K & A’s Adventures in Japan – Pt. 1
SO!
Sunday, I went to the Chubu International Airport to meet Kat! Yay! Long story short, we made it back to my place after taking the train and a taxi. No problems; it was pretty smooth sailing despite the fact that Kat’s plane was delayed, which sucked for her.
We didn’t do much Sunday night; relaxed, ate, chatted… played with Kaito. That was about it.
So, Monday rolled around. We ended up slowly getting ready, having some lunch, calling home (both of us did; Kat to tell her parents she arrived safely, and me to thank my mum for the suitcase filled with awesome that she had packed for me). After lunch, we headed out to Sakae and Oosu Kannon.
In Oosu, which is always fun to walk around, we saw interesting Michael Jackson masks. One white, one black. I shouldn’t laugh, but you have to admit that it’s kind of funny.
It’s been a while since I went to Like an Edison, so I picked up the R指定 release that came out in the end of July that I didn’t have yet. We did mostly window shopping; Kat bought a small umbrella… but that was about it. We also headed to the Apple store so I could finally get a pink case for my iPhone.
It was disgustingly humid, so we were out for about 5 hours and then headed home. After napping (yes, we’re that sad) we ate some dinner (where they forgot to give us utensils, so we had to ask for chopsticks), then just talked and surfed around the internet.
TUESDAY.
We had to pack for Tokyo in the morning, make the apartment presentable because Hanna and Sean are stopping by to check up on Kaito while we’re away, and go to Fujigaoka to meet Eri and Miho. Well, we were a bit late, but we got there okay and first things first, WENT FOR DONUTS.
There’s this place in Fujigaoka called Hara Donuts that sells awesome awesome donuts. So we all stopped there, ate upstairs (which is super cute), and headed off for Eri’s car and a forty minute drive to Asuke. Asuke is in Toyota, which is in Aichi-ken, and close to where Eri’s hometown is. It was a really nice drive through the mountains with lots of greenery.
In Asuke, there’s this little town and it’s kind of like one of those historical towns where they show what they did in the past. So, we walked through there and went to a paper making place, where we each made two sheets of Japanese paper, one of which had momiji in it! Yay! They’re really cool and pretty. The lady who showed us how was really cute and sweet.
After paper making, we walked around the little town a bit while it dried. Tried out some stilts, which were hilarious. An older Japanese man came out of the basket weaving house to show us how to do them. He was AWESOME at it. Kat and I pretty much failed. Eri was really good at it, however.
We met Kaede-chan, a cow, some roosters and chickens, a really cute dog and a very drowsy cat. There was a Showa museum which we checked out, and some old fashioned Japanese toys. Eventually we made it back to pick up our paper, and then headed out for dinner! On our way to dinner we stopped to take a quick refreshing foot dip in the river.
After dinner, we went to part of the town where they lit candles all along the sidewalk. They just do it for a couple weeks in August, but it’s SO cool and really pretty. People decorate their candles with all sorts of paintings and some of them were ridiculously good. We’ll post photos later.
There wasn’t much left to do there, so we headed back to Fujigaoka and took some purikura! They’re not the most attractive purikura because we were outside sweating all day, but it was a lot of fun. Then Kat and I said our goodbyes to Eri and Miho, hung out at Starbucks, then headed to Meieki to catch the night bus to Tokyo!
That’s all for now. We made it safely to Tokyo and are staying with Kimkim.
We’ll update later, and post photos when we transfer them onto the computers.
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