Southern island of Japan -めんそーれ(^_^)/-

Well here are pictures which my parents took during their trip. They have been to Okinawa from the 15th to 17th, March. It's already warm like 23℃ in there(it looks like the same as Taipei). It was a short trip but they enjoyed staying in there, including okinawan food and culture, beautiful views..etc. Personally I've never been there :( So I would like to go some day! I'm really curious to see it!!
You can get some informations about Okinawa through these sites ⇒⇒Click here! and Click here too! ;)

Monkey's paradise

We have been to Nikko (in Tochigi prefecture) on the 6th and 7th with Julien by train. We took an express train from Asakusa and arrived at Tobu Nikko station after 2 hours. We were late in Nikko as we couldn't go sightseeing when we arrived (-_-;) Most of the temples are closed at 4pm, so be careful if you go to Nikko by one day trip, you can not see anything after 4pm! :P We decided to stay in Nikko so we went directly to Ryokan(japanese hotel) on foot. The ryokan looked old, and we heard some strange sounds during we stayed in there (>_<) Kowaaaaaiii!! But actually ryokan was good except that because it was cheap(5,400yen /1 person), room was not so small, and we could take an onsen(hot spring)! It was really good :) We had dinner in a small Izakaya. I think this izakaya is for foreigners because we could see a lot of business or students cards, messages, pictures, money...etc. on the wall which those people left. Foods are typical japanese food like yakitori, tsukune(chicken meat balls), yakisoba, gyoza, and rice! Actually it was good especially gyoza, oishii desu! :P > Madame of Izakaya she was funny and nice. She can speak some English also :) It's different from Izakaya where I usually go but it was ok. It looked like "family izakaya". There was a boy who is a son of waitress, he was reading a book at the same table during we were having dinner for example...
We woke up early next moring and we went to see Toshogu shrine and other shrines also. Actually it was the first time to visit those shrines for me, I've never visited there and it's been a long time since I came to Nikko. So it was good to see :) We saw students who came to Nikko for school trip. Sorry for Julien as they didn't offer to take a picture with him :P But they greeted us in Japanese, English, and French. (I guess their teacher forced them to greet when they meet someone on the way...)
One of the interesting stuff in the Toshogu shrine, it is called "鳴竜(Nakiryu)". There is a ceiling which the dragon was drawn, and when the guy clapped the rhythm woods under the head of dragon, the ceiling and floor resonate and you can hear the sounds like a tinkle of a bell. And people said it sounds like dragon's cry, that's why it's called Nakiryu(crying dragon).

We were supposed to see monkeys in Nikko. (yes, we were supposed to see!) Because Nikko is a famous place where you can see a lot of monkeys on a road in the mountain. Unfortunately we couldn't see them at all. Zannen desu!

N'importe quoi les japonais! -Nihonjin wa omoshiroi desu-

Well, here are some interesting pictures. We walked from Shibuya to Harajuku, pass through Yoyogi park on the way. We saw some perfomances in the street, and this is one of them. They are perfomer's group called "Fugi" (they called it so themselves..). I think they are an old-fashioned style but it was funny actually, especially the guy ride a scooter, he was funny :P
You can see many perfomers including some strange guys in this street. I think it is very japanese side like you saw by the movies, some kind of stereotype :P

Le diner nostalgique?

We've been to Creperie in Omotesando last Saturday with Julien and Yuko. I've heard about this restaurant by my teacher of french lesson. It's named "LE BRETAGNE" and there are 2 restaurants in Tokyo(Kagurazaka and Omotesando). The waiters and waitress can speak french and also cook is french man(Yuko liked him as he was a good looking guy :P). We ordered pate de porc, cidre, beer(for Julien), and galettes of course :) I had a galette with tomato, cheese, mushroom, and ham as you can see the picture of it. (aaahh sumimasen, I forgot to take a picture before I eat because I was starving...) It was really good actually. C'etait tres bon! Anyway check it if you're interested ;)