JAPANEXILE

After a very long hiatus I finally make another post. I’ve become a bit of a book worm/Japanese language obsessive lately, trying to study as much as I can. So free time has been limited, much to the detriment of this blog. I can’t say I’m sorry though, I’ve finally started to enjoy studying, so have little intention of stopping. Its really satisfying to really commit yourself to something and see the fruits of those labors realized. Something I wish I had realised during my school years. I had actually writen this next post 3 months ago, and even then it was 3 months old. But since I had already done it seemed a waste not to post it.

Yoyogi kouen (Yoyogi park). Yoyogi park is as the name might suggest – a park, a big park at that, very centrally located next to Haraujuku station. Contained within the park is Meiji Shrine, one of the larger and more famous Shrines within central Tokyo. I actually went there back in January shortly after New Year, which as I found out was the same time several thousand Japanese people go there. So, it er, didn’t quite have the peaceful temple feel. The park itself is really nice, and the sheer amount of people there actually served to amaze and impress me, rather than than irritation I felt when I was in Kyoto temple viewing (a future post). We did the traditional prayer when we finally made it up to the temple. Throwing my hundred coin about 6 metres over the people in front of me. Minami very narrowly missed the heads of those in front of her. Nothing else really to say about Yoyogi, not that I can remember anyway, was over three months ago…crikey that’s gone quickly. (Now 6, where is the strike through formatting option. PS. I’ve just given up trying to get the photos on the rest of the site working how they used to, I just can’t take the stress anymore.