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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Ueno park and Okonomiyaki

Today at work we were given 30 extra minutes to our normal one hour lunch break.  A co-worker and I took advantage of that time and decided to wander around Ueno park.  It was a gorgeous winter day and the fall colors were awesome.  It was so great to see a lot of new things at Ueno park that I haven't seen before.  After work I met with other colleagues for okonomiyaki.  It was delicious and the women who worked there were so nice.  When we left one of the women actually gave us lollipops, haha!

tori

many many toris

more toris

the shrine

really like the tori

cool statue

favorite pic of the day

dragon with colors

the entrance

a different style temple

never saw anything like this before

front of the temple

hair pagoda

cleaning leaves

interesting red berries on the tree

copper lanterns

nice bell

lots of gold

a LOT of gold

contrasting

more copper lanterns

everlasting flame

paper cranes

GIANT gingko tree

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delicious okonomiyaki

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Moshi Moshi Festival

I was lucky enough to find some advertisements online for free tickets to the Moshi Moshi Festival.  I wasn't 100% sure what kind of event it was going to be, but it looked like fun. I got tickets for both Saturday and Sunday, but just managed to go on Sunday.  It was a great day to go to the event because it was raining most of the day.  There were lots of booths with all different kinds of Japanese things.  I got to listen to J-Pop and some traditional music combined with a dj mixing in the background.  It was such an awesome day!

Moshi Moshi Festival!!!

on top of a giant dragon like thing

a robot lady??

don`t have an international license, so could`t do this.......

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inside the Moshi Moshi Festival

Awesome music!!

Tempura Kids
with a model......didn`t know models could be so short, lol
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dressed in Lolita wear

Crazy animal heads that you can`t even see out of!

posing with some girls in awesome clothing

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now im in the kimono

a couchsurfing friend and i

posing with the ladies again

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another performance 

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

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reunion after 3 years!

delicious soup

couchsurfers

nice lights and shinjuku

more lights

a Christmas tree

more lights