Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Asakusa, Akihabara and Disneyland

These are just photos off my phone from the last few days. We haven't figured out how to get photos from my camera onto the computer yet, and we have lots more/nicer photos than these, but for the time being we though we would just upload these 'uns. Also, Katoomba: stop being on fire!! We hope that everyone is okay and safe!! Much love - Anni (and Luci says hi too)


Photo 1, 2 & 3: Our home town on a sunny afternoon. We walk over this gorgeous bridge everyday from our hostel to the subway. Even the giant golden sperm building looks particularly beautiful as it catches the afternoon light.
Photo 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8: at a games arcade in akihabara. Akihabara is the craziest town full of anime and manga and games arcades (like the 6 level Sega games arcade) and pachinko palours and tonnes of seedy sexualised plastic anime figures and cheap electronics and maid cafes and endless tiny alleyways of electronica that made us feel like we were Deckard in Bladerunner.
Photo 9: Tokyo disneysea! We went last night, to try and avoid the crowds, but it was still pretty crowded. Still, we managed to get on 4 rides & Luci lost his roller-coaster virginity on a loop-de-loop high speed steel coaster that was themed as an ancient incan sacrifice tower or something like that. It was pretty fun.
Photo 10: taken while waiting in a queue for 40 minutes for another queue which eventually got us on a rollercoaster called "journey to the centre of the earth". Even in the queues, the detail they put into the theme of the ride is just ridiculous. This photo shows juat part of a whole 19th century explorers lab built inside a massive fake volcano (which spewed MASSIVE fireballs every 5 minutes.
Photo 11: just chilling with ma new friend outside a pachinko palour in asakusa.
Photo 12: the beautiful Buddhist temple just 10 minutes from our hostel and the rows of markets (nakemisa street) leading up to it
Photo 13: mmm. Ouiishi. (That means delicious in Japanese)
Photo 14: wandering through the Buddhist temple in asakusa late at night



























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