Kurashiki Bikanchiku

 Kurashiki Bikanchiku is a very famous street in okayama. It is famous for the beautiful white walls. these walls are called "namako kabe" which means sea cucumber walls. these beautiful buldings were built in the edo period.
The kanji for "bikanchiku"
translates to "to see a beatiful area" or "to look at a beautful area"

 Kurashiki Bikanchiku is truly a beautiful place to visit. not only are all the buildings white but also the scenery around is very pretty. Here is the stream that divides bikanjiku.

 Inside these buildings were un remodeled old houses. so people could see how they lived in the edo period. Inside the house is a tatami room for sleeping and guest and a tiny porch where they would sit during spirng.

 I also got to experience jinrikisha!
the kanjis translate in to "human powered wheels". This is what people used to get around a long time ago. It can only carry two people at a  time. The customer would sit in the back while the worker would hold the bars in the front and run to the destanation. Our guide was very nice. he explained a lot about the history of Bikanjiku. the history is very interesting.

On our trip in the jinrikisha we passed this. an old and famous bridge. on the side of it is written "hashi" bridge.
but it is different from the modern kanji. these days people can`t even read that kind of writing!



So in every way this was a very fun trip!

Bikanchiku is also a very romantic place to go. many couples go there on dates.  :)

Osaka

so we only passed through osaka. didn`t have time to see much. we did visit universal studios japan though! it was fun! there was this horror house that i went to and it was like no one under fifteen aloud in. every one else was screeaming and crying in fear, some how i feel very weird when i just smiled cause it was fun. not really that scarry. they had actors that would apear out of walls and chase you and bloody actors screaming and ohter stuff, it was actually kinda cool! we also wento jurrasic park, jaws, and many any others. all the rides had actors wich made everuthing more alive and fun. :) fun day. at the end of the night we saw the starlight parade. it was pretty.

 onigiri shop <3











and the cutest and smallest mcdonalds. no one would expect to see that! it only had 3 tables!

the starlight parade. not many picture are posted in to this post.!

this one is one of my favorites <3

its a camel!

 

                                                cinderella.
                                               

Hiroshima

Hiroshima was fun! first we went to peace memorial park and the peace monument. they were super pretty! after that we went to the war museum. half way through i started to understand why they didin`t bring the smallest child in. it was so horrible. at one point i just started feeling sick and there were many other people like that too. some even cried. it was really bad. whatthey teach you at school cant compare to what it was and still is. the affects of all of that still carries out to this day. :( it was very horrifying to walk through.

 genbaku dome

 peace monument. 

thousands of paper cranes sorrounding the peace mmonument

hiroshima castle

peace memorial park

hiroshima

hiroshima with genbaku dome 

 
 Hiroshima city is really pretty! its filled with many tall buldings and so many people. i even saw a maid there! she was super cute! in the center of hiroshima lays genbaku dome. it is the only old building left. the a-bomb exploded 6 ft above it. its not a pretty sight. but they decided to persirve it as a monument and reminder of the damage caused by the bombing. after all of that we went yet to another historical sight. the hiroshima castle. of course this on is a replica of the original for the original was destroyed long long ago. hirshima castle had a very unique defense mechanism. they had of course holes to shoot from but also holes on floors to drop rocks at enemies climbing the walls and also they would use the sorruondin water as a defense in a unique way. i can`t put in to words cause it was all shown in pictures and np pictures were allowed to be taken. in the hiroshima castle area also lays the remains of the original hiroshima castle, the remains on a military base destroyed in the war and a tree that didint turn to ashes during the bombing. grusome looking tree. its white and black.

Gaijin

I thought there would be more foregners though iknew there wernt many. but it seems i am the only one.. today i went to take a walk and walked to the nearby station. at tthe station a train was getting ready to leave and as the doors closed one guy inside looked over at me and said something. everyone in the train rushed over to the windows! i actually looked around to see what was going on.. they were looking at me. :) weird. but kind of nice being center attention!

100 yen shop and school!

as every one knows school will be starting soon. Today i went to buy all the things i needed for school and also visited a one coin shop! so cheap and filled with so much. you could literally spend all day there! I was thinking of joining the school cheerleading club? sounds fun!
pictures will be up asap.

In Japan!

SO japan is very beutiful!
the blog is in japanese so i dont know how to use it yet!
Sofar i have tried bunch of foods, used an old fashioned bathroom( scary and weird),
and i have been on a bullet train. and already strated school. so ive been very busy!
school is fun! its very big and the people are nice! we also experienced a taifun!
not to worry. it was very small in okayama. hottori (i think) had a tsunami warning but its not that close to me. ! :) tokyo ans osaka had it the worst!

So It Begins

So today starts my jorney to japan!

Wish me luck!

Tomorrow the journey begins...