171 - No, We Didn't Actually Try The Restaurant...

163 - Yoshinoya

Fast food in Japan doesn't necessarily mean McD's. Yoshinoya is a very popular chain selling gyuudon, and other similar ball dishes (rice and some meat). It's quite okay, and way better for your health compared to a good old Big Mac.

159 - Former Naval Headquarters

Okinawa was a spot of major strategic importance in WWII -- due to its location you could bomb pretty much everything important from there without too much trouble. No wonder that vicious battles have been fought here with casualties like 100 thousand Japanese people and 12.5 thousand American soldiers. The Americans methodically scorched the whole island*, so the number of civilian casualties is extremely high.

This is an underground bunker, that used to be a Japanese Navy Headquarters. Quite spooky..

* Well, not that they had much of a choice. War's tough.

157 - Shimauta

Shimauta is an Okinawan style, which ingeniously mixes traditional elements with new ones. The guy is playing a shamisen. (I know, you only recognize one if it's played by a geisha...)

Check out the video to get the a feeling. Sorry for the crappy quality.

155 - Stocking Up

The first moment Ohno san (right) seemed utterly happy during the trip.

152 - Condomania

The romance between two condoms, Emily and George.* How moving.

You can find these shops in many places in Tokyo, you can buy all sorts of weird condoms, and other funny things like penis shaped lollipops and key chains. Not bad for a nation being notorious for having sex only once in a month or so...

* No, I'm not making this shit up, the names are actually written in the bubbles. Yeah, those wacky Japanese. Who the hell is coming up with these ideas? 2 condoms in love promoting safe sex? What the heck do they use for that? Surely not an other condom, that is called a threesome and even less safe. And why is safe sex important for condoms anyway? And why Emily and George? Why not Hitomi and Takeshi? Why gaijin condoms? There's no such thing as a Japanese condom, or what?

Hell, this world can be so complicated sometimes.

119 - Harajuku Girl

Gwen Stefani sang a song recently about Harajuku Girls, praising their wicked style. Well sure, it is pretty wicked.

You can find them every day at Harajuku station, near the entrance of Yoyogi park, and Meiji Jingu shrine, but you might want to go on Sunday, when they are out in crowd. You should also check out Takeshita dori, a small street near the station full of shops selling these weird designer stuff. Usually this street is so full of people like the first row of a rock concert, and it's pretty funny.

114 - Retrokonomiyaki

That's right, food again. We are fixing some okonomiyaki, which can be translated as "I was lazy, so you fry it". Okay, so it is some sort of dough bit like pancakes, you mix it with meat, weird stuff people find in sea known as seafood, and some even weirder stuff called vegetables, which is apparently something animals eat, I mean the species not smart enough to figure out during thousands of billions whatever years that eating other animals makes you stronger, since you get their soul.

So usually you get everything separately, so you can fry it yourself, it's supposed to be fun. Fun, yeah, sure. Perhaps for people without computers. Anyway, the fun part was when we finished eating, so that we had a biiig flat hot surface, some ice cubes from the drinks, and a bunch of chopsticks, which means: ice hockey madness!

BTW you all know that ice hockey, originally invented by the Brits, was meant to be played like this, on a huge field of white-hot metal, and ice cubes strapped to the players feet, but when adopted by the Americans, they made it "safer", and obviously less fun. (You pussies). Same with the rugby: if your grunts in Iraq would wear the same amount of kevlar as an american-football player you'd have far less casualties for crying out loud! What is it with the football anyway, there's one kind of football, and it's soccer.

What I wanted to say: that's how you make okonomiyaki.


Boy, what a silly post. Funny how you can make über-düper shitty pictures almost okay by screwing around with contrast and colors. Actually I sort of like this picture.

91 - Kamakura

84 - National Science Museum, Tokyo

80 - art, i guess...(?)

Mit nem adnék egy olyan kreatív elméért, ami nem csak egy rohadt szakócát tud beleképzelni ebbe az akármibe. Szoborba.

72 - Shodo, Japanese Calligraphy

70 - Andras, The Gayish Samurai

58 - Bathroom á lá Japan

A fürdőszobám. A japán fürdési szokások egy érdekes vetülete itt.

54 - Blood

Képrejtvény: merre jártam péntek reggel? Tippelni a kommentekben!

53 - Korean Leftovers

51 - Sushi

Óriási szusi adagok egy yokosukai bárban. Ha anyukámra hallgatok, és nem tömök be mindig 5 falat ételt egyszerre a számba, akkor ugyanvalóst most bajban lettem volna, ugyanis a szusit egyben kell megenni, félbeharapni, és visszatenni illetlenség. Nem könnyű.

49 - First Day Of Chinese New Year

Chinatown, Yokohama.

47 - Umeshu

Szaké japán szilvával, egy igazán finom japán ital.

40 - Barentainu Dei

Haha, már megint valami, amit ősbénán mondanak ki. Valentin nap ugyan csak pár nap múlva lesz, de most nem jutott eszembe más amit fotózhatnék. De ha már így alakult:
A japánok minden külső nyomásnak azonnal engednek (lévén nincs saját kultúrájuk, haha) így a Valentin nap is gyorsan meghonosodott. Természetesen ezt is egy plusz fondorlatosítással vették át, ugyanis itt a lányok vesznek a fiúknak csokoládét, ilyen szépet, drágáér'. Mért ne, ha én is kitalálhatok új szavakat.
Mielőtt, srácok, megvennétek a jegyet a félhetes gépre, elárulom, hogy nem borotválják. A lányok meg ne háborodjanak fel, mert márciusban tartják a White Day-t, amikoris a fiúk vesznek a lányoknak akármit, hatszor drágábbé'.
Ez így megy, sőt általában is igaz az, hogy Japánban a nők elnyomják férjeiket.
Remélem nem olvassa ezt valamelyik srác a holnapi képről, akinek japán felesége van, mert még megmondaná, hogy nincs igazam, engem meg szétvetne megint az ideg...