茉莉音chan Marionchan

la PSP !!!!! et DRAGON ZAKURA

ureshii je suis l heureuse detentrice de la nouvelle PSP modèle européen ainsi que de Prince of Persia en anglais et d’un jeu et de deux films en japonais…… hihihi.

pour répondre à certains : tout a fait c’est un OUTIL LINGUISTIQUE !!! D’ailleurs dans TALES OF ETERNIA j’avance pas mal et je comprends l’histoire, pour MONSTER HUNTER par contre j’ai un peu de mal à comprendre quels éléments je suis en train d’acheter.

Mais là je suis encore plus ureshii vu que j’ai trouvé L’INTEGRALE de YAMATO NADESICOO ( la petite fleur du Japon) qui est la première serie sur laquelle j’ai craquée ici et que j’ai aussi pris les épisodes 1 5 et 6 de DRAGON ZAKURA dont je vais enfin connaitre la fin.

J’ai même eu un super cadeau de bubu Jimmy chan: un éventail avec YAMAPI dessus

IIN JA NAI ???

In kanazawa

kanazawa

I forgot to talk about my trip to KANAZAWA using my railpass. I had already been there some year ago to see the famous garden KENROKU EN and the geisha house SHIMA.

SHIMA





This time I just saw the two geisha houses ( see the link under). I love Shima because it’s really quiet and you can have maccha and cake in the little room facing the garden for 700 yen. Last time I had been there I was alone taking a tea and this time too, it was so relaxing. I’ll put the picture of the little pink bowl whose colous exactly matched the one of my sweet later with all the others.

   a moment of pure bliss

The other geisha house is much more gaudy but still very interesting, when you see it from outside you don’t dare to go because it looks like a restaurant. Inside the first thing you see is a huge staircase.

the fusuma are painted, some more recently and the inside garden is decorated with shards of glass







view of the inside garden

A good thing to know, both houses give you a reduction if you present your one day bus pass ( the loop bus pass for 500 yen)

http://ochaya-shima.com/english/index.html

http://photojapan.com/index.htm/kanazawa.html

shopping on that day’ 3 pairs of chopsticks, one showing a rabbit on a silver background, the other two have ends that look like lollipops in acid green and shocking pink

shinobazu ike and shibuya

OK the bubu has found his way to ASAKUSA. Today we walked to UENO’S SHINOBAZU IKE pond to watch the lotus flowers, it’s still as lovely as always and so relaxing… then we had a look at TAKASHIMAYA TIME SQUARE in SHINJUKU to try to find a book by ARIEL LEVY.

The title is female chauvinist pigs or the rise of raunch culture and neither Kinokunya nor the other in shibuya seem to carry it. Actually in Shibuya the till guy had a heavy dose of gold glitter round his eyes, it was fun.

I had to restrain the bubu from stealing a naruto truck but we took a picture.

NO !!! Bubu, leave that truck alone !!!!

Shopping until now has been very light, just a « night before xmas » notebook and a gothic strap teddy bear for my niece, some hello kitty too..

Mes vieux dramas coup de coeur : Kekkon dekinai otoko avec Hiroshi Abe

Abe Hiroshi est un acteur que j’aime bien et qui joue dans pas mal de drama.

Dans « kekkon dekinai otoko » (« Man who Can’t Get Married ») il joue un homme qui n’arrive pas à se marier. Et effectivement ses capacités à draguer ne sont pas excellentes.

Ils ne l’ont pas raté, qu’est ce qu’ils lui ont fait comme coiffure? alors qu’il est plutôt canon … deshoo Saachi san????

Quelques photos tirées du drama

Bon à part « Kekkon Dekinai Otoko » l’homme qui ne peut pas se marrier Hiroshi Abe a joué dans de nombreux dramas comme My Little Chef .

マイリトルシェフ

Il parle même français c’est trop drôle !!! Surtout dans la 1ère scène!

Il est bien plus sexy … comme ça …

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Ici il est dans Dragonzakura !

et dans My Little Chef http://wiki.d-addicts.com/My_Little_Chef

Suimi de Every LIttle Thing

les paroles : https://flowlez.com/en/songs/suimi-swimmy-496516/

kinosaki onsen and tsumago

Back from KINOSAKI ONSEN which was still lovely and where I took so many baths, I’m trying to put the pics on the website but from where I am it doesn’t seem to work , will try later

riddle… it’s like a crunchy cookie and it has legs and I had it as an appetizer for dinner in my minshuku in TSUMAGO….. what is it?

Well I went back to TSURUYA RYOKAN which I highly recommend since the owner is nice and speaks English, he even advised me to see the fireworks, and the ryokan is in the center of town.

I spent two days basically hopping from onsen to onsen and doing nothing else. Also had a nice lunch and dinner in a small restaurant serving fish and shells… lovely sazae and hotate…grilled.

my neighbour was an old japanese lady from Osaka who gave me her sashimi because she didn’t want it and we had been in the same onsen.

It was so relaxing

I hope they take me there again because when I left I forgot my room key in my pocket and only realized when I was already in the train…. ya daaaa!!!

Then it took me from 9.30 to 4 to arrive in TSUMAGO, a lovely village in the KISO VALLEY.

I quite fell in love with MINSHUKU DAIKICHI and with the village in itself because it looks just as if a samourai was about to cross the street and even the postman is wearing edo jidai clothes.

You can see some pictures on this link

http://www.quirkyjapan.or.tv/kisoji.htm

The next day I walked 8 kilometres to the village of MAGOME I must say I thought I was going to die but the hike is very pleasant. I would suggest to do it from Magome because it’s down most of the way while from Tsumago it was mostly up. The path goes along the river with a waterfall at some point and lovely houses, you can even buy vegetables… they are just there in a bucket of cold water with the price and you put the money on a little shelf.

Magome is built on the hill and I had never seen a village built that way because it’s so steep.

It’s more touristy than Tsumago (there’s even a Magome Kitty) I think, you get big highway buses stopping there with their share of foreigners and japanese.

I came back by bus and relaxed before dinner.

that’s all Tsumago and Magome

My lovely lunch at daikichi ryokan (oishiiii)

leaving Tsumago there is a lovely fountain

Then ready to walk 8km uphill all the way in the forest to Magome

the village is built on the hill

OK I’m going to reveal what I had for dinner as an appetizer it was grasshopper ( yeah 3 of them ) they are called inago in japanese.

They taste just like little biscuits with legs, they are very crunchy.

OOOOO le petit biscuit avec des pattes !!!

And here’s Kinosaki onsen.

My lovely breakfast at Ryokan Tsuruya

a little frog outside the onsen signals the feet bath, in front of the station you can see the geta with the name of all the ryokans

inside one of the changing rooms outside the baths a stamp to keep as a souvenir

in japan now

Well ,I’ve been here since July 7th and it’s been very hot and humid. UNO HOUSE is still the same only the prices have risen up and the dorms are now 1950 yen a night which is a little bit expensive since there is no aircon but the central location and the atmosphere still make it a great place. We walked back from karaoke at 6 am yesterday and were glad it was so close.

The first week was kind of quiet with a few gaijins only. The first karaoke I went to was only to sleep in for one hour with Kinuko chan but we also tried a great restaurant in Pontocho.The cook found Kinuko chan and me funny and he gave us some suppon no chi (it’s a kind of turtle blood) to drink with sake. It’s supposed to make you genki, well I was so genki that I couldn’t sleep all night long.

Gion matsuri was really interesting (before the 17th when the rain set in) and I took some pictures and videos of the Chigosan (he’s the chosen boy who stands on the main float) in Yasaka Jinja.

I also discovered this cafe between Yasaka Jinja and Entoku in where they serve a marvellous maccha float in picturesque surroundings. There’s the sound of running water and you can watch caps swimming in the pond.

I’m so surprised that the Lonely Planet doesn’t mention ENTOKU IN because it’s quite one of my favourite temples, it’s got a karesansui (dry) garden and wonderful screens with a white dragon swimming in the waves and fishing birds. It’s a lovely place to sit and relax and they sell a combined ticket for DAITOKUJI with a little present (either postcards or a tenigui handkerchief) for 9000 yen.

Then with some of the funny crowd from Uno House I went to ARASHI YAMA to see the bamboo forest and some of the temples, TENRYUJI and DAIKAKUJI. We managed to get into a little hut next to the river just before it began to pour, goof for us they had some potato kuroke so we were able to satisfy the needs of « kurokke chan » ( sorry Ade)

I’ll put pictures of Jimmy, Ade,Tobias and Jason later.We WANT him … No MIKI chan I was him first !!!

Friends from UNO HOUSE STAFF (but they left)

with bubu chan and ade

Mes vieux dramas coup de coeur: Dragonzakura (ドラゴン桜)

C’est le début de l’année scolaire au lycée Ryuuzan. La directrice annonce à tous les enseignants que l’école a fait faillite et qu’ils se retrouveront tous au chomage. Ryuuzan est le plus mauvais lycée de Tokyo, surnommé le lycée des cancres et personne ne veut plus financer les dettes.

Sakuragi Kenji (Abe Hiroshi) est un avocat pour qui les affaires ne vont pas fort et qui traîne un passé de délinquant de la route derrière lui. C’est lui qui est envoyé à Ryuuzan pour officialiser la fermeture du lycée.
Après avoir été froidement accueilli au lycée autant par l’équipe enseignante, au lieu de se contenter de fermer l’établissement, il lui vient une idée folle, celle d’envoyer 5 élèves à Todai (l’Université de Tokyo, la plus réputée du Japon) cette année, pour redresser la situation et redorer l’image du lycée.