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lazy days

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 30, 2009

classes have more or less started but i’m liking the lifestyle here since it’s just orientation this week, all the classes are cut short <3 so here i present to you, more photos from my daily life!

a yakitori roadside stand! (vivi, your yatai )

i ♥ yakitori

there was a catbus on the counter [...]

winds of change

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 28, 2009

it was really weird for me to read my previous post because today i had an unexpected stroke of luck.
today my classes officially started i had 2 classes today : reading japanese newspapers and listening. they were both interesting but i was a bit daunted by the huge amount of kanji used in [...]

an unexpected tragedy

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 27, 2009

i have no idea why, but this morning suddenly my s, d an g keys wouldn’t work at all D: i even tried removing the tab from the keyboard itself to check if there was anything stuck underneath but there was nothing at all T_T i’m gonna let the japanese ra in the south building [...]

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チャイナハウス桂花楼 china house keikarou

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 25, 2009

today i went to another place on my list : keikarou, aiba-chan’s family restaurant in makuhari-hongo, chiba-ken. i left dorm around 9:30am because the restaurant was only open at 11:00am. it takes 1 hour by train to reach makuhari-hongo from wasedastation.
waseda –> [tozai line] –> nishi-funabashi –> [sobu line] –> makuhari-hongo

changing trains at nishi-funabashi

sobu line [...]

フジテレビーション fuji television

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 24, 2009

yesterday i went to odaiba with angel my main purpose was to visit the fuji television building (can anyone guess why? hahah). i definitely didn’t regret going there as it was probably the best place i’ve been so far since arriving in japan! ♥
waseda –> [tozai line] –> nihonbashi –> [ginza line] [...]

原宿+新宿 harajuku & shinjuku

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 21, 2009

on saturday, i met up with angel for the first time and we went to harajuku to buy something (more on that later). after getting what we wanted, i suggested going to togo shrine because there was supposed to be a flea market there every sunday. we took some time to find out where the [...]

築地市場 tsukiji fish market

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 20, 2009

yesterday was probably the first time i have been out and about so early in the morning. in the beginning i was supposed to meet up with tsu at 4:45am but i overslept and we met up at about 5:00 am instead >o<;; we got onto the secondtrain at 5:20am.
waseda station –> [tozai line] –> [...]

good morning :)

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 18, 2009

french toast and milk
i don’t really know why, but here in japan i automatically get up every morning around 6:30am to 7:00am. i guess it’s because it gets bright really fast here… by 5:30am it’s already quite bright and by 7:00 it gets really sunny.
in any case i guess it’s a good thing [...]

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mail!

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 17, 2009

i was so excited to find something in my mailbox when i went to check it out just now, just on a whim… because this would be the first piece of real mail i’ve gotten so far in japan! well, i did receive my national health insurance card on tuesday but that doesn’t [...]

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三鷹の森ジブリ美術館 studio ghibli museum

Posted by: plueonigiri on: September 16, 2009

one more lifetime dream accomplished today! i went to one of the most magical places i can think of – the studio ghibli museum in mitaka, 30 minutes from the heart of shinjuku. this is a really long post though, so i hope you’re prepared for all the photos! there are some photos here that [...]


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