes were all but over. All was said and done. Wednesday was an exciting day, but also a sad day. No more classes, no more arranged activities. I spent the morning before our last class taking pictures of some things just for memory's sake.</div>
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After our final "class" was over, I said goodbye to the classroom, and the teacher.<br />
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The next step was the graduation ceremony. A couple of the Japanese students came with us, but it was mostly just us and the faculty.</div>
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The top floor of the building was pretty fancy. There was a shrine outside this meeting room, where our quiet ceremony would be held.<br />
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They gave us each little care packages, with goodies inside. There was also a folder to put our certificate in after we received it.<br />
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It wasn't designed for graduation ceremonies. It was more like a conference room. We played with the microphones a bit. Rick was the funniest, hands down.<br />
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There was a certain method to the madness. We were coached on how to accept our certificates before the dean showed up. We were also each given unique uchiwa fans.<br />
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After we had all received our certificates, we moved on with our days, many of us preparing to go home. I had a bunch of trinkets, but not as much space as I would have liked. My solution was to mail a big box of stuff home. About a week beforehand I had procured some cardboard and a list of prices for shipping certain sizes and weights. I met some of the girls at their dorm, and they came over to pick up some of my boxes, as well as the scale I had borrowed from the administration at I-Talk the day before.<br />
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I ordered some shrimp fried rice and gyoza. Miho, the girl sitting next to me, said she hates shrimp. She's crazy. It was some good eatin'.<br />
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After paying and stepping outside, the Japanese students presented us with parting gifts. They gave us art boards with pictures all over the front, and tidbits with signatures from several students on the back.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were taking a bus to a hot spring that day. I was happy to hear we were doing that, since the closest thing I had to that experience was the bath in Best Western Hotel my <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2013/06/arrival.html">first day there</a>. First, we all headed down to Furuichi station. This station was pretty close to the dorm, in fact, probably a little closer, but it was my first time going there personally, so it was pretty interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We spent a good deal of time on the other side of the curtains, washing off, then soaking in the various baths. Some were lukewarm, some were almost scalding hot. I was the only one who couldn't bring myself to get in the ice cold one. It was right next to the saunas, which also had two temperature grades, hot and face-melting. I spent about 5 minutes in the face-melting one before I came staggering out. It was just too much. Both of the saunas had salt, which I was told is to rub on your skin to make it hotter. I managed to restrain myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After exiting into the lobby and meeting up with the girls, I had a glass of milk, just like in the anime. I didn't put my hand on my hip and gasp after drinking the whole thing in one go, though. Maybe next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a concessions stand selling all kinds of things, from ice cream to beer to snacky food items. Beside it were the vending machines filled with milk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And beside that was the lazy retreat, a little room with tatami mats designed for laying around in. And we did lay around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We took some pictures and moved on. When we arrived back at Furuichi station, the night was still young, so we decided to go get something to eat. First we stopped by a 7-Eleven for reasons I can't remember, where I bought this energy drink thing. It was pretty underwhelming, but the bottle was cool!</span><br />
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After walking about a mile, we arrived at our destination, a Yakiniku restaurant. It was a little expensive, but I was excited to try it. Unfortunately, it was also packed. For financial and/or time reasons, our group split into two. Most people headed over to some family restaurant, while Jackson, Takayuki and I decided to wait it out and pay the price. The line was long, but I was no stranger to waiting at that point.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next day was in preparation for the last leg of my trip. It was time to go get my JR pass ready. I rode a series of trains to the Osaka station, asked two or three people for directions, and finally found the place to get it activated. I had done everything I was supposed to, but I was still worried that something was gonna go wrong, and that 300 bucks I spent would be all for nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But it all went off without a hitch. I used the rest of the night to explore the Osaka station and Abenobashi mall. That Osaka station is still a confusing maze to me, even though I've been there so many times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There I was, on the seventh of June, laying in my bed, sick. I wasn't feeling very sick, but I could feel it lingering inside me. I'd be damned, however, if I was gonna miss my very first Japanese festival at Tennoji. I sat up and prepared for an awesome day.</span></div>
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Once they arrived (most of them were wearing yukata, and looked great), we hopped on the train and walked about a mile to the temple.</span><br />
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It was nobody's secret that there was an event going on. Thick crowds of Japanese surrounded us as we wandered, checking out the various food stands.</span><br />
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We even met a nice old lady who helped us fix Jackson's yukata, and informed him that it was technically a ladies' yukata (he actually already knew, and was hoping nobody would notice). She seemed excited and amused to see foreigners there.</span><br />
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I made my way over to the official entrance, which we had failed to use. There were bamboo plants lined up, with hundreds of wishes written on tanzaku tied up. At least half of them were wishing their families a healthy life/year.</span><br />
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The temple! And today it was open, so I could explore the inside for free.</span><br />
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I bought myself a tanzaku, and wrote my wish in my caveman-esque gaijin scribble of Japanese handwriting. I tied it to a less heavily-populated section near the top of the tree, while musing that if my wish doesn't come true, it would be most likely due to my penmanship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A predictable wish, I know, but at least I didn't just wish my family a healthy life. I would hope that the gods have caught on to the fact that everybody wants that by now.</span></div>
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I passed the tents set up with childrens' games, which were very familiar to my anime-watching self. The surreal spectacle was also a dispiriting realization that I was long past the age to experience all of this first-hand. Oh, look, a doggie!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Monday, somebody spotted a huge millipede in I-Talk. Most of the girls seemed to disappear while a few of the braver guys managed to get it into a garbage bag using a paper plate, which they then carried far away from the building. I don't know what they did with it, but I like to think that it involved flamethrowers. I was feeling a little sick to my stomach, but it wasn't the bug that made me feel that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next day I again only took one picture, and it was also coincidentally of a bug. It was cooler in person, I swear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was starting to feel really sick by then. I hoped that it would go away, but it wasn't letting up. The next day I decided that I needed to get medical help. I used the phone in the dorm to call I-Talk, and Mr. Yamanaka, one of the staff members there, drove me to the nearby hospital, and helped get me checked in. There I had to describe my symptoms in Japanese, which was a little awkward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn't bring my camera, because I thought that would be touristy to the point of disrespect. Instead, I snapped a few pictures with my iPod touch that I always had handy. The program director, Mr. Azuma, showed up to help me through the process. He was very helpful and kept me company through the tedious process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...And it was tedious. I was sent back and forth through 4 or 5 departments, and I was there for several hours. I gave a urine sample. I listened to doctors speaking in advanced Japanese medical terms (most of them kept it simple for me) and making fun of my weight loss, probably assuming I couldn't understand them (my shorts were buttoned through the first belt loop). They put me through a CT scan, and they stuck an IV in me and prescribed me some medicine. It was my first time having an IV in my arm (that I can remember), and I had to lay there for an hour like that. I was able to listen to music though. Glad I brought my earphones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next day I still didn't feel like I could walk to school. Mr. Azuma's wife showed up and brought me some goodies. Between all this and their help with the insurance company, I can't thank them enough.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I spent the majority of my free time the next few days alternating between laying in bed and playing video games on my laptop at the dining table. This was how I spent the fourth of July, and this was also, sadly, how I spent the class trip to Namba. As much as I was looking forward to that trip, I was advised against going again and again, and I didn't want to risk jeopardizing the last leg of my trip, my solitary adventure to Tokyo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before leaving, I cleaned out my backpack, which had a few things left from the adventure before, such as this invitation to a love hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was a recently (as in the day before) developed practice to let my roommates know the general vicinity I would be in, in case something went wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I avoided the scary route I took with Sean, Courtney and Stacey the time before, and instead walked north directly from the Tennoji station. There were some interesting displays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps you, as a reader, are getting tired of this place, but I sure hadn't. I wandered the streets of this glorious place for what I assumed would be the last time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the things I loved about Nipponbashi was the fact that it always felt new. I went there 3 (or 4?) times, and each time it was almost like a different place. There were so many stores, and the backstreets revealed even more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This time I found what appeared to basically be a second full-fledged road full of nerdy shops. I even found a shop devoted solely to figures. Unfortunately it was getting late and I had one last destination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last time I ran most of the way there, and stopped in a couple of places to ask directions, but this time I was just walking, and I realized just how far it was. This time I had a detailed map, and actually knew where my destination was on said map. I recommend the map method.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After wandering through a few dark alleyways, I finally came out in a place I recognized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And there it was! It's a pretty popular tourist spot, which is a con in my book, but the lights sure are pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After watching the scene from the anime again, I have gathered that this store might be the right one. It doesn't look the same on the outside, but the inside sure does. It was also closed, so I couldn't really go inside and get a feel for the space on the inside of the store, either. Not really terribly disappointed or satisfied either way, I decided it was time to head back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...But not without taking a few pictures along the way. Check out this sweet map/statue thing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Having finished my temple tour, I was ready for a little not-so-traditional sightseeing. It started, by necessity, with a walk through downtown Kyoto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was far north on the map, and I needed to go Southeast. I had a couple of new places I wanted to visit, and I wanted to stop by a familiar place on the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were some interesting stores, and I might have stopped by if I thought I had time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I passed a temple or two, but I had definitely had my share of traditional Japanese buildings for the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I passed the north end of the Kyoto Imperial Garden, which, if I am not mistaken, is the location of the old capital of Japan. I had other plans though, so I just kept walking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There it was again, "Usagi-Yama" Shopping Arcade! (That's not its real name, fyi). After doing some research back at home, I realized that I had completely neglected to take a photo of this side of the alley, which is kind of like the front, considering it's the first view you see of it when watching the anime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Across some familiar bridges and intersections, I boarded a train at Demachiyanagi Station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>That Bridge I Was Looking For!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Right outside of Fujinomori station, I found the bridge from Tamako Market. You know, the one I <a href="http://japanesedaibouken.blogspot.com/2013/11/kyoto-time-and-pilgrimage-or-two.html">spent two hours wandering around looking for</a> last time I was in Kyoto. While the anime would have you believe differently, this bridge is actually 4 or 5 miles away from the shopping arcade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Actually, this area was overall more interesting, and felt more like the anime than the area around the "Usagiyama" shopping arcade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I still couldn't quite find Tamako's house, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Interestingly, there was a signboard nearby for an elementary school, and the children in the pictures were wearing uniforms very similar to the ones worn by the high school students in Tamako Market. Also there was a notice about the elementary school's "entrance exams." I promise I didn't read that wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Upon turning the corner, I spotted another familiar bridge!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The train had a green theme. I like green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It wasn't hard to see the building containing the store from the Kohata Station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I climbed the stairs and went inside. It was beautiful, and I bought several things, but I had made it only half an hour or so before they were to close up shop. Also, there were signs everywhere forbidding photography. How irritating. I took a photo of the outside of the store, but I didn't dare try to sneak a photo inside. I didn't want to risk getting kicked out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to see the studio, too, but I couldn't seem to find it. I wandered around for a while, and then I crossed the train tracks and wandered some more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It turns out that there are two Kohata stations. The Kyoto Animation Studio is right outside the JR Kohata station, and the shop is right outside the other one. The studio is several blocks east of the shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In any case, I had found it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If only I could have actually gone inside. Oh, well. I wasn't really expecting to be able to. I was just glad to have found it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Outside in the display case, along with posters promoting their most recent anime, there was a map showing how to get to the shop. It would have been nice to have the opposite...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided to just use the JR station nearby, until I saw the prices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I saw some interesting trains on the way back home. The one above had a few extra folding seats, which I was glad to discover after standing for about half an hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love the look of Japan at night. I guess any metropolitan city would look like this at night, but Japan is just special to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got home and checked out my goods. I got some posters, some other trinkets, and it all came in an awesome K-On! paper bag.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Needless to say, I was dead tired, so it wasn't long before I passed out in my futon, only sort-of ready to go to school the next day.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570152085130931903.post-10098239177990877942014-02-08T11:39:00.001-07:002014-02-08T11:39:05.216-07:00The Great Kyoto Adventure, Part III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was about 1:00 PM on a hot Sunday in Japan, and many tourists and Japanese travelers were just barely arriving at their weekend destination. I, however, had started hours since, and still had many places to visit. Next up was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkaku-ji">Kinkaku-Ji</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I had just emerged from Ryoan-Ji, and found myself heading downhill into the edge of a town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were quite a few interesting things to see there, such as this art museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the top of the road, I found the entrance to my last temple visit of the day: Kinkaku-Ji, or "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was now prime tourist time; The crowds were thick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A couple asked me to take their picture, so I asked the same in return.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was asked by two or three groups of people if they could give me a tour. I think they wanted to practice their English. I declined, though. I wanted to go at my own pace, and I was already hearing more English than I wanted to, with all of the tourists around. Oh, and this did happen to be another pilgrimage, incidentally!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a pond with lots of turtles and fish in it, which was neat. Also, those gardeners deserve some kind of award.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Down a path behind the building was a little shop selling charms for all kinds of things, like safe car trips, healthy families, and passing tests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After that it was just another series of paths. There wasn't anything particularly interesting in comparison to the Golden Pavilion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lots of people had umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun. I probably should have at least worn sunscreen that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the left I saw this. I think you're supposed to get coins into the bowl for good luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I threw a couple 5 yen coins. I missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I saw one or two more of those coin toss things on the way up the trail. They weren't as popular as the first one, however.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a branch in the path, and there I saw two more blocked off paths, and an interesting view of the top of the pavilion. This was a really linear attraction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The sightseeing was pretty much over, and all that was left was a bunch of shops. There was a place to stop and enjoy some bitter green tea. Oh hey, this looks a bit familiar... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I always enjoyed these "ema" signboards, where people wrote their hopes and prayers. Lots of good art to be found here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And with that, I was officially done with Kinkaku-Ji. Down the stairs there was a huge parking lot with buses for tour groups and school field trips, and another gift shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was also a disposable camera vending machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All templed out, I headed down a huge hill out into downtown Kyoto. I had a couple anime pilgrimages to make before heading home, and I was also planning to visit the Kyoto Animation shop and studio!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh, and I took this picture without realizing it has the iconic huge 大 character on the hillside. I think that makes this a good stopping point. Read the last part of my great Kyoto adventure for some wandering, some pilgrimages, and some more wandering!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0