tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4225538067673947442024-03-14T10:26:53.049+09:00Briefly in Japan — April 2014Tokyo, Kyoto, rail everywhere including remote central Honshu mountains to the west coastDennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-24219799196193119392016-09-20T08:47:00.002+09:002023-02-11T17:57:03.670+09:00What is Kawaii<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Recently I received correspondence from <a href="http://artsy.net/">artsy.net</a> noting my references to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii" target="_blank">kawaii</a> in this blog, notably the <a href="http://brieflyinjapan.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/day-5-tokyo-sunday-part-2.html" target="_blank">cute figures here</a>, see also a <a href="http://brieflyinjapan.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/day-6-forest-water-nostalgia-and-tiny.html" target="_blank">train carriage</a> here, asking me to comment.<br />
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My attention was drawn to <a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/the-art-genome-project-what-is-kawaii" target="_blank">an article here on the evolution of Kawaii in art from the 1970s</a>.<br />
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I am conscious that while kawaii was emerging I was taken by a similarly hard edged but not cute style in the work of <a href="http://www.tokyo-gallery.com/artists/japan/go-yayanagi.html" target="_blank">Yayanagi Go</a>, two of whose works I acquired in the 1970s.<br />
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The work on the right is from a<a href="http://www.institutotomieohtake.org.br/exposicoes/interna/opa-uma-alegre-revelacao-junkokoshino-e-go-yayanagi" target="_blank">n exhibition at the Instituto Tomei Ohtake</a> in Brazil.<br />
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You will see some link to Yayanagi's individual style in this work of <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/takashi-murakami" target="_blank">Takashi Murakami at Artsy</a>.<br />
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The term kawaii was not however new in the 1970s, though Hello Kitty was certainly new then. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> traces the term to Lady Murasaki in the eleventh century and says that:<br />
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<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The original definition of kawaii came from Lady Murasaki's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji" style="background-image: none; background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Tale of Genji">The Tale of Genji</a></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> where it referred to pitiable qualities.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Shiokawa_9-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii#cite_note-Shiokawa-9" style="background-image: none; background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[9]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> During the Shogunate period under the ideology of neo-Confucianism, women came to be included under the term </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">kawaii</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> as the perception of women being animalistic was replaced with the conception of women as docile.</span></blockquote>
So it's historically not an entirely flattering term.<br />
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Wikipedia goes on to explain the modern phenomenon as arising from schoolgirls beginning to write across the page and with modern pens, interspersing drawings. Among early shifts from the page to other forms was to cute pencil cases. This is a <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=japanese+pencil+cases&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU688AU689&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimnoqPtpzPAhXFJZQKHY_aADYQsAQIJw&biw=1891&bih=1082#tbm=isch&q=japanese+pencil+cases+1979" target="_blank">google search for Japanese pencil cases 1979</a>.<br />
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It's reasonable to think that others shared my view of the triviality of kawaii as it emerged.<br />
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There has also developed a worldwide appetite for Japanese <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime" target="_blank">anime</a></i>, an art form with some links to kawaii but going far beyond the cute.<br />
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It seems to me that Kawaii has deeper roots, not just some spontaneous shift in the 1970s. Take for example work of <a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/kamisaka-sekka/" target="_blank">Kamisaka Sekka</a>, 1866-1942.<br />
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Compare with the kawaii work of <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/yoshitomo-nara" target="_blank">Yoshimoto Nara at Artsy</a>, which definitely brings in a naive school pad doodle quality with a common tendency to English language and cultural borrowings.<br />
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The wearing of <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=japanese+school+uniforms+meiji&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU688AU689&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi50J_P0JzPAhWKopQKHQlDAOMQ_AUICCgB&biw=1891&bih=1038" target="_blank">western style school uniforms dates from the Meiji era</a>. The shortening of skirts came in in club wear in the early 1970s from the European miniskirt. The fetish combination of short skirt and maid uniform more recently, notably as driven by <a href="http://brieflyinjapan.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Akihabara" target="_blank">Akihabara</a>. But fetish is something else, <a href="https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/12-types-of-otaku" target="_blank"><i>otaku</i></a>, which overlaps a bit with <i>kawaii</i>.<br />
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There is in some of this (though not in all anime) a peaceful or childlike quality which may also have been a factor (I speculate) in the rise of this as acceptable 'new' art form in postwar Japan in a time when young women sought more freedom, though the art form itself may somewhat trivialise them. Also compare to the much more difficult art form of apprenticing as a <i>geisha</i>, the apprentices called <i>maiko</i>. People rush to photograph maiko in Gion, Kyoto in the evening, here images at <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=maiko%20gion" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>. Simplified stylisation and minimal gesture are of long standing in Japan, in contradistinction from mainstream European art. In collision and synthesis with postmodern, all the rest is commercial success...<br />
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Another perspective, <a href="https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/kawaii" target="_blank">29 <i>kawaii </i>things, from the excellent <i>Japan Talk </i>website</a>.</div>
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We cannot leave this subject without mention of <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=japanese+new+york+girl+band&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0-dS3zZzPAhUCJJQKHUXGDbwQ_AUICCgB&biw=1891&bih=1082" target="_blank">music</a> and without medicine from Cibo Matto.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-10483360475778379302015-03-27T02:45:00.002+09:002015-03-27T02:45:51.290+09:00Hanami begins in 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hanami, the cherry blossom time, is beginning again in Japan, China and Taiwan.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/mar/24/cherry-blossom-season-begins-in-japan-in-pictures" target="_blank">Here at link are photos at </a><i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/mar/24/cherry-blossom-season-begins-in-japan-in-pictures" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>, </i>from which this screenshot.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-87905192238013200482014-08-16T09:27:00.002+09:002014-08-16T09:27:29.133+09:00it's easy, or not so hard anywayI just wrote an entry here about the photos of Japan and other places of Michael Alvis – see below.<br />
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I'm prompted by that also to write about how it can be easy and not too expensive to spend time in Japan. But having asserted that I'll leave you to measure ways and means within your own budget and interests. With hope that it can be done, because it's worth doing, because it will grow new dimensions in your mind, give new understanding of the world.<br />
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We read all the time about the importance of tourism in different places, as well as all the touting by the 'tourist industry'. But the internet makes it possible to bypass the tourist industry: we can find simple or complex flight itineraries, we can find accommodation away from big hotels, we can access train or bus timetables. Maps on smart phones make walking so easy.<br />
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I look in wonder at tour buses passing me by as I walk streets: I am feeling the air and the local life, they chat inwardly about Mrs Smedley up there near the driver, in air-conditioning, en route from one fancy rock lump to another. And they are paying 10 or 20 times more than my local bus or train ticket, infinitely more than my shoe leather, as I move through local life, maintaining my fitness and startling my brain. Their pathway controlled and clocked, mine free and open to following new turns, looking around unexpected corners.<br />
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Over a decade ago, I became a widower, in my 50s. Thereafter meeting people in ways not explored for decades. Shocked to find how many people, of all genders, were deliberately shutting down variables and pathways to the new as they got older. Perhaps in defence against the world. But it seems to me that openness to the new is a better way of enjoying the world and surviving, and more than surviving, in a difficult age.Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-22669593730374494942014-08-16T08:54:00.000+09:002014-08-16T13:35:19.445+09:00how we see thingsI was delighted today to find this comment on one of my blog entries:<br />
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<cite class="user" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://michaelalvis.com/Home.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #a054c0; text-decoration: none;">Michael Alvis</a></cite><span class="icon user" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span class="datetime secondary-text" style="margin-left: 6px;"><a href="http://brieflyinjapan.blogspot.com/2014/04/day-9-bags-at-keisei-ueno-station.html?showComment=1408119663539#c4430564116065015354" rel="nofollow" style="color: #a054c0; text-decoration: none;">16 August 2014 01:21</a></span></blockquote>
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Thank you for sharing your wonderful travel blog about your visit to Japan. I lived in Saitama for 6 years (1988-1993, 1995-1996) and was back for 5 short weeks in 2009. After reading your blog, I feel the need to start planning another trip to Japan.</blockquote>
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I'm pleased to find that copying and pasting that comment. the link to Michael's own books is preserved. Where you may find some common ground, do go and look at some of his Blurb books. I had not seen his photos of people on trains when i began taking mine. Here is something from one of his books, I acknowledge his humorous human perspective came first!<br />
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Here is a <a href="http://www.blurb.com/books/1894433-japan-basho" target="_blank">breathtakingly beautiful book on Japan</a>, one of a number he has produced, such inspiring hard work as well as vision.</div>
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Perhaps this photo, from Michael's Tennessee, sums up something important. Or some things. Maybe the text describes the brains of some of us photographers. But also the humour in it arises from the way we see. Or what I think Michael and I, hugely separated on the planet, have learned through photography, or applied in photography, the inability to walk past things that for the most part people may not see, the wonders of incongruity and the delight in ordinary human foible.</div>
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I bow (and grin) before this <a href="http://www.blurb.com/books/1610436-oligomania" target="_blank">wondrous book, Oligomania</a><br />
<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-23204805915627391042014-06-03T17:07:00.001+09:002014-08-12T16:28:19.046+09:00making the Blurb photobookI have just published a book through Blurb to cover our travels.<br />
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This is a very different thing from the blog.<br />
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It was somewhat tormenting to try and change the brain space from blogging to booking.<br />
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The result becomes something more than a photo album with some thoughts, but in the end mainly visual images.<br />
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The book of course lacks the movies accessible through this blog.<br />
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You can see some pages of the book in preview here.<br />
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I will write again*** when I see the quality of the book. <a href="http://au.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=Dennis+Argall&filter=all&commit=Search" target="_blank">This is not my first Blurb book as you will see at here.</a></div>
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As with many creative productions, somehow <a href="http://au.blurb.com/b/1340628-un-mese-in-italia-febbraio-marzo-2010" target="_blank">my first Blurb book remains my favourit</a><u>e</u> It's hard for me to judge why I think that, perhaps it simply is the best, perhaps it represents first spark or greater inspiration at the time. The hardest thing to judge is how the images will appear on paper. There is a tendency for print to paper to be darker than as seen on a monitor. I do my best to counter that, lightening images or dodging parts of images in Photoshop. But then again you don't want it to look like it's been out on the washing line all summer either... <a href="http://spyder.datacolor.com/display-calibration/" target="_blank">These products have been recommended to me</a> but life is too short.</div>
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Last week, to get past the block in trying to produce this book, <a href="http://au.blurb.com/b/5338073-life-in-colour" target="_blank">I whipped up this in a day</a>, getting up on Sunday morning, capturing the colour of my domestic environment (using the iPad, I'm still waiting for camera repair!) and assembling a little book before the evening, uploading to Blurb Sunday night and having it delivered (from a rural printery in Australia, in Glen Innes) the following Friday, five days). I printed that short book soft cover with image wrap. For this bigger enterprise and to have something solid to remember our wonderful trip, I chose hard back with dust cover and best paper. Anyway, I'll tell you what it looks like when it arrives!</div>
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-62600897029892308302014-04-30T16:26:00.003+09:002014-05-05T15:56:20.180+09:00Day 9: bags at the Keisei Ueno Station, the pleasure of a break in the Museum of Western ArtWe were down to last bits of money in wallets, last bits of brain to squander, last shreds of feet to wander... packed and taxied to the station (the entrance convenient to the taxi coming from our direction is the one with nothing but steps to drag our baggage down), tickets bought and seats booked on the Skyliner for later in the afternoon, bags consigned to lockers.<br />
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We had time to visit something among galleries in Ueno Park, some were changing exhibitions, we elected to go to the National Museum of Western Art.<br />
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Multiple railway stations, multiple museums in a large park. <a href="http://brieflyinjapan.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/dsy-1-part-3-hanami-ueno-park.html" target="_blank">The park where we had started</a>.<br />
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My companion looked refined.<br />
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I had the view of Japan outside, she had the view of Japanese style inside.<br />
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That ad (at time of writing this blog entry) says: </div>
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The evidence is before your eyes. I saw no prospect of getting a turn on this one.</div>
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This a disabled/family toilet on the ground floor, I confess to declaring myself unable to get down the stairs to the regular toilets at this end of the day, which was certainly much the case, but it was an exhibit needing to be inspected.</div>
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Even some ordinary railway toilets boast the clever seat to hold the infant. </div>
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I was initially alarmed by the location of ... was it a urinal?? ... on the left wall, in an impossible position. It was a handwashing basin accessible from wheelchair. No taps of course, no touching anything. Similarly, pass your hand in front of the flush non-button, and it flushes. </div>
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* I note that in contrast to experience of queues in other international airports, as we approached the check-in area of Japan Airlines at Narita 2, as unentitled cheapest Economy Class passengers, we were met by a polite young person who directed us to an empty counter, went behind the counter and proceeded to do everything instantly and brightly.<br />
And then off to Sydney for cheerless soulless cold dealings by Border Protection staff at the airport there, mean manners imitative of a <a href="http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/33923/" target="_blank">Morrison</a>. Hard landing home...Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-24529512776586077992014-04-30T10:41:00.000+09:002015-11-05T08:13:46.995+09:00Day 9: bags packed, walk Asakusa, Sensoji, finally through the tourist magnet in our front yard...We were packed early, checkout midday, a couple of hours to spare.<br />
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We have had fair weather since we arrived... and rain is forecast for tomorrow, after we have gone.</div>
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-20223778837133700622014-04-29T18:56:00.001+09:002014-04-30T20:27:55.914+09:00Day 6: Tokyo, Monday, regrouping, counting cash, making movies, going across town for another massageWe had arrived on Tuesday night, been busy every day, now Monday, time to do some planning for days before departure Thursday evening... also catch breath and ride the subway back to Koenji to get another shiatsu massage. Also a quick trip to Kappabashidori for some minor purchases.<br />
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Also needing calculate money needs. Japan is not a place where a credit card can be used everywhere. Foreign cards cannot be used to draw money from ATMs other than at post offices and Seven-11 stores.<br />
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We had brought with us ¥150,000, at that time about $US1,500. <a href="http://auspost.com.au/travel-id/foreign-cash.html" target="_blank">Cash obtained from Australia Post, ordered online</a> ten days before departure, available to collect at local post office several days later.<br />
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We calculated on Monday that we would make it to Thursday night. We did, leaving the country with ¥138 ($1.50) and two Suica cards drained to not much, which we passed on to Emi and David back in Australia. We are known for our generosity.. ;-)<br />
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In terms of total holiday cost, add the approx $AU1300 for the apartment, $1070 each for Japan Air return tickets booked earlier when on sale, $300x2 for the seven day Japan Rail Pass, $220 for a room in a hotel in Kyoto for a night, about $200 on a card in Kappabashidori and $50 for our ride to the airport, to a total cost from Australia of a bit more than $5000.<br />
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<li>The beautiful lady with the beautiful koala-adorned clothes-and-more shop in Koenji</li>
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This is a panoramic view (the road is straight, the camera moves) from our veranda, at night, to the east.<br />
The first, small building, on the left, is the elevator entrance to the Asakusa (Tsukuba) subway station.<br />
The laneway straight ahead leads to nightlife Asakusa, relatively genteel.<br />
The figure silhouetted against bright entrance of ROX department store<br />
(tell a taxi driver "LOOKS" not "ROX") mostly likely at this hour coming from the 24 hour supermarket.<br />
The first street to right of ROX leads straight to the Asakusa Tubo Station, 600 metres or so.<br />
Second side street after ROX leads to the closest <a href="http://www.onsenjapan.net/onsenbasics.php" target="_blank">onsen</a>, we never got to use it,<br />
too much amenity including big bath at home,<br />
but we found it early one morning when closed. Head down that lane and MacDonalds is on the left...<br />
slip into the first tiny lane on the right and there you have the onsen looking a<a href="http://www.onsenjapan.net/onsenreview.php?onsen=JAKOTSUYU" target="_blank">s shown at link</a>.<br />
Down the main road 300m on the right is the Tawaramachi Station of the Ginza subway line, for Ueno and the world.<br />
To the west (behind the camera) nice quiet streets to Kappabashidori, then much longer walk to Ueno Station.<br />
Taxi to Ueno Keisei station ¥1050 from down below our veranda.<br />
There is railing along each side of the street below.<br />
Taxis wait at the end of railing sections, by the pedestrian crossings.<br />
<a href="http://www.taxiautofare.com/jp/taxi-fare-card/Tokyo-Taxi-fare" target="_blank">Minimum taxi fare first two km ¥710</a>. Generally speaking train is faster and easier than taxi.<br />
Take a taxi with baggage.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-80290265510016450742014-04-29T17:41:00.000+09:002016-09-20T07:16:03.808+09:00Day 8, Tokyo: Hammamatsucho's Hama-Rikyu Garden, Korean lunch, HarajukuHere's a map:<br />
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H top right = home. South to a beautiful park in Hammamatsucho, on further clockwise on the Yamanote Line to Shinokubo for a Korean lunch, three stops back for a brief stop in Harajuku, then run away quickly home.<br />
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In the middle of Tokyo business, this beautiful garden dates from the 1650s when it was initially a seaside duck hunting preserve for the Shogun's family, later a palace built there.<br />
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The imperial family gave the garden with most of its palace and other buildings destroyed, to the city of Tokyo in late 1945. More information <a href="http://teien.tokyo-park.or.jp/en/hama-rikyu/outline.html" target="_blank">here</a>. More lively account <a href="http://blog.japantwo.com/2011/08/22/3962" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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And my movie here<br />
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We went on to lunch in Shinokubo, known as Korea Town. Well worthwhile. </div>
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In a street parallel to the Yamanote Line, we found a musical focus...</div>
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-27290434358360083682014-04-24T09:58:00.000+09:002016-09-20T09:25:14.934+09:00Day 5, Tokyo Sunday, part 2: subway, Sendagi, YanakaAfter the wild and crowded life thrust upon us <a href="http://brieflyinjapan.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/dsy-5-tokyo-sunday-part-1.html" target="_blank">exiting Harajuku Station and around Yoyogi Park</a>, during which my Fuji XF-1 camera decided to lose control of exposure (hereinafter photos mainly from iPad mini, fortunately on hand), we set off down <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omotesand%C5%8D,_Tokyo" target="_blank">Omotesando</a>, imagining it to have the serenity and charm it had when I walked there in 1980. It doesn't.<br />
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We slipped into the first subway entrance, Meiji-Jingumae, of the Chiyoda Line.<br />
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Helen caught this stunning image of modern Japan going out or going home...<br />
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I could see from the subway map (it really does help to try to understand it in advance) that we could take this chanced-upon Chiyoda Line to a station near Nippori, from where swiftly on the Yamanote Line to Ueno, then the Ginza Line to Tawaramachi, then 300 metres walk home past our preferred sushi shop. This screenshot below is the middle bit of a standard map. To orient yourself, remember that the Yamanote Line of Japan Rail (<a href="http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/yamanote-line-in-tokyo" target="_blank">this is a fantastic introduction to the villages/cities of the Yamanote Line</a>) runs around the centre of the city, and while the carriages are pleasantly light green on the outside and lightv green in railway station signs, on the map it's the grey and white dotted line. So... in the moment I discover we are at the ticket gate of the Chiyoda Line at C03, Meiji-jingumae, south from Shinkuku, the world's biggest train station, we are down in the lower left of the map. Follow the green line with the C numbers and you are following the Chiyoda Line. I decided we should walk to Nippori JR station from Sendagi because that seemed likely to lead through Yanaka, an area with a 'traditional' shopping street of which I had read. Sendagi is C15. See Nippori north east from it, Ueno two stops away on the Yamanote, Tawaramachi G18 on the Ginza Line from Ueno, orange line. Top right. It was nice taking this ride on Sunday afternoon, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metro_Chiyoda_Line" target="_blank">Wikipedia reports</a> that on the north side of Nishi-Nippori at peak hours passengers may be at 180% of capacity.<br />
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Helen woke me just before we arrived at Sendagi!<br />
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Arriving at the surface from a subway station on an overcast day can be tricky in any city, you take multiple flights of stairs or escalators, turning a number of times, you hit the street, blindfold comes off so to speak and where's north you say to yourself. It was where I thought. We were in a very suburban, residential environment. I confirmed from a passing cyclist that from the gate we should go left then right for Nippori.<br />
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As seen from Google Earth, Sendagi Station lower left, Nippori Station top right.<br />
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Proceeding left, we looked up a lane in the wrong direction and had to go there. This was a perfect quiet counter to the crowded parks and streets at better known destinations. Sudo Park, green spot left side of map above, bliss for young person with mother and soft serve below.<br />
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This photo also makes the point that after cherry blossoms come azaleas, after azaleas wisteria.<br />
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We proceeded through minor streets for what I understood to be Yanaka, a traditional merchant street leading to Ueno.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">looking back where we have just come from: <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/11/23/travel/seasons-greetings-garnered-in-tokyos-yanaka-ginza/#.VA6fIWSSz5U" target="_blank">the Yanaka ginza</a></td></tr>
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... and don't use your phone near such people.<br />
The frequent supporting public address announcements say please too. :-)<br />
But the train was not full and on most rides many people<br />
would leap to their feet anywhere in the carriage for those needing a seat.<br />
Women with babies refused to take my seat, insisted I take theirs. I must look decrepit!<br />
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Footpaths and stations have lots of yellow pimpled pavers, much support for vision impaired.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-83182702389710047352014-04-23T17:11:00.000+09:002014-10-01T20:37:58.465+09:00Day 4, part 5, Kyoto Station<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #783f04;">We never imagined it would be so extraordinary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">Kyoto Station, opened in 1997, was built to celebrate the 1200th anniversary of the founding of the city. <a href="http://japan-guide.com/e/e3922.html">I learned that in this guide </a>after leaving Kyoto. That guide rightly observes that it is a "perfect contrast to many foreign tourist's image of Kyoto." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">We had, on arrival in Kyoto from Tokyo, scurried underground to catch a subway train and indeed when leaving Kyoto, we arrived at the Kyoto Station the same way. But we were early at departure, early for our Tokyo train and decided to have a look outside. We had some difficulty initially discovering the outside. Helen summed up the situation, as we passed from one major shopping corridor to the next, full of gloss and beautiful refined people: "Perhaps there is no outside, there seems no need."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">But we did get out and again it was Helen, seeing an escalator of extreme size through a glass wall, who said: "We have to go on that!" She also noted on the building diagram outside that there was a museum on the eighth or ninth floor. I noted as we moved to enter that there was another escalator. No, mine if bigger, she said. Indeed, from the bottom, when we stood there, her escalator was bigger. Moreover, there was a cunning visual trick. From the bottom one could not see that there was another escalator after the first escalator. And ditto. Perhaps Everest is like that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">The escalators go almost to the top. Stairs necessary to finish the trek. Not too many. A few courageous or foolish appear in my escalator-shot movie to be running up the stairs all the way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">At the top, there is a small sign, the name of the place. You will at least have to ride my movie to know it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">Helen having whipped me up the hill, so to speak, at the top said: "I wonder if I can get down, my vertigo will probably cut in." I pointed out that while no elevator, there seemed a large crane higher to one side and a heliport. In fact, I think the journey up and down cured her vertigo. But we were pleased to have more time as we took another quarter hour at the bottom to find the Shinkansen. The word bottom was relevant. We had gone down too far, we needed to ride up escalators again to find the Shinkansen station. Not as many escalators as we tried, we had to ride one down a floor when we overshot going back up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">These observations:<br />1: do get to the station early in Kyoto to ride to the top on escalators. But there seems no alternative to steps at the top, and without taking those steps, you miss out.<br />2: this is good stuff when you are planning to sit on the train for two or three hours.<br />3: whether this will cure you as it apparently cured me of the desire constantly to feel semi-undressed and grasping for my seat belt as I did on coming to Kyoto on the Shinkansen Kyoto at 200km an hour, passing other trains at combined 400+km/hour I don't know. The evidence is that sitting in my aircraft type seat on the train back to Tokyo I did not miss my seat belt. Perhaps just tired.<br />4: whether you will be cured of vertigo we cannot say. Whether you will develop vertigo we can't promise.<br />5: leave time to find the train when you come back down. It's a big station with many distractions.<br />6: We found some excellent crusty bread in the station such as we haven't found in Tokyo, but we honestly can't tell you where we found it. It had a French name, of course. And the transaction required all our resources of polite terms of trade, the <i>sumimasen</i>, the <i>arigato</i>, the <i>domo arigato goziemasu</i>. But no matter how strenuous our efforts to be polite, the lady beind the counter stood by the tradition evident everywhere in Japan that not only is the customer always right but the salesperson must always be able to respond to any statement of appreciation, any minor or greater bow, with more profound appreciation. It was not a <a href="http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/how-7-eleven-redefined-the-japanese-language">7-Eleven shop, where the language matter has been advanced to a further level.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">This adventure into modern architectural genius and mind altering cheekiness was a wonderful end to our visit to Kyoto, I recommend it, from the above it seems to have given my brain a flip. This building offers the same kind of frisson as the beautiful modern house lurking among cherry and other trees in the middle of the Philosopher's Walk, hint hint, see my video of that. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">We did not go to the museum...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04;">But on the way to the station we had passed these steps. </span><br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-72648293240096648692014-04-23T17:02:00.001+09:002015-08-24T11:00:30.750+09:00Day 4, part 4: Kyoto, Kawabata Dori and Sanjo DoriKawabata Dori (Kawabata Street) runs alongside the east bank of the Kamo River. Here we walk from Shirakawa-Minami Dori north to and across the Sanjo Bridge. The street is named for the Nobel Prize winning novelist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabata">Yasunari Kawabata</a>.<br />
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These rocks are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorishiro">iwasaka</a></div>
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Now walking from the corner of Shinbashi Dori, down Shirakawa-minami Dori </div>
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In part 1 of Day 4 we had walked from hotel south via Pontocho to Gion Dori and then east to Yasaka Shrine. Returning to our hotel near the Sanjo Bridge, beginning in this second part, we went north west through tiny streets of Gion, red light district at night, some astonishing design visible during the day, to emerge from Shinbashi Dori and walk beside the canal on Shirakawa-Minami Dori, down to the river then north on the east bank of the Kamo River.... the area just over the river in Hiroshige's painting from the 1830s, copied here from <u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanj%C5%8D_%C5%8Chashi">wikipedia</a></u><br />
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Then we walked northwest through narrow streets of Gion, a redlight district when the sun is not shining. Many people would only see this at night. Daytime reveals astonishing combinations of traditional and modern building.</div>
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-26915249209082104622014-04-20T05:44:00.000+09:002014-04-28T09:49:38.813+09:00return home to find poodle has also been bloggingI still have stories to tell from Japan (I've never really understood how busy people can maintain memoirs daily, there isn't time) but must break off to tell of our homecoming.<br />
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Helen's garden and my garden looking splendid, we have had David from France and Emiko from Japan, <a href="http://wwoof.com.au/" target="_blank">WWOOFers</a> who have been with us for some weeks looking after our houses and Ralph Poodle Black in our absence.<br />
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We returned to this entrance hallway, saying <i>Welcome Back</i> in Japanese.<br />
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discovering that, in our absence and with some very special assistance from Emi, Ralph has become a blogger too, in a very refined way, on paper.<br />
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Here then is Ralph's amazing story as presented to us yesterday, complete with Japanese paper art.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-31420875423629493802014-04-15T06:00:00.001+09:002014-04-15T06:00:55.609+09:00art in passingEscalator poster art going down to our Asakusa (Tsukuba) station, quick shots in the dark...<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKk43POOf_59jX8ql9xAlIIC4-pQsG5Zx9y4idZ0V2LPouQpLQLXZ2u08wYMrqbKjFXtYMP_MQ0XVdMca3Vio8AQWP86Q6NaxktgmesQVjuf1eM7s54crIa9lx_mAdWRjKw3n_tHYQQqk/s640/blogger-image-863749352.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKk43POOf_59jX8ql9xAlIIC4-pQsG5Zx9y4idZ0V2LPouQpLQLXZ2u08wYMrqbKjFXtYMP_MQ0XVdMca3Vio8AQWP86Q6NaxktgmesQVjuf1eM7s54crIa9lx_mAdWRjKw3n_tHYQQqk/s640/blogger-image-863749352.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCMOeGFT6Ksj9FhOWGiKE_GiE6HZymXUhMljo6nZNhsWGd2q5_X5lotTKMAikL3OW1or8ydVO9HrWVoW9oD_nSaHUeg87mm-sy3rnb4cY0UZAHhLwcg47G3zfDcYRQRxSfqWtc-4bREfg/s640/blogger-image-1169347618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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There are so many elements to Kyoto. The elegance of the people, different from Tokyo, though we confess we have not shopped Ginza. The way every corner reveals something different.<br />
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The layout of the city is a puzzle on the map at first look when far away. But find the station and downtown becomes easy to follow, a very square pattern, east-west north-south, north of Kyoto station, so if you can keep track of corners turned you know where you are easily enough. If uoiu've done research in advance. That's the point: research hard in advance, plan as little as possible.... or just put yourself in the nads of a guide and skip the interesting bits between the crowded tourist top points.<br />
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The walk covered in this blog entry proceeded from near Sanjo Dori, top left, down the narrow lane of traditional buildings mainly restaurants, running on the west side of the Kamo River to the Gion Bridge; between the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanj%C5%8D_%C5%8Chashi">Sanjo Bridge</a> and the Gion Bridge, then west along Gion dori to the Yasaka Shrine; from there in the next blog entry, by another wending way back to our hotel near Sanjo Dori on Kawaramachi Dori.<br />
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Of course you could plan a little better than I, presenting nicely printed reservation information page from booking.com, in Japanese, to hotel receptionist, who ducked away for a moment to see the boss and returned to point with standard but wonderful Japanese smiling and voice, to the plain-as-day dates for me to read and agree that yes, they were expecting us last night. But no problem, was the gracious advice, you can stay tonight, no fee for last night. Great relief that they were not booked out!</div>
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At 8 the only thing open was Stealbucks, where we had bland coffee and soggy wrap. Moving on to seek better fare, we came upon this temple and cemetery. Rather fun to see the opportunity to stick your head in a hole and have a silly picture at the door to such places!</div>
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There is a trick to the Chuo Line, the important line that runs east west across the city, the 'omega' slash of the O of the Yamanote Line, like this Swedish looking ø my keyboard easily produces, but east west. There's the Chuo Line Local and the Chuo Line Rapid. The Rapid begins at Tokyo Station comes north one stop alongside the Yamanote to Kanda, then heads west for Shinjuku and beyond, going fast. Our quick ride to Koenji as you will know from earlier entries. The Chuo Line Local comes from the next prefecture to the east, Chiba, and arrives goes through Akihabara... where it is still known and signposted as the Sobu Line. I hope you're reading this with the map handy, but I hope you notice on the downloaded maps that they all have little discrepancies. It can be as interesting as the Falklands War may have been if it weren't so horrid, fought on the boundary of four naval charts, as I understand. But that's away from the point, sorry... Anyway, there's this lovely station Ochanomizu, one stop from Akihabara for the Chuo Local and one stop from Kanda for the Chuo Rapid. They've organised the tracks so that the Local and the Rapid going in the same direction pull into the one platform <i>at the same time of course!</i> This can be disconcerting at first experience, you think that the carriage might be on fire as so many people rush out the door and then you realise that there's a matching crowd now scurrying across the platform for your train. We did in fact make some mistakes getting to Yoyogi Park, including getting off at the lovely quiet Yoyogi Station. Where we should have gone another stop to the mad rush of Harajuku Station. But had time to take a photo of this lovely advice to schoolgirls as to what to do if hat comes off and blows onto the track.</div>
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Lots of information on the web about the Philosopher's Walk.<br />
This map shows several bus/train routes from Kyoto Station to the northern end of the Philosopher's Walk, distance about 8km (5 miles).<br />
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From Kyoto Station we had to find our hotel which was small (30 rooms) and very new, not visible on street view google, or not to us. Just south of Sanjodori [Sanjo Street] on Kawaramachidori. Great location. We took a local subway trip, two stops to Shinjo and walked a kilometre and a half.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422553806767394744.post-31477004361255943352014-04-12T21:55:00.001+09:002015-11-04T04:27:51.051+09:00Day 3, part 1: Shinkansen to and from Kyoto, views of FujisanOur <a href="http://english.jr-central.co.jp/about/outline.html"> Shinkansen (bullet train)</a> took 164 minutes to cover the 500+km from Tokyo to Kyoto as part of a longer run to Osaka and points beyond. They leave every few minutes, they never leave late, they have had no accidents since they began running in 1962 (there was uproar in about 1970 when the Prime Minister delayed one by five minutes). Seating more comfortable, more leg room, than economy air travel, in the standard Shinkansen cars. I kept thinking I should put my seat belt on.<br />
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At the northern end of the circle of the Yamanote line the crowd thinned and I was able to stand at the glass wall of the driver's compartment to record this film. You will see how frequent the Yamanote service is from the green trains running the other way on the inside line. The driver has a cold, has a mask, like others above. If you get a cold, do be civilised and wear a mask, about $5 for a box of sixty masks at the supermarket, </div>
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Helen's Japanisation proceeds apace, this morning impelled by the effects of our washing machine which is also a dryer. It told us when turned on that it would be ready in ... somewhere beyond 6 hours. It finished somewhere in the night. By the time I opened the lid in the morning, not only were items dry but tangled wrinkled dry. Some time later I turned from writing yesterday's bloggery to see this unprecendented, amazing and charming sight of Helensan hard at work on a shirt of mine. </div>
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From our apartment doorstep it's go right into Asakusa (day 1), go left into Kappabashi Hondori leading to Kappabashidori, known as Kitchen Town, major source of supplies for restaurants and items of interest to tourists of all kinds, whether the novelty of plastic food plates as displayed in many Japanese eatery windows, the clatter of kitchen doovers to carry home for aunts, the classic white look as per Noritake 1965 or some stunning stoneware.<br />
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Along Asakusadori the answer to the question 'where does the old kitchen go?' ... with some fascinating items.</div>
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I am conscious seeing people around my age, mostly lean and getting about if not always vibrantly fit, how different our lives have been. Some are physically very small people indeed and I wonder about comparative nutrition during and after WWII. But then I note that they walk among giants of younger generation Japanese, each generation taller, some a little rounder. Here stands Marlboro Man waiting for the traffic lights to change! </div>
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Koenji we had learned was a place of character, retaining a sense of village, artistic, creative, musical.</div>
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And so it proved to be, but first we found a nice local diner where the little book of dietary limitations that Emikosan had produced (and that David so beautifully made into super-kawaii with coloured pencils) for Helen proved immediatlely valuable. </div>
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The food was excellent, the others coming into the place were locals. This 'setto' cost Y840 (about $A9), main dish fish, octopus, quails eggs, celeray and more, freshly cooked; the soup startlingly good. Salad and rice and nice almond dessert, which Helen passed to me, no one imagines that nut = oil. :-)</div>
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An ulterior motive for going to Koenji was the number of second hand shops, especially second hand clothes shops, visitation to such being a central purpose of a Helenic vacation.</div>
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The place had a cheerful and gentle feel to it, with some exceptional elegance in some shops. And lots of interesting people. There seems to be always here the option to just stop somewhere and photograph the passing parade, not least those on bikes. We had not imagined the bike so central to life here.</div>
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After a while you stop seeing the cables overhead, just as one seems no longer to see the progressive enthrottlement of our homes by cables, connections, chargers ...</div>
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