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Sunday 13 April 2008

Back Attack

Yes yes Y'all.
We're back in Tokyo for a few strange days. Saying goodbye to the Fujino area was sad, as it is such a beautiful place:
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Toshikatsu, Sachiko and pretty much everyone else we met were so kind and generous to us, they made travelling round the world much easier than it probably should be.
Yesterday we met up with Duncan from old Blighty, who's here in Japan doing a language course. We went back to Kiddyland, the incredibly large and lovely toy shop in Harajuku, and made our way to Shinjuku for the Fast Reaction gig (a top Brum band coincidentally in Tokyo the same time as us). The gig was in a fairly small underground venue down a Shinjuku alleyway, of which there are many. The band had just done a signing in HMV, which was strange, and it was even stranger to see a Japanese crowd singing along to their songs. Anyway, rock n roll fun was had by all.
Shinjuku at night is a strange place - not only because of the dodgy curtained doorways and shady men in big coats, but there is SO much lighting on the sides of the buildings, so much neon advertising and lit-up billboards, that even in the middle of the night it looks as bright as daytime.
Photographs were taken, they'll be floating around the internet eventually so watch this space. In the meantime, here's a photo of a tea farm on the side of a hill in Fujino.
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...Oh, go on then. Here's me winning Mario Kart:
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

what has happened to little dog and big temple sightings? I want to think of some witty caption for Joel in arcade, but can't cept it looks like you've eaten a wasabi nut or something yeucky.

Tom's Mum
and i'm tired of being anonymous, how do i be me?

Joel said...

You obviously don't recognise the face of victory.
You need a google account have a name on here, I can reccomend them. Hey, I have one, and I won Mario Kart.

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