Matsuri at Yushima Shrine

I've been living in Japan for a while now and I started to miss blogging.
I actually have to stay up late because my hostsister hates being alone and she's in an exam session... so I have some time to waste on my computer. I'd also like to change the style of my blog for this, we'll see...
I also want to post about my trip to Seoul as soon as I'll get my pictures


So, let's go back to yesterday at the Yushima Shrine, which is dedicated to Tenjin, the God of... learning~.




I went there with my hostfamily, their friends and also met Sayuri (a friend from Malta) at the station




Sayuri was a good teacher and explained me all the praying ritual




I also got this omamori from my hostmosther to bring me luck into my travels. She bought a study omamori for her oldest daughter too.
She told me if my plane crash, she will never buy her omamori there again... *ahem*




Sayuri also suggested to get our omikuji (kind of fortunes... ?) while everyone was buying food and drinks.
I already tried once with my other friend from Malta, Yuki, when I was in Nagoya




I wasn't especially curious but the content surpised me as it was veerryy similar to the past one, except my level of luck was higher.





Findind some treasure in other people's wish




An ancient Japanese mesure




That chibiko is actually so proud of her size she uses it for most of her urls (but she was wearing platforms that day)




And here is my hostmother on the left. I'm next to her friend Miya who also welcomes foreign students into her house~.
I actually spend most of my time with them drinking.




Food hunting time ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!!




Very normally enjoying some Korean deliciouness in a Japanese festival, very hot 호떡 (hotteok) ♥





Take a minute or two to look at this fish




I bought something from a stall, and the old woman also handed me that kind of meat pancake she was cooking and said it was offered, then asked Sayuri to translate for me haha. Thank you おばあさん, but even if I didn't speak Japanese, that wasn't a difficult one.
Anyway, she was very cute and her food was delicious ♥







With just Sayuri and my oldest hostsister, Kotone we left for Ikebukuro to find a birthday present for "our" youngest sister.





We also took some purikura along the way.
Those "Focus, guys" and "Calm down" are famous sentences from our English teacher in Malta (even though Sayuri and I never shared the same class or even level)






I also met EXO on a random shop of span style="color: #e165a0;">Kotone we left for Sunshine City （￣▽￣）=３




The day ended with an English lesson in Mister Donut with Koto's friend, Rena before saying bye to Sayuri and going home.


So many things happened, it feels like 2 different days.
But I could buy Akane's birthday present

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Japan Day 4 (Tokyo)

For previous day see Moscow / Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3

Sorry for the delay on my Japan related posts!

Moreover, it seems like these are the only intersting posts. Not that I'm starving for comments though! (^o^;)

Soo... The 4th day was on March 28th and we finally decided to go around Shibuya~ （‐＾▽＾‐） Yaay~

I miss waking up to this ｡ﾟ(T^T)ﾟ｡ And also this vending machine in front of the house (same as the 103856291947 others everywhere in the streets). And I miss Asakusa.

I think behind the white building we were already at the Sumida, very convenient ☆

This makes the wake up less smooth already. Maybe you can't tell from the pictures but we actually walked a lot (_ _。). Not that I hate walking, but while my legs' muscles are in quite good conditions, my feets are really weak.

Our small and messy room ☆

My dad cutting some fruits for breakfast in the shared living room.

Random subway shoots

At the Meiji Shrine near Shibuya (-^□^-) (okay my dad looks completly ridiculous here, but worst is to come the next day)

Melon soda (miss you tooo) for me and coffee for my dad, lazy mood. My hair and expression are weird, and now I realize I actually lost a bit of weight.

Walking on a bright and sunny day o(〃＾▽＾〃)o feels good!

Some barrels of sake donated to the shrine

And barrels of wine. Quoting the sign : "The barrels of wine to be consecrated at Meiji Jingu have been offered by the celebrated wineries of Bourgogne in France on the initiative of Mr. Yasuhiko Sata, owner of the Chateau de Chailly Hotel-Golf."

Posing like kids in front of the biggest wooden Torii of the Myôjin style in Japan ! It's actually not the original one (from 1920), this one was rebuilt in 1975 following the same exact form.

You can't realize how big this door is unless you went there!

And finally the main yard of the Meiji Shrine! Everybody is talking but it stays like the most peaceful and calm place in the world.

A comfortable atmosphere.

We bought one for two and left our prayer with the ones.

I had just lost my grandmother (my dad's mother) one month before and wanted to write a lot of things for her, my family, everywhere in the world and this wooden board was sooo small.

We wrote and left without talking, crying silently. I still have tears in my eyes writing this sooo... rest of the day!

Bye Meiji Shrine~

A cure! Sakura ice cream and matcha ice cream. Remedy to all the illnesses ☆

Harajuku Station seems to come right our of a Miyazaki movie.

Aurore instantly popped into my mind when I saw it! Kis-My-Ft2's promotion truck. I passed it so many times I finally was singing along to the song.

Takeshita doriii. I instantly regretted looking so ugly that day.

I remember explaining to my dad how crepes is a must eat in Shibuya and him keeping repeting how it's not so Japanese and he doesn't want to remember Europe while there.

And we finally ate crepes even in Kyoto... ( ￣っ￣)

Hellooo fatty-me (｡･ω･)ﾉﾞ

Tokyu Plaza under construction

2NE1 truck and Big Bang truck ☆

My dad forced me to pose next to Hachiko. AND HE TOOK A BLURRY PICTURE ! ヽ(`Д´)ノ

That's when he told me "Oooh Yamapi !" like a fan haha. I was more like "109, 109 !" and didn't even realize Yamapi was there, half naked, with longer hair than mine.

Walked in the impressive WC store, with Kumatan swinging.

And then it was already about 7PM and we went to look for somewhere to eat.

Udon in kare kind of sauce. The right one was a Italian-Japanese style and was adding a bit of home in our food.

Impressive entrance of Mandarake that was already closed.

And we ate crepes again. Matcha-azuki one.

The famous Shibuya crossing

Aurore~ Look closer haha

One Piece themed subway о(ж＞▽＜)ｙ ☆

I initially took this photo to send to my mom (cause yes, I have one)

That's all for Day 4~

Day 5 will be in Shibuya again + a visit of NHK ! Stay tuned (^_-)☆