A Piece of Paper in My Wallet

I found a piece of paper in my wallet: it has a name and email address of a charming young lady we met in Kooenji during the Awa-Odori. I thought Kummari had it but I was the guilty one here. She asked us to email her. I will, I promise.

During the first days in Finland I consumed huge amounts of red meat in my kitchen. While I loved the food in our favorite places in Kooenji and I did not crave for red meat in Japan I did crave for it when I returned to Finland.

After heavy selecting I still have 3845 photoes which I consider to be candidate for publishing. Way too much. TJ has been more efficient and he has published pictures. I have just shown a few pictures and picture collections to my friends and relatives.

Next time I write here is probably when I publish my travel diary.

Escaping the Typhoon

Well, I did not go to Mitsutooge. Instead I went to Meiji Jingu which has a wonderful garden, especially the inner one, and a Shinto shrine.

On Monday, after the con finished, we took some pictures of Nippon Maru and then left for Togos flagship Mikasa. An impressive, and unique, ship and it was amusing to note that the shop of the ship sold Finnish beer Amiraali which has Togo in the label.

Yesterday we visited Kamakura which was the capital more than a century around 1100. A buddhist temple, a former nunnery, another buddhist temple and then a hike to Daibutsu, the Great Buddha. After that we went to Enoshima, a sea side resort near Kamakura. I hope that some of the hawk pictures are good.

A typhoon will probably hit Tokyo in a few days. Today it was raining and we escaped to Matsumoto where there is one of the four castles which are National Treasures of Japan. The castle was wort of its fame and I was lucky and a volunteer guide came to me and said that he would very much like to be my guide. So we got a very personal presentation of Matsumoto-jo.

Tomorrow welll head for Kyoto, Hiroshima and Kure. We escape the rains. Maybe when well return the typhoon will be in full rage over Tokyo.

Last (whole) day of the con

In the morning the sun was shining, and it was over 25 already at 11. Now it's cloudy.
I managed to catch the trains perfectly, and it took me less than an hour to get to Yokohama from Koenji. Last night we took a train straight to Tokyo from Sakuraguchi station in Yokohama. Easy but slow, as the train was a local train stopping at each and every station between Yokohama station and Tokyo station. The same for local train to Koenji.

I just escaped "Discworld 101", which wasn't very interesting for me. I wasn't surprised that Japanese translators find Pratchett hard to translate...
Soon I'll go and see how long queue is at the Brin book signing, after that a lunch. And after that the rest of the day in panels and shows.

Ari planned to go and see Mt. Fuji from a nearby smaller mountain. Well, the sun isn't shining anymore here in Yokohama, but it might at Fuji. And tomorrow it should be sunny - good for sightseeing Yokohama.

World Wide Worst Foods Show

At 19:00 there was a World Wide Worst Foods Show. Several kinds of fermented soy beans, fish that smelled absolutely horrible (we moved upwind because of the wind), bee larvae, silk worm pupae and so on. I wonder why habanero and wasabi soft drink were on the list, though.

The show was termninated when a guard came. I suppose it was the fish. I certainly do not blame the guard.

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At the Worldcon

Cool today, under 25. And cloudy. Ari too came today to the con, just now we went to see a samurai movie, and a short swordplay show before it. Soon it's time for the Hugos.

The Ghibli Museum

On Sunday we visited the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. Its quite small and maybe better suited for children than adults but the museum was still interesting and it was a very nice to visit it.

For lunch we had hot dogs and bottles of beer. The beer is specially bottled for the museum and the bottles will make a nice souvenir.