Today was pretty cool. I took a bunch of photos on my cell phone so bare with me on picture quality. Starting off the day my host family and I went to a very traditional Japanese restaurant with a very colorful menu.
This is the menu of the restaurant I went to. Pretty traditional looking. The name of the restaurant was in Japanese.
This is what I decided to get. Looked pretty good and was about $14.00 wich my host mom kindly paid for. She is a gem.
This is the actual meal I ate. Pretty close to the menu. No false advertising.
After the meal we all (me my host brothers Kelby, Lucas, and Emimama the host mother) went to a museum where we had to wear these little blue slippers.
Apparently the museum was a replica of what house of that era, around the 1600s would have looked like. There was a neat painting area that was kinda cool. Blurry photo...
So this guy painted a bunch of these pictures back then and then someone else took pictures of them to show how close he was to the origional. Or the pictures were taken and then the paintings came after.. I couldn't read the Japanese.
Lucas and Emimama looking at a painting.
More paintings and pictures.
Then upstairs there was a bunch of neat paraphernalia. A couple cameras. An ancient passport and some other old paperwork.
More of the photo/painting combo.
It was neat to see how close the paintings were to the picture. Pretty accurate painter... Or photographer.
Close up of the cameras.
JDM Passport.
Free paper I got about all the pictures and paraphernalia.
Outside there was a pretty stellar little rock garden. Kinda like Better Homes and Garden but really really authentic.
After the museum we went to a supermarket place which was a lot more like an IGA or a Walgreens with two stories.
There was some pretty fresh looking fish there. Imagine, this stuff was probably alive less than 48 hours ago, wild.
This is a picture of a model I found in the supermarket. Really attractive guy. Pretty Indi camera strap too.
These are just some chips, but in Japanese. They wow'd me. Maybe they'll wow you.
There was also like this little game thing playing. I think it was advertising the chips or something. Kinda weird. Very different.
This was a cool scooter that could almost pass as a car over here I. The land of the rising sun, but would defiantly be a scooter in America.
After the supermarket we went to a place kinda like a massive farmers market and a flea market mixed. This show probably spanned 10 blocks and was at least a mile in length. Interesting how most of the things in Japan are small but this was really big. Oh and from the flea market you could clearly see the Tokyo sky tree that costs line $50.00 to go to the top of. So I probably won't so that because I still have a semester of college to pay for after I come home from this goofy place.
After the flea market thing we went to a temple place with a lot of people and a lot of gift shops. It kinda had the feel of the Seattle fish market. Except there wasn't any fish and there were massive temples in the middle of the street.
After walking around the temples for a really long time and taking some cool pictures emimama game kelby(my host brother who isn't lucas) about three of these. They were kind of like an Andy's mint but without the mint and the chocolate was dark chocolate. They were really yummy especially after walking line 17 miles around Tokyo.
After taking the underground train back to outer home station I was in the middle of crossing yes tree when I saw this and needed to turn back and snap a quick pik of this feller.
And then I found this little guy also
And took two pictures of it!! Yellow and it's a Porsche, and its a cabriolet. Sounds like a trio made in heaven to me. So that's the last picture I took but I came home to a great meal of cabbage salad. Fried chicken and some other Japanese food I don't know the name of. But it was good and I'm not dead so it wasn't poorly made or poisonous. I hope that summed up my day before the first day of classes pretty well. I'm pretty sure I can keep posting as much or more than I have been especially with classes, but school comes first and that is my main goal in being here so don't he your hopes up to high.
Until next time,
-Josh San.
^thats Japanese for supreme master leader guy, person... Individual.
Very cool blog post.
ReplyDeleteI loved seeing all the photos. the museum was interesting, especially the stylish slippers and the paintings with photos next to. I liked seeing the menu, even more pages seen could be cool. I liked seeing the grocery store stuff and the fish. I was trying to figure out the prices for the fish. Was it 94 yen/lb that is a good price. The shot of the model was great, what a studly looking model you ran into. with a nice coat on. If was fun to see the Porsches, let me know if you see any american cars over there, if not that is very interesting and telling. like do you see many pickups? any fords at all? wow. I also thought it was interesting how some of the signs have a great big english word on them like "Roast" for coffee or "Tobacco". Thanks for posting all this, keep it up. Love Ya!