Golden Week!
May. 4th, 2013 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apricotleafIn May there is a run of holidays together, generally referred to as 'Golden Week' here in Japan. I am so fortunate as to get the whole week off, so I spent a couple days in Tokyo to meet with one friend, and continued down to Fukuoka to visit with another.
My first stop in Tokyo was Tokyo Skytree, where I met Jessica and we acquired cube-shaped creampuffs. At Nezu shrine we saw an amazing taiko drum group and enjoyed the azaleas. Then in Shinjiku we went to Artnia, a Square-Enix themed store and cafe. The food was amazing~ (as was the merchandise...)
The next day we meant to go to a technology museum, but along the way decided to just enjoy the nice weather, the shopping and the random things we wandered across.
That evening we had dinner together with some of Jessica's acquaintances and had a really nice time!
But all too soon that part of the trip was over and I went to the airport to catch the short flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka.
I met up with Stephanie, and because she can drive in Japan we were able to do a lot of things! We ate a more traditional dinner with noodles on a roof tile, and then spontaneously decided to watch the movie "Library Wars" (which was excellent, despite being in all Japanese, of course). The next day we went to one of the locations that they shot that movie at: Kitakyushu Central Library. Unfortunately is was closed, so we couldn't go in! But the outside has some very unique and easily recognizable designs.
We also went to the Kitakyushu Museum, where we enjoyed a special exhibit on Vietnam.
Seeing as we were so close, Stephanie drove us to the bridge that spans the islands of Kyushu and Honshu. (Honshu is the main island of Japan.)
The next day was also full with a day trip to Kurokawa to enjoy onsens (hot springs)! There is a great deal where you pay one price and get to enter three of your choice- there are over 20 in the village to choose from.
The three we chose were all quite nice in their own unique ways. And by some wonder, we got to enjoy them all by ourselves up until the last one! For all the people wandering around the village, it was surprising to not see more people actually in the onsens. (Just for the record, three is a lot to enjoy in one day...)
And that was pretty much the end of my holiday! I spent all of Friday on the Shinkansen getting from Fukuoka back home- it took about 7 and a half hours.
Ahh, I don't want my holiday to be over! I enjoy going around and seeing things so much~!
My first stop in Tokyo was Tokyo Skytree, where I met Jessica and we acquired cube-shaped creampuffs. At Nezu shrine we saw an amazing taiko drum group and enjoyed the azaleas. Then in Shinjiku we went to Artnia, a Square-Enix themed store and cafe. The food was amazing~ (as was the merchandise...)
The next day we meant to go to a technology museum, but along the way decided to just enjoy the nice weather, the shopping and the random things we wandered across.
That evening we had dinner together with some of Jessica's acquaintances and had a really nice time!
But all too soon that part of the trip was over and I went to the airport to catch the short flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka.
I met up with Stephanie, and because she can drive in Japan we were able to do a lot of things! We ate a more traditional dinner with noodles on a roof tile, and then spontaneously decided to watch the movie "Library Wars" (which was excellent, despite being in all Japanese, of course). The next day we went to one of the locations that they shot that movie at: Kitakyushu Central Library. Unfortunately is was closed, so we couldn't go in! But the outside has some very unique and easily recognizable designs.
We also went to the Kitakyushu Museum, where we enjoyed a special exhibit on Vietnam.
Seeing as we were so close, Stephanie drove us to the bridge that spans the islands of Kyushu and Honshu. (Honshu is the main island of Japan.)
The next day was also full with a day trip to Kurokawa to enjoy onsens (hot springs)! There is a great deal where you pay one price and get to enter three of your choice- there are over 20 in the village to choose from.
The three we chose were all quite nice in their own unique ways. And by some wonder, we got to enjoy them all by ourselves up until the last one! For all the people wandering around the village, it was surprising to not see more people actually in the onsens. (Just for the record, three is a lot to enjoy in one day...)
And that was pretty much the end of my holiday! I spent all of Friday on the Shinkansen getting from Fukuoka back home- it took about 7 and a half hours.
Ahh, I don't want my holiday to be over! I enjoy going around and seeing things so much~!