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Japan ... of Bintang to Sake!

Konnichiwa! (Tribunero nor there ...)

Saturday 1st May, came to power Japan ... we flew from Bali to Tokyo on a flight once again starved us and made my first impression of Japanese is almost hate to call ... could not show fun food dinner they gave us ... so that these weaknesses are not

tipitos ... Anyway, we got to Tokyo, and then took a train to Kyoto, where we would meet with a guest character in this story ... the black man from Luxembourg came to see us! We doses of black to Hong Kong ...

You always get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat they can expect from a city, either by stories he heard from other people, books, TV ... Honestly I can not say I know too Kyoto, but the image I had prior to the arrival of a city was much more typical, while maintaining traditions almost intact, as if still living two hundred years ago ... with temples and houses with architecture typical of those rare and little roof geishas picturesque lakes ... ... everywhere ...

have enough of that, it's really an amazing city like everything we've seen from Japan, but also appears to be a very modern and technological, and I think that makes you lose a bit of the mystique had in my head ...

The day we took the opportunity to give some back around, we went to a temple and then Kyoto National Museum (the dose of culture of the month) ... The temple is picturesque, like many we saw ... I made you out your shoes when entering, and we saw people saying his prayers kneeling on the floor as shown in the movies ... once again exposed this little game was dream-reality to which we are already used to it ... a lot of that you see in the movies, but unless Sony has invented the cinema in 6 dimensions it is no longer a film is the simple reality ...

The museum also was good ... it was all a show on one of its major artists, a Buddhist painter named Hasegawa Tohaku ... obviously no idea who is this value, but what interested me most was that the paintings are all from the sixteenth century, or whether they have almost 500 years ... it is a rare sensation of seeing something that was painted many years ago ... it's like it's not normal for we handle those numbers back if it is in wonderful stories ...

The hostel amazing truth ... K's House Kyoto ... very neat and clean (you can not expect anything from these people) ... to make you shoes off when you are entering to not litter the floor ... I think that is everywhere, in temples is also at least as well .... recommendation, go with something easy to get, because you'll end unlacing 20 times in one day ...

Anyway, the first night we went to walk toward the center of Kyoto, and had dinner in a very cute and quaint little place, typical of the place, sitting on the floor and all ... most ask dishes ... I jumped to try a dish of raw fish that do not even know if they called sushi, but as I was dancing ... here do not speak English a damn, it's amazing ... it shows clearly that there is nothing we need to ... poverty abounded in Sumatra, but all speak English ... why? Simple ... living from tourism, if not speak English clearly not eat ... here is the opposite ... do not depend for us than for us to buy your Nikon cameras, so I barely speak English and does not seem interested in understanding what they're asking ... so I was kind of hard to make ourselves understood in that restaurant, but the fish came out ... luckily it was quite good and However, apart from that it was obvious ... je anecdotal. Pieces of fish had Globe and other less famous fish ... like I can not lie, this was not blowfish thousands of dollars that is poisonous and what not ... it was just cheap ...

It's amazing how clean they are Japanese ... I do not see dirt in the streets, there ... and not because people have 24 hours cleaning them is simply that the types do not get dirty ... in fact, it is incredibly difficult to find a trash can in the street, usually puts some trade in the door, but garbage dumps did not see one ... the truth that my level of frustration with this issue is such that I was about to start throwing everything into the streets in protest ... but I did not, I'm calm ... just go with the enormous question of what to do with the trash ...

The Second day, Sunday 2, we start to Nara and Osaka, using the Japan Rail Pass great buy comes from Montevideo and performing like crazy ...

re Nara is a picturesque city, a bit of style than I expected also to Kyoto with many temp the parks ... We went to a temple where a giant statue of Buddha, as 40 meters high, and we took in full ceremony we do not know very well what it was but there was a very big production, with many people involved, other outfits very elegant and varied ... the presence of the media did think it was something important ... and well, in the end fell a float in a tipitos that it could have been the Dalai Lama ... in 15 years that I can have someone create it and all ... heh.

On the night we went to Osaka, a distance that took us several trains, losses and bad moods, but finally came to fruition ...

Unfortunately we were recently in Osaka, and did not give us or to see the giant wheel that is apparently very good, but we walked a while in the middle, the city all lit, crowded, we had dinner at a little place out there and went back to sleep ...

Kyoto Monday 3, went to Hiroshima, first passing through a very beautiful island called Miyajima ... no need to comment on what's famous Hiroshima, and was something we needed to see this close ... somehow try to get a bit to what is the feeling of the people living there and who felt the force of the bomb very up close ...

The memorial museum is very good ... listen to stories about the fate of so many people, in addition to understanding a little more how the events occurred (at least the Japanese version) is very interesting ... is very strong at times, especially at the end where he starts to tell stories of people who were killed in the explosion, either by the impact of it at the time or by radiation and its consequences in the days following ...

Back from Hiroshima, Clari, Lua and Germany had to take the train from Kyoto to Tokyo, but because of a chocolate cake and cream we lost ... fortunately it was good but was a complete frustration ...

The last day in Kyoto we went with the rest of the band (Santi, Nico, Ximena, Bruno, Black, Fede and Agus) to a temple and we had recommended n Kyoto Kiyomizu-Dera ... a truly impressive Buddhist temple, the prettiest of Kyoto without doubt ... the whole scenario that needed to Kyoto was what I had imagined ...

After the temple we came to Tokyo ... starting the difference between a city and the other is abysmal, though that was supposed ...

arrived and we met again with l as girls, and we give a around around ... we went to the busiest intersection in the world! Shibuya, a junction of 4 roads which also has diagonal crosses (ie, 6-way total), and between traffic lights and traffic lights are accumulating thousands of people flood the green light ... 2 million people per day crossing ! Sure, it sounds much saltier than it really is ... we crossed about 6 times as a novelty, and obviously we had to leave any trace, taking pictures and filming the encounters in the middle of the street as good tourists ... heh.

Then we went to a new technological area called Akihabara, but it was pretty half had no hair ... art stuff, and was not cheap, so it's not worth it ... another day we went to the Sony building and there they saw more new and interesting things, like the famous 3D TV! the future comes with tutti ...

Wednesday 5, day 2 in Tokyo, we went early to the Imperial Palace with its gardens and everything, and it was pretty cute ... the palace can not enter because it seems that the Emperor does not cup to see just risen, but the outside looks quite picturesque gardens ... also very nice ... I got the picture plum!

rendidora After that visit, went to do a walk through Shinjuku, knowing a little about the city to foot, and after the late afternoon we went to Tokyo Tower, an Eiffel tower style but less glamorous, and we went to see the city at dusk from above ... hostel early for a few beers, dinner and bedtime ...

Today we woke up at 4 am to go to Tsuki fish market, a sort of model but fish market, which handles all of the Tokyo market fishmonger auction right there ... a giant tuna measuring over a meter long, and it is very interesting to see the Japanese bids for each whole tuna ...

bought a bag of prawns to cook 1 kg noon today, which can have a taste especially if it beat Cruzeiro bag ... heh.

Today pint quiet day, with naps and just a little walk around here, except that as a good judoka black faithful are going to send to the Kodokan (the mecca of judo) and will see if you can pay for it rubber do ...

Good Japanese beer, sake is not pure as I thought ... sake is actually quite ... seems fulero vodka mixed with water, which has little grace ... Unless Santi take 3 glasses and start doing silly things with the Japanese ...

then destination Beer: Asahi, in several ways ...

now to enjoy some mates before the game, and after dreaming of a roast in the nap ... Arigato!