last day in kyoto

on our last day in kyoto we had full program. we went to the mibu area, we visited the nijo castle, we spent some time in a game center and we had our last dinner in our favorite okonomiyaki restaurant.


it was my first time to visit the nijo castle and i was very impressed! this castle is not like a regular castle, residence would be a better word for it. the buildings are flat and not as high as a normal castle. the nijo castle have a big and very pretty garden, the rooms inside the buildins are very good conserved. you can see original wallpaintigs from the time of tokugawa there. very very impressive. unfortunaltely it was not allowed to take pics inside the nijo castle :(

main gate

puris part 5

i really like it to make puris with my friends. but i love to make puris alone too, unfortunately i often forget to make single  puris..... in japan my feeling for time disappears completely. i often plan things that i want to do but i never made it in time. especially in tokyo the time flows diffrent then in the rest of the world. for me it feels like this city never sleep and it's like a twilight dimension ^^


on two days i had enough time to make singel puris. those are from kyoto (i made them in the AVANTI store) and i love them!

.... sad sad conny the place for my honey is empty :) i love stupid puris ^^

shinsengumi tour through kyoto

since 2004 i'm a big fan of the shinsengumi. i was hooked with this historical story since i watched the anime peace maker kurogane. after this anime i started to learn more about the famous "cops" and i watched also the NHK shinsengumi dorama and  the anime hakuouki shensgumi kitan.

random pics from kyoto

near our hostel was the AVANTI departmentstore. i really loved it to be there. there were great shops like cecil mcbee, liz lisa, tralala, lip service, egoist and many more. it was perfect! clothes, cosmetic, purikura and food in one broad view building ( not like thd sunshine city - i always lost orienteering there ^^).
http://www.avanti-kyoto.com/


for me kyoto is the perfect city. not to big, not to crowded and they have everything i like. 

in the AVANTI building i had my best crepes during my holiday. it was an autumn special edition "creme brulee with pumpkin" 

Puris part 4

today i realized how many puris i did this year. this is my puri part 4 post and i have still so much pics i want to show you. that's crazy. how can we girls be so hooked with purikura? it's really hard do explain ne? we love it and we can't get enough of those little cute pics.

this year i was with many friends in japan. some of them traveld with us and some of them were still there or came later. on one day we met our friends janine and alex in ikebukuro, and after some biru in the izakaya we tryed to make purikura with 7 people.

i think you can't really see something in this puris :) - we had much fun to try that everyone is on the pics. this was hard work ^^

here our result of the "face matsch bilder"

 

can you find me?

because of my hardcore shopping i could not bring everything in my suitcase at home and i sent two packages to germany. to spend not to much money is used the cheapest way "funabin". it's cheap but it takes 1 - 2 month to get it.

yesterday finally my first package arrived. i was so excited because i really didn't  know what i put inside. i lost the overview of all my purchases. :) it was like christmas to open the box and yes i bought great stuff! after all my japan reports i will show you my purchases ^^ i'm still waiting for a second box and then i have everything :)

Ninja Museum Iga-Ueno

this year i finally made it to visit the ninja museum in iga-ueno. http://iganinja.jp/en/

it was about 2 hours away from kyoto (by train) but with our railpass we could drive with the JR line.

puris part 3

and again a post with some puris. 

my boyfriend andre dislike purikura  -  for him it's unnecessary nonsense (i really can't understand this thinking!). but he is a good boyfriend and because i love purikura so much he made some with me. this time i let him decorate some pics too and he did it very well :)  i think he had fun in doing the puris with me ^^ 

i really like this puri stickers. unfortunately you can't see that the paper glitters really pretty....


das sind die einzigen puris mit diesem tollen glitzerpapier die ich habe. ich liebe dieses sticker ^^

i really love this pic of us!

Kiyomizu-dera

during my stay in kyoto i visited some cultural places. my favorite place was the famous kiyomizu-dera facility. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyomizu-dera

otowa-san, the most famous temple in the kiyomizu-dera facility

Puris part 2

thank you girls for your nice comments. it makes me happy that you like my japan reports ^^ 


today i will show you again some of my puris. i made them with my dear friend naraku.

 

alien fishis :)

Kyoto

after our five days in tokyo we travelled to kyoto. i'm a huge fan of kyoto! i deeply love this city because for me this is japan. tokyo is cool but besides all those modern fashion, anime, manga or music stuff i'm really interested in japanese culture and cultural places. for me kyoto is a perfect mix of all my interests. it's calmer there, the people are more relaxed and more communicative. we enjoyed it so much to stay some days in kyoto.


we lived in the j-hoppers hostel near the kyoto station http://j-hoppers.com/. i can really recommend this hostel. it was clean, modern and the rooms were bigger than in tokyo. it was really comfortable there and cheap :)

view from our room

andre and my room

andre and my room