でた!! Update SMASH! part 4
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chocolate_chipSo, sometime between cherry blossoms and Golden Week, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yhibiki and I went to the Monkey Park. Basically, it's a place where you pay money to climb up a mountain and get attacked by wild monkeys. We also found an amazingly good ice cream shop that had strawberry cookies 'n' cream. :9
Me,yhibiki, and a monkey.
Thenrkold came for Golden Week, and we went to Kurama and Kibune. There were lots of stairs, but it was nice, because they still had cherry trees in bloom at Kurama-dera.
The main gate to Kurama-dera.
The main hall of Kurama-dera.
Kibune Jinja
Then we went up to Tokyo for the long weekend. At first I tried to do Important Cultural Things, but after half a day of that, I finally accepted that Tokyo really is only good for shopping and seeing the places that were in X. The National Museum of Western Art has lots of Rodin sculptures, though, and since Rodin is one of my favorite sculptors, that was cool. I went there and to Ueno Parkto find a cherry tree in bloom on Saturday while Rachel was at Super Comic City, and then I went to the Diet Building and the Imperial Palace for a little bit.
The main hall of Toshogu, one of the few Edo period buildings left in Tokyo.
Toshogu has a huge peony garden which is only open for a few weeks out of the year, during the Botan Matsuri. As a side note, I am physically incapable of correctly typing the word "peony".
Found me some out-of-season sakura.
Ten no Ryuu headquarters.
A tiny part of the Imperial Palace.
Sunday, I decided to go to SCC with Rachel, and I actually made a lot of good finds. I got a bunch of really good FMA books (both Elricest and Roy/Ed), some more S/N from Pitophuii, some HikaGo, and I found a circle that does Yuuta-centric St. Rudolph doujinshi in which Kaneda has a huge crush on Yuuta and Yuuta is completely oblivious. XD I also learned to stay far far away from Kuroshitsuji doujinshi. :P
After that, we went to Meiji Jingu and Harajuku. We went to Volks, which is decorated with very cute and very slashy Tony/Hewitt and Lucas/Chris comics (Black Cat Lucas and White Cat Chris ordering an FCS together is a metaphor for them having a baby, y/y?), and went shopping at the used punk and loli stores. And we ate dinner at a place that had REAL pepperoni on their pizza! T^T I was sooooo happy.
On Monday, we headed over to Asakusa to see Senso-ji. And it was packed. We forced our way through the crowds to the main hall, and as we were exiting it, we noticed that there was something coming through the crowd towards us. And that's when we realized it was Children's Day, and we'd crashed the festival. There was a boat-shaped float pulled by a bunch of kids, and kids playing instruments were riding on it. It went right past us, so we ended up being in the perfect spot without even trying. Then we took a look at the grounds and the festival stands, and Rachel got her cock-on-a-stick. And we found a gelato place! Soooo good~ And then we went to Nakano and Ikebukuro for more shopping. XD
It was about now that we were like, "What's that drumming sound?"
Rachel had to leave early on Tuesday, so I went to Tokyo Tower by myself. And the stuff that everyone says about the Tokyo Tower mascots? They're even worse. @_@ I got there in time to just barely make out Mt. Fuji through the haze, but by the time I made it through the line for the special observation deck, it had disappeared. After Tokyo Tower, I went to the Pokémon Center, lol, and then to Sunshine 60, where you really can have your love fortune told at the top, but it's a palm reader, not an astrologer.
Mt. Fuji! Really!
;_;
The view from the top of Sunshine 60.
@_@ I'm so far behind now that I can't even remember what the next update is supposed to be. Fuji, I think?
Also, fuck you, photobucket.
yhibiki and I went to the Monkey Park. Basically, it's a place where you pay money to climb up a mountain and get attacked by wild monkeys. We also found an amazingly good ice cream shop that had strawberry cookies 'n' cream. :9 Me,
yhibiki, and a monkey.Then
rkold came for Golden Week, and we went to Kurama and Kibune. There were lots of stairs, but it was nice, because they still had cherry trees in bloom at Kurama-dera. The main gate to Kurama-dera.
The main hall of Kurama-dera.
Kibune Jinja
Then we went up to Tokyo for the long weekend. At first I tried to do Important Cultural Things, but after half a day of that, I finally accepted that Tokyo really is only good for shopping and seeing the places that were in X. The National Museum of Western Art has lots of Rodin sculptures, though, and since Rodin is one of my favorite sculptors, that was cool. I went there and to Ueno Park
The main hall of Toshogu, one of the few Edo period buildings left in Tokyo.
Toshogu has a huge peony garden which is only open for a few weeks out of the year, during the Botan Matsuri. As a side note, I am physically incapable of correctly typing the word "peony".
Found me some out-of-season sakura.
Ten no Ryuu headquarters.
A tiny part of the Imperial Palace.
Sunday, I decided to go to SCC with Rachel, and I actually made a lot of good finds. I got a bunch of really good FMA books (both Elricest and Roy/Ed), some more S/N from Pitophuii, some HikaGo, and I found a circle that does Yuuta-centric St. Rudolph doujinshi in which Kaneda has a huge crush on Yuuta and Yuuta is completely oblivious. XD I also learned to stay far far away from Kuroshitsuji doujinshi. :P
After that, we went to Meiji Jingu and Harajuku. We went to Volks, which is decorated with very cute and very slashy Tony/Hewitt and Lucas/Chris comics (Black Cat Lucas and White Cat Chris ordering an FCS together is a metaphor for them having a baby, y/y?), and went shopping at the used punk and loli stores. And we ate dinner at a place that had REAL pepperoni on their pizza! T^T I was sooooo happy.
On Monday, we headed over to Asakusa to see Senso-ji. And it was packed. We forced our way through the crowds to the main hall, and as we were exiting it, we noticed that there was something coming through the crowd towards us. And that's when we realized it was Children's Day, and we'd crashed the festival. There was a boat-shaped float pulled by a bunch of kids, and kids playing instruments were riding on it. It went right past us, so we ended up being in the perfect spot without even trying. Then we took a look at the grounds and the festival stands, and Rachel got her cock-on-a-stick. And we found a gelato place! Soooo good~ And then we went to Nakano and Ikebukuro for more shopping. XD
It was about now that we were like, "What's that drumming sound?"
Rachel had to leave early on Tuesday, so I went to Tokyo Tower by myself. And the stuff that everyone says about the Tokyo Tower mascots? They're even worse. @_@ I got there in time to just barely make out Mt. Fuji through the haze, but by the time I made it through the line for the special observation deck, it had disappeared. After Tokyo Tower, I went to the Pokémon Center, lol, and then to Sunshine 60, where you really can have your love fortune told at the top, but it's a palm reader, not an astrologer.
Mt. Fuji! Really!
;_;
The view from the top of Sunshine 60.
@_@ I'm so far behind now that I can't even remember what the next update is supposed to be. Fuji, I think?
Also, fuck you, photobucket.
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Date: 2008-09-09 12:57 pm (UTC)1. Baby monkey soooo cute!! :D
2. I love looking at your photos, they're so vibrant. I really like the one of the snail on the tree-leaf.
3. And I'm incapable of saying the word "peony" without dissolving into twelve-year-old-kid-giggles.
4. Yeah, Tokyo pretends it's got all this culture stuff, but really it's all about the shopping.
5. Agreed about the Tokyo Tower mascot. XD
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Date: 2008-09-12 12:24 am (UTC)Neko!!!! :D
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Date: 2008-09-14 06:21 pm (UTC)I love your pictures from the Tower ♥ and your Tokyo pictures look so much nicer and crisper than mine. We were so lucky with that parade. I still can't believe it.
And see your Kuroshitsuji doujinshi convinced me I want to try to watch this series when it airs XD;;;