7 days..

Jeg ved ikke helt hvad jeg skal skrive, saa her er et billede af Kristoffer med en avis origami kasse paa hovedet:

Spoeg til side, vi har nu vaeret i Japan i en uge, vi har vaeret vaeret i roppongi - det mest kendte sted for udlaendinge, folk der taler engelsk alle vegne, naesten, wow!

Vi proevede japansk karaoke, saa cosplay for boern, sad et forbudt sted paa et tempel, fik vores fortunes - 2 gange og sidst men ikke mindst har vi vaeret i nogen af tokyos parker, alt dette og mere paa de kommende billeder:)

So, we have now been in japan for 7 whole days, we have been to Roppongi - the most famous place for foreigners, english - talking - people, almost everywhere, WOW!

We have tried Karaoke, watched cosplay for small children, been sitting at a bad spot in a temple, gotten our fortunes - twice and last but not least we have been to some of Tokyo's parks, all this and more on the comming pictures;)

In this picture we see Kristoffer at Sakusa, a big marketplace almost like The Yellow Market in Prague.



Paa dette billede ser vi saa Kristoffer pose paa Sakusa, et stort marked naesten ligesom det gule marked i Prag.











This is at the Sakusa temple, in this picture we see our very nice guide Luna, which during this whole trip guided us trough everything.
also Simon and Me picked our first fortunes(mikushi) at this shrine beyond this large building, Simon pulled the lucky straw and rolled a "very lucky", me... yeah im just ordinary - yayness! Also, in the inner temple beyond this building we threw a coin and made a wish, lets hope it comes true!




Dette er Sakusa templet, paa dette billede ser vi vores super-guide Luna som under hele turen guidede os igennem selv de mindste detaljer. Ogsaa ved dette shrine fik Simon sin lykke spaaet(mikushi) for foerste gang, han trak det laengste straa og fik "heldigst", Luna og mig trak desvaerre bare almindeligt held, som, bare lige for at sige det ikke er det vaerste da der er et hav af ulykkelige grader af held, derudover fik vi paa traditionel vis oensket i den indre del af templet, lad os haabe vores oenske gaar i opfyldelse!













Here we see Simon mocking the buddist gods, still at the temple, and me capturing this disgracefull act on film ;)



Her ser vi saa Simon vaere blasfemisk overfor de japansk-buddistiske guder, og mig fange oejeblikket paa kamera;)







At this picture we see the statue of Hachikou, the symbol of loyalty to many japanese people still today, to read the story about hachikou go to http://www.wikipedia.com/ and search for hachikou. The story about hachikou fascinated people all over the world, and has been made into a film in 2009, the fill is called "A dog's Tale".

Paa dette billede ser vi statuen rejst af Hachikou, Hachikou er selv den dag idag et symbol for mange japanere for trofasthed, man kan laese en udredning af historien paa http://www.wikipedia.com/, bare soeg under hachikou inde under soegefunktionen. Historien om Hachikou har gennem tiden fascineret mange mennesker verden over og blev filmatiseret i 2009, filmen hedder "A dog's tale".





THATS ALL FOLKS, stay tuned, theres plenty more stories and pictures, but if we should upload them all we would be sitting inside all day, and we can't have that can we ;)?

Det var det hele for denne gang, foelg med! der er masser af yderligere historier, men hvis vi skulle dele hver eneste ville vi sidde indenfor hele dagen, og det kan vi jo ikke have kan vi;)?

Simon and Kristoffer - Signing out

wedensday, wedensday and friday

Where do we even begin?

First of all it's Thursday. The world is just one day ahead of reality. We arived in the airport Wednesday noon, where we ended up having to pack our deodorant and sunblock in a box by itself because the guy at the counter gave us the wrong information (luckily we were about 5 hours early so we had plenty of time), and landed in Narita airport 11 hours later to a Japanese security guard nonchalantly asking "So.. Have you ever been to Christania?" luckily he didn't call our bluff and we were let into the country without any problems. Even though we landed 11 hours later to a timedifference 8 hours ahead of Denmark it's clearly still Wednesday, at least that's the logic of a brain that hasn't slept for around 19 hours and arrives in a country at 10 in the morning.

Since our Inside Japanese (henceforth Luna) couldn't meet up with us until 18:00 we had about 8 hours to kill. First things first we had to get away from the airport, a trip ending up taking us about an hour and a half, because we felt like saving about 14 kroner, by paying this un-reasonable fee would've saved ourself half an hour in train...

We decided our first trip should be going to Akihabara, the electric city, to have a look for a jisho (a jisho is a japanese to english electric dictionary), we soon found out that this was as far as we would get with our english as almost none of the merchants knew no more english than yes or no, cheap or expensive etc. we quickly gave up gathering usefull information about the various different models and priceranges here. (sumimaseeen, eigo wo hanashimasu ka? - hanashimasen, was the answer. luckily we managed to explain that we needed a converter for our european charger and we got out of there paying only about 12dkr, our first bargain has turned a success, yay!)

but having used up all our beginners luck we decided to go check out the area where Luna lives and return to the electric city another day, and in the mean time prepare ourselves further to make a good bargain and buy a good jisho.

ok, next stop Asagaya, this is the area which Luna lives, out here, we haven't met a single person speaking english besides the in information booths.

We walked around for the remaining hours and was met by Luna and her former room mate and escorted to her, very small but very charming, apartment. (picture of the view)

This evening we had our first japanese dinner, udon, fish and japanese beer and sake followed by "japanese sleeping style" aka. sleeping on the floor with a blanket - actually it was really nice and several times better than SAS.

The next morning we went to our first big mall, unfortunately we don't remember the name but it was just next to another big center called mylord(milord in japanese), in here we found a bag for Simon, which to everyones surprice has a very specific taste in fashion and bought the most expensive one for the humble price of 18000 yen, around 1100dkr. We also went to Bic Camera to look for a camera and Simon again showing his great shopaholic skills and picking the expensive camera, but it was definately worth it, it costs 29000yen or close to 2000dkr, but it has a very extraordinary performance with zoom for a relatively small digital camera.

-when you enter the shops in the morning, all the shopworkers and owners in the malls stand outside their shop greeting everyone passing by and bidding them a good day, we felt like we entered an amusement park because of all this people acting towards us, and everyone else entering, without any action taken from us other than walking in, it seemed kinda practiced.

The future posts will contain a lot more photos since we do now have a good camera at our disposal.

Danish:

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Vi har det godt, vi har nu et kamera saa der kommer snart billeder op, vores stoerste ekspedition har vaeret til akihabare som er japans elektronik omraade, de kalder det selv elektronikbyen. Vi har faaet smagt japansk mad, oplevet den japanske hede, spist is med hvidt chocolade overtraek med groen the og creme indeni, set japanske shopping centre (de er daelme store), pruttet priser og faaet discount og sidst men ABSOLUT ikke mindst laert at vaerdsaette aircondition!

det var alt for denne gang

- Simon and Kristoffer ^^

"Disclaimer", or the "if I'm going down so are you" post.

This is a shared blog written in part by me (Simon) but also by Kristoffer. Because of this the writing, stories, tone and basically all the bloggy parts that makes a blog will change dramatically depending on who's writing at the time.

We'll do our best at updating the blog, when we have the time, with pictures, stories, little notes, location and everything we can to make sure you know we're okay/to share the awesomeness this trip is going to entail.

As a final note I'll personally write in English and/or Danish just for the hell of it.

- Simon