#Okazaki canal

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Kyoto, Japan

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The beautiful sakura (Japanese cherry blossoms) have bloomed! There are viewing areas all over Japan every spring for this gorgeous occasion. Shops sell sakura-themed items ranging from food to clothes, and there are even boat tours you can take to view the trees. Kiku enjoys partaking in hanami "flower viewing" every year. This year, she managed to get a boat tour at Chidorigafuchi Moat, one of the most popular viewing spots. She's also enjoying walking along the Okazaki Canal and Philosopher's Path trails while savoring some sakura-flavored treats.

Taking a boat ride at Chidorigafuchi Moat:

Enjoying sakura-flavored dango while walking along the Okazaki Canal:

Enjoying a sakura-themed drink from Starbucks while walking along the Philosopher's Path - and meeting a friend!

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  I take thorough looks on japan.its beauty is unique,amazing.So i take time to post photos of japanese landscapes.They’re great,making me smile:) So i also give a good outline of what is what,where precisely is.

First image above:Is a photo in kyoto. A Nice way to enjoy cherry blossom season in Kyoto is to take a boat,ride down the Okazaki Canal by Heian Shrine. The traditional-style boats called jikkokubune depart from the Nanzenji Boat Pier for a 3km (25 minute) round-trip canal cruise that takes in the beautiful sakura.

Second is Sakura Blossom In Osaka Japan.

Third is Mt. Fuji with the Chureito Pagoda in Arakurayama Sengen Park.

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I take thorough looks on japan.its beauty is unique,amazing.So i take time to post photos of japanese landscapes.They’re great,making me smile:) So i also give a good outline of what is what,where precisely is.

First image above:Is a photo in kyoto. A Nice way to enjoy  cherry blossom season in Kyoto is to take a boat,ride down the Okazaki  Canal by Heian Shrine. The traditional-style boats called jikkokubune  depart from the Nanzenji Boat Pier for a 3km (25 minute) round-trip  canal cruise that takes in the beautiful sakura.

Second is  Sakura Blossom In Osaka Japan.

Third is  Mt. Fuji with the Chureito Pagoda in Arakurayama Sengen Park.  

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The most dangerous bridges in the world

The Most Dangerous Bridges in the World 2022

Bridges are superb structures built to link one point to a further. Often they hold above terrain designed to take us times to trek if not. Most of them are systematically engineered and require years of engineering, such as the glorious Silver Gate Bridge inside San Francisco or your majestic Tower Conduit in London.

The Most Dangerous Bridges in the World 2022

Relationship, some bridges ended up simply built to finish the same job without much considering at all. Here are five of the most dangerous links in the world. What makes quite possibly the most dangerous bridges?

Although the general physics associated with bridge-building has been in lifetime for thousands of many years, every bridge’s wellbeing depends on several factors-the geology of the spot, traffic volume, environment, and construction items.

Sometimes, it can be tricky to tell between hazardous bridges and trusted ones simply by examining them. There are also several bridges where in spite of their stability, I recently could not dare to line foot without being a jolt from adrenaline!

For all most people adrenaline junkies and additionally bridge enthusiasts, here's some of the list of the scariest bridges in the world!

Dangling on in Pakistan

Let us get the the majority of dangerous bridge globally out of the way first! In 2, 600 yards altitude, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge hangs above the Hunza River in the Gilgit-Baltistan region; it is not to your faint of center.

This flimsy suspension bridge was created by the villagers working with materials found in a vicinity. Improper elements, the passage of one's, and lack of protection mean missing boards will unnerve anyone as you walk that narrow path earlier the gushing canal.

Unforgiving heavy gusts of wind also tend to protein shake the bridge since you cross it. I've heart palpitations merely thinking about it!

Japan’s roader-coaster

The Eshima Ohashi Bridge in Okazaki, japan sits over Nakaumi lake. Constructed involving 1997 to 2004, it is the third-largest rigid-frame bridge in the world!

Apart from its impressive dimensions, images of the connection circulate the internet given it looks as vertical as a rollercoaster from your certain angle!

Gorge-ous but scary!

A Royal Gorge Connect sits 956 little feet above a hone valley with a approach running underneath. Engineering began in May of 1929 in addition to took less than key months to complete. To help you gauge just how upright this is, you can meet the entire Chrysler creating in the gorge, in support of its spire can rise above the link.

The unnerving top is what makes the application terrifying, as sliding off means some deep plunge that you're unlikely to get by.

Dicing with fatality

Also known as the “Bridge of Death” along with “Oh My Our god bridge”, the skinny Quepos Bridge produced between 1930 to be able to 1940 does not also look like it can maintain a bicycle, nonetheless, big trucks together with lorries drive because of it daily.

That wood-plank bridge is very much on the verge with collapsing, with unfastened slabs clanking noisally as the bridge sways beneath the weight involving vehicles passing with. Yikes!

A crazy bridge in China and taiwan

In the mountains, this Fairy Walking Connection offers stunning panorama and a bit of probability

At the height of just one, 320 meters previously mentioned sea level, your Fairy Walking Link joins two rugged outcroppings. Until 1987, locals crossed above this abyss coupled a decrepit dangling path, with a lot of falling to their demise earning it a nickname of the “bridge of immortals. ”

New construction causes it to become safe now, nonetheless location’s previous repute persists. Visitors typically get an eerie feeling while eating the stunning landscaping of the rock formations on the mountainside.

Monkeying around in Vietnam

There’s a lot of sure-footedness required to cross those traditional bridges

Goof Bridges are classic, handcrafted wood or even bamboo walkways usually made of just one part of bamboo or wooden log, some perhaps built without handrails. You can find them unfold across the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, occupying streams and hemp fields. They can as well be seen in north Vietnam, in resort regions of the Crimson River Delta.

To your locals who live life nearby, crossing such bridges is easy because they do it every day. Meant for unfamiliar visitors, it's really a difficult and damaging affair.

Is there perfect on the other side?

Every excursion is an experience with this bridge. Image due to Russia Trek.

This perilous Kuandinsky Conduit in Russia’s Trans-Baikal region is definitely all the way up there among that list of dangerous connections. It is hazardous considering in over 31 years, they even now have not completed this, yet, people navigate it daily.

From 570 meters lengthy, it ferries persons across the Vitim Waterway. Crossing the water is treacherous adequate during heavy excellent skiing conditions, but the trembling conduit adds to its danger.

Also, there is nothing to avoid you from falling into the freezing marine environments as it is only concerning two meters extensive with no railings or simply other safety guide lines!

A Key bridge with Florida

Seven Kilometer Bridge Florida Recommendations is an amazing look and one of the most perilous bridges in the world

In case you have Thalassophobia, you might not just want to set foot on this subject 10, 888-meter connect across the Atlantic Water, connecting the New york Keys.

You can sole see green-blue water and a display associated with herons and seagulls perched on top of that railings on either sides as you angry the bridge.

Your walk in the atmosphere

Though it is a visitor destination, it can be very scary to cross punch the bridge within Langkawi’s mountains

That 125-meter long shape is one of the world’s top curve suspension links, and its construction had been an arduous task. To be found high in the mountain range of Langkawi, this Sky Bridge may only be assembled by hoisting the whole structure and most its components on the top by helicopter!

It was worth it, even though, as the surrounding greenery will take your flow of air away while waiting among the canopy.

A good bridge too far?

Probably Asia’s longest connections is also one of the scariest bridges in the world to help cross. Source Wikipedia Commons

This suspension bridge, also known as your Long River Connect, is located near Baoshan, Yunnan, China. Ready to accept traffic on May possibly 1st, 2016, a bridge is 1, 196 meters extensive, making it one of Asia’s longest. It is also probably Asia’s highest, towering 280 meters higher than the river.

Most people cross bridges daily, traversing some of the most serious bridges in the world. Several are known for their gut-churning heights, questionable system, and steep fields that seem to ditch all the laws from physics.

Even if you are certainly not brave enough to help you cross some of the most hazardous bridges, visiting the first is always fun! I find myself small while glazing in awe with the might and magnificence of bridges although enjoying the cold breeze from getting up high and additionally taking in the magnificent scenery of our delightful world. Do you?

Welcome to The Major Explore channel The Most Dangerous Bridges in the World 2022 Bridges can be a majestic representation of human achievement and some of them are impressive to look at. But there are few that may even worry the most extreme adventurers. While these are remarkable landmarks, you may think twice before setting foot on them.

There are bridges built in some of the most unusual places, at unimaginable heights of well over a thousand feet and lengths of more than a hundred kilometers. These days, China is one of the world’s leading bridge-building nations and has bridges with jaw-dropping architectural features, as well as the long-span and highest bridges of any country.

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岡崎疏水　十石舟 🌸⛩🚤🌸

Okazaki jukkokubune 🌸🚤⛩🌸

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Today’s Okazaki # view from Kyoto Traveler’s Inn#kyototravel #kyototravelersinn #okazaki#kyoto#kyotostagram #sosui#canal#autumn2017 #ootorii#heianjingu #heianjingushrine (Heian Shrine)

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Okazaki Fountain, Kyoto

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Okazaki Canal - Kyoto, Japan

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Okazaki Canal - Kyoto, Japan

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Saikyo Onmyoji no Isekai Tenseiki: la light novel ispirerà un anime

Un potente onmyoji si reincarna in un altro mondo, dove la magia impallidisce in confronto alle sue arti. 

Kiichi Kosuzu, l’autore della fantasy novel “Saikyo Onmyoji no Isekai Tenseiki: Geboku no Yokai-domo ni Kurabete Monster ga Yowasugirunda ga”, ha condiviso su Twitter la notizia della produzione di un adattamento animato dell’opera.

L’annuncio è arrivato assieme all’uscita nei negozi giapponesi del 4° volumetto della versione manga, curata da Toshinori Okazaki (Dengeki Travellers). Maggiori dettagli riguardo al progetto arriveranno prossimamente.

Dopo essere stato tradito dai propri compagni, Haruyoshi, il più forte onmyoji sulla piazza, si ritrova ad un passo dalla morte. Sperando di trovare la felicità nella sua prossima vita, prima che le forze lo abbandonino, usa la tecnica segreta della reincarnazione. 

L’incantesimo funziona e Haruyoshi rinasce in un altro mondo. Ora è il figlio di una rispettabile famiglia di maghi, ma a quanto pare lui non possiede delle capacità magiche. Ben presto, però, si rende conto che la magia di questo mondo non è nulla in confronto alle sue vecchie arti onmyo! 

La serie di light novel è stata lanciata nel 2018 sul sito Shosetsuka ni Naro e dall’anno seguente viene pubblicata da Futabasha, anche in formato cartaceo, corredata delle illustrazioni realizzata da Shiso (Jimi na Kensei wa Soredemo Saikyou desu, CUE!). Al momento, l’opera conta cinque volumi.

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Uchouten Kazoku 2, chapter 2 (part 3 out of 4)

I think the anime skipped this part in its entirety because it’s not plot-important (but still provides some character insight that will be helpful later on, particularly to better understand the exchange between Yasaburou and the Nidaime at the end of the novel that didn’t make it into the anime)

The Eccentric Family: The Nidaime’s Homecoming (Uchouten Kazoku: Nidaime no Kichou) by Morimi Tomihiko

Chapter 2 (part 3/4, pages 99-111)

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Late at night, with nothing better to do, I explored the tree I was in and found a big cavity in it. A look inside revealed that it was surprisingly clean and filled with small accessory cases and stuff. All pointed to it being my eldest brother's secret closet.

"Let's see if he has anything interesting in there." Putting a hand inside, I rummaged through stuff stored there.

This being my straight-laced brother's hiding spot, it contained not a single interesting thing, much to my disappointment. All it had were items desperately lacking any appeal, like a book in traditional Japanese biding titled 'Furry child' that preached tanuki's history and guidelines, persimmons dried up to hardness he'd apparently forgotten to eat in time and spare parts for the automated rickshaw. "How boring," I muttered, going through them and eventually finding a big box made of empress tree and wrapped in some high quality wrapping cloth.

It was our father's favorite shogi board. A fine bulky board with 4 legs, one on each corner, exuding an air of grandeur that had you almost convinced that you could become good at shogi just by sitting in seiza in front of it. What ruined its splendor was the teeth marks on its surface, left there by my eldest brother.

'How terrible. Aniki sure did such an immature thing,' I thought to myself. 'But then again, back at the time he was still only a kid.'

I, too, had some memories of my own about the day when my brother ruined this shogi board.

On that day, our father, usually very busy, was relaxing in the Tadasu forest, and about the time evening fell, Nanzenji Gyokuran came to visit. Those days, she would drop by every so often, coming all the way to the Tadasu forest specifically to play shogi with my father and brother. She would go as far as shapeshifting into a human and turning up at various shogi associations, freely wandering from one place where she could find a willing partner to play shogi with to another.

Our father took out his favorite shogi board, and my brother and Gyokuran sat down to play.

With our father watching, my brother was fired up more than ever. Trying to bite more than you could chew would never go as planned, and while my brother was focused on advancing his pawn, his overall situation turned clearly unfavorable. However, in the final stage, Gyokuran made a few surprisingly bad moves in succession, and the game was overturned, with my brother gaining a miraculous victory. Only, he wasn't pleased with it. With the game over, the moment he raised his gaze from the board, he ended up shapeshifting into a tiger in a fit of anger and sinking his teeth into the board after losing himself to his fury.

My brother simply couldn't tolerate the fact that he had been shown mercy by Gyokuran in the presence of our father. He was always prideful, and from where he stood, a crushing defeat would have been easier to accept than that, no doubt.

Since that incident, my brother banned himself from ever touching shogi.

No matter how our father encouraged him later on, he never played another game ever again.

〇

On the third day of my life in the tree in protest against my eldest brother's inconsiderate statements, my mother nimbly climbed the tree with an intention to persuade me.

"We got this delicious youkan dessert [*1], so I brought some for you."

Arranging the youkan on a tree brunch, she poured some green tea from a thermos flask around her neck. Then I and my mother sat down on the branch and got to eating the jet black youkan.

The incessant rain played the forest like a musical instrument.

Before long, mother abruptly declared, "I like Gyokuran quite a bit, you know." "Well, Gyokuran-sensei is one good tanuki, yes," I nodded. "Let's have her as Yaichirou's wife. Yes, that's it, I've decided." "...That was so out of left field, mother." "What do you think of this?" mother whispered. "I personally think I'm onto something." "The red fur of fate, eh?" "But bringing them together is going to be tough. Yaichirou is not the type to be any good at romantic strategizing, and Gyokuran seems like a shy maiden..." My mother savored a sip of her tea, then spoke up again as if talking to herself. "Then again, luckily, Yaichirou has a kind little brother who would figure something out to make that happen, I'm sure. No matter what people say, he is a very kind boy, and he regrets causing trouble at the Tanuki Shogi tournament. I have no doubt he's ready to do what it takes to make up for it. Yes, I have no doubt. Of course. A mother always knows these things."

Coming to an agreement with herself, and herself only, mother started stuffing her cheeks with the youkan again, grinning.

"Such delicious youkan. This youkan is high-end indeed."

〇

Now that I had unwittingly partaken of the high-end youkan that mother had brought I couldn't continue pretending to be a furry tengu anymore, so in the afternoon of the same day I said goodbye to my life in the tree and went to Nanzenji temple.

As I walked along the Biwako Canal, heading from Okazaki towards the higher area, I saw the rain-soaked Ferris wheel of Kyoto zoo on the opposite shore and heard the lonely chirping of foreign birds in the distance. The Nanzenji forest, sprawling opposite of the Biwako Canal Memorial Hall, being beaten by drizzle, looked swollen after soaking up so much rain water. Passing by a pretentious traditional Japanese restaurant, I entered the Nanzenji temple grounds.

Upon leaving wet red pines behind, the towering Nanzenji temple triple gate [*2], with its top hazy with the rain, came into view.

Taking cover from the splashes of the incessantly falling rain behind the old black pillars, Nanzenji Shoujirou, dressed in traditional Japanese clothes, was facing a shogi board in solitude. When he saw me, he smiled in delight.

I sat down in front of Shoujirou and crossed my legs. My butt immediately felt chilly.

"How is Gyokuran-sensei doing?" "Still sitting in her Ama-no-Iwato cave [*3]. Once she's decided to hole up, she won't listen to anything her brother has to say,p at all. I don't know if it'll take a fool's dance or what for her to come down." "I apologize for all the trouble I've caused." "Don't worry about it. After a storm comes a calm, they say."

The falling rain rustled against the roof of the gate.

"Sheesh, my big brother is so clumsy and dumb about certain things." "...But well, we are only tanuki." Shoujirou chuckled and span the shogi board. "I understand Yaichirou's situation rather well; if my father were a tanuki as renown as yours and his, I would feel like I was being under his watch every second of my life, and that would cause me to make mishaps even where normally I wouldn't. If you just kick back and let the flow stir you, you won't make big blunders, but the moment tanuki like us try to put up a front and do something, we only end up complicating things. That's just the nature of creatures known as tanuki." "You may be right. Being soft and pliant is tanuki's saving grace, after all." "That said, I still like Yaichirou."

Nanzenji Shoujirou was always nice to the Shimogamo family. Unlike my eldest brother who, despite being so straight-laced, could easily transform into a tiger and go on a rampage, Shoujirou remained a decorous and mild-mannered tanuki under any circumstances. Among the numerous tanuki who only decided in what way they should shake their butts after seeing the way other tanuki shook theirs, Shoujirou always allied himself with my brother. My brother trusted him, and Shoujirou placed faith in our eldest in turn.

Staring at the shogi board, Shoujirou muttered, "When my sister secludes herself like now, I can't help thinking about the God of shogi." "The God of shogi?" "You see, Gyokuran used to coop up on the second story of the gate quite often in the past, saying she was doing intensive shogi training. And at those times, she apparently saw the God of shogi."

According to what Gyokuran revealed to Shoujirou, as she sat in front of the shogi board day after day, devoting all of her body and soul to the game and thinking so hard she even stopped breathing, one day, she felt like the 81-squares of the shogi board suddenly stretched out into infinity. The pieces lined up there, as well as all of their moves, linked themselves directly with her mind, and she understood with vivid clarity that the small shogi board was much bigger that she'd ever thought, not just bigger than Kyoto where she lived, but even bigger than Japan and even the whole of the world, and for a moment she felt like she was about to faint from the sheer delight and equal fright, sending chills down her spine, that the realization had brought.

She could swear she saw the furry God of shogi cross the board in that instance.

When he heard her talking about that experience, Shoujirou had a bad feeling about it.

Since having been awakened to shogi by Sakata Sankichi's Nanzenji Showdown, the Nanzanji family had seen several of its members among those who were overly fanatical about shogi end badly. Too engrossed in thinking about shogi all the time, some fell into tanuki hot pot, others were hit by a car, still others left on a shogi pilgrimage and never came back. In the Nanzanji family, it was customarily said about those possessed by shogi who had disappeared from this world that they had been 'taken by the God of shogi'.

"So I started feeling uneasy, worrying that Gyokuran would be taken, too," said Nanzenji Shoujirou to me, his gaze never leaving the shogi board. "And I always wished for someone to prevent it somehow. So you know, Yasaburou-kun, I can't help thinking how great it would be if Yaichirou became that person." "Are you sure you're okay with someone like him?" "...It doesn't matter if I'm okay with him or not. He's the one my sister chose."

I bowed to Shoujirou and started climbing the steep stairway illuminated by the murky light of the lamps.

The second story of the triple gate was a spacious chamber with wooden flooring for enshrining a Buddha and it was encircled by a balcony with a balustrade. Said balustrade was completely wet.

From there, you could have an extensive view of the Kyoto cityscape lying beyond the temple grounds, hazy with the rain. On the left, there towered Hotel Miyako on a hill of lush green that looked like it was wrapped in silk floss, and out in front was the beloved cityscape of streets and houses where tanuki, tengu and humans continued to go about their lives, crawling below. Farther away, there loomed Mt.Atagoyama, the turf of one Atagoyama Taroubou, and a row of other mountains that blocked the city off like a dark green folding screen.

I opened a stout wooden door decorated with metal tacks shaped like a breast with a nipple.

"Do not talk to me, Yasaburou-chan," said Gyokuran from the dark. "I'm in the middle of reflecting right now."

〇

Nanzenji Gyokuran sat on the wooden floor of the dark chamber all alone.

"Your butt must be hurting already, no?" I said. "You shouldn't speak about butts to a lady." "A freezing butt is the source of all illnesses. So how about coming down already, Gyokuran-sensei?" "...Don't call me sensei."

As far as I could see, Gyokuran, in a dress, was sitting completely upright with her back straight and gazing at the shogi board in front of her. The wooden room, wet and cold, was filled with a perfume scent and a grand presence unfit for a tanuki. The thick pillars were decorated with skillful pictures, the Buddha at the back next to the altar appeared like he glared at us, and the picture of a peacock on the ceiling seemed to be casting a sharp glance our way, too.

I went and sat down cross-legged opposite of Gyokuran, with the shogi board between us.

A glance at the board revealed that the neatly lined up pieces had yet to make any move. I reached my hand and, picking up the right edge pawn, advanced it forward, while trying to gauge Gyokuran's feelings. Gyokuran kept staring at the board without a word, but before long, she lifted her hand and advanced her own pawn.

And so, we started playing shogi to the beating of the heavy rain echoing through the room. I played in a reckless way driven to extremity, which little by little loosened Gyokuran, who found herself unable to resist much longer, enough to smile.

"You're being completely absurd, Yasaburou-chan. There is no shogi like that." "Do I suck that bad?" "I get a feeling that all of your pawns are constantly laughing." "When the player is an idiot, his pawns turn into idiots, too, I guess."

I imagine I was one hopelessly tough student to handle for Nanzenji Gyokuran back when she served as Akadama-sensei's assistant. Despite that, Gyokuran never failed to be nice to me. She stood up for me whenever possible when Akadama-sensei tried to bring his figurative iron hammer on my head, and when I sprouted a mushroom on my butt, leaving me embarrassed and at a loss, she took me to a proctologist specializing in tanuki. In the first place, the one to imprint the conviction that freezing your butt was the source of all illnesses into me was Nanzenji Gyokuran.

"We'll keep playing idiot shogi until you decide to get down from here, Gyokuran." "Have mercy. I'll die from laughter sooner." "In that case, let's get down. Everyone's worried about you." "...Our positions have switched, haven't they."

Gyokuran raised her face from the shogi board and smiled.

"Do you remember the time when you were left hanging from the big cedar in Kumogahata?" "When Akadama-sensei tied me up and then just left, forgetting about it, right?" "You insisted that you would not come down at the time." "Did I, now?" "Yes, you did. I still remember it like it was yesterday. Even when the sun had set, you were still nowhere to be seen, so Yaichirou-san got really worried, and we went to Kumogata together to search for you."

That night, my brother and Gyokuran crossed the dark plains looking for me.

To start with, tengu's training ground in Kumogahata was not a place tanuki would be very familiar with, and with darkness falling, it turned even more spooky. Across the plains, as wast as the ocean, tepid stray wind blew, and if you looked up at the sky, it was so full of stars you'd never see in a city that it was scary.

When the two came as far as the center of those plains, Gyokuran had a sudden fear attack that almost rendered her unable to breathe. She knew she would never take a step out of grasslands without a very good reason for the rest of her life then. Even now, when the heaven and earth switched placed, she vividly experienced the sensation of sinking into the limitless starry sky. In those plains, as she stopped in spite of herself, my brother came to her side and held her hand tight. The suffocation from falling into the cosmos itself receded, and Gyokuran came back to the solid ground found beneath her feet. But even after she did, she never let go of my brother's hand.

Some time later, they finally reached the towering lone black cedar.

"Yasaburou, heey!" they called, and "Heey," came a careless reply from above.

Having climbed up the cedar, my brother and Gyokuran found the tied up and forgotten furry little me at the top. Apparently, they were so relieved they were ready to burst into tears, but I, very young as I was, only kept my gloomy silence like your veritable furry Jizou [*4]. And not just that, I even unreasonably declared that I had no intention to come down, flooring the two. "I'm going to train in the tree top and become a tengu. And then I'll kick Akadama-sensei down from Nyoigadake," I announced my determined decision, quite unbecoming of a tanuki. I must have been really angry with sensei at the time.

Gyokuran was reminiscing about that night with a smile as she lined up the shogi pieces.

"We brought you back by force that night. You showed some eye-rolling obstinacy, I'll have you know." "Well, I was an idiot back then." "You haven't changed much since though?" "Me aside, what are YOU going to do, Gyokuran? Still going to be stubborn?"

When I said that, Gyokuran laughed. "No, I've had enough of idiot shogi."

Following the narrow stairway, we went down, finding that the rain had gone into a lull before we knew it. Nanzenji Shoujirou still sat in front of the shogi board. "Nii-sama, I'm back," said Gyokuran and lowered her head, while Shoujirou raised his and gave her a bright smile.

"I'm so glad to see that." "I'm going to go visit the Tadasu forest now. Is it okay with you?" "...Of course. Go."

T/N:

[*1] Youkan dessert (羊羹): a Japanese confectionery made with red bean paste (anko) and agar and solidified in a block shape (wiki). One of the most famous high-end youkan shops with long history is Kyoto's Toraya. [*2] Triple gate or Sanmon (三門) of a temple: usually two-storied, they symbolyze stages of enlightment and their size indicates a temple’s status (wiki) [*3] Ama-no-Iwato (天の岩戸): a cave from Japanese mythology where the sun goddess Amaterasu secluded herself because of the bad conduct of her brother Susano'o, the god of seas and storms (wiki) [*4] Jizou (地蔵): a bodhisattva of hell-beings, a savior of souls suffering in hell and protector of children and travellers, he is depicted as a shaved-headed monk with childlike features, and you can often find his statues by roadsides and graveyards (wiki) You should also know him as Enma-daiou's alter ego if you watched Hoozuki no Reitetsu.

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(Road Trip AU) "This is quite nice, thanks for taking me here, Gami." Luka said as he and Kagami sat in a boat riding along the cherry blossom-lined Okazaki Canal. "You"re welcome, it's peaceful here at this time" Kagami said before taking Luka's hand. "The Kyoto Botanical Gardens are nice, but not as beautiful as you." Luka told Kagami as he looked into her eyes as she blushed. "Thank you," Kagami says holding Luka's hand tig. Just as they were about to kiss Kim jumped out the water.

"This is quite nice, thanks for taking me here, Gami." Luka said as he and Kagami sat in a boat riding along the cherry blossom-lined Okazaki Canal. "You"re welcome, it's peaceful here at this time," Kagami said before taking Luka's hand. "The Kyoto Botanical Gardens are nice but not as beautiful as you." Luka told Kagami as he looked into her eyes as she blushed. "Thank you," Kagami says holding Luka's hand tig. Just as they were about to kiss Kim jumped out the water. “Man, the water is great here!” Kim cheered, but then froze when he saw the couple glaring at him. Kagami unsheathed her sword; a signal he knew meant he had at most 3 seconds. He swam away as fast as he could.

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I feels like writing something, since I rarely write things these days and I feels like my English will go down the drain soon, if I’m not writing.

Since I impulsively bought a plane ticket again, it’s time for me to summarize my other two trips I had this year as like a build-up for my upcoming new adventure the Taiwan trip in November. 

This first post is about my side trip from business trip...I guess

I don’t know how I usually start my traveling post, I guess I start with a disclaimer that this post is not informative at all, just me writing about my trip for future me to reminisce about it.

It has been 2 years since I last visit Mikawa Anjo, the last time was for internship purpose, (which I happened to not write about the experience :/)  I was greeted by the familiar feelings, I missed this place.  I finally semi-ly made it back.  I worked hard in this company for the past 1 year and I feels like it paid off a little.

This trip was my 6th time in Japan and took 14 days (Aug, 18th- Sep, 1st).  Since this is a business trip, I’m able to ride Thai Airways, finally something that not low-cost and I’m able to load my luggage lol. The flight is TG644, I arrived at Japan around 8am, I decided to stop by my hotel for luggage storage, then go on an adventure to Okazaki Castle.  

Before Okazaki Castle, I visited about 6 Japanese castles, so I know what I should expected from the castle.  And spoiler alert, it was disappointing for me, I don’t know why, maybe because I’m burned out from visiting castle, or maybe because I saw a greater castle?  Or maybe because I expected something from the castle that said to be the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu? The Evangelion exhibition saved this castle from a total disappointment, at least there are something interesting.  

After the castle I went back to my hotel and then meet up with my boss and some Japanese co-workers for a little nomikai.  Alcohol intake, not that much.

The second day, which is Monday, it’s the old atmosphere everybody was as welcoming as ever.  I only spent half day there because I had to visit other supplier factory in Gifu, I’m still cursing myself for not taken any photos in my phone (for the location purpose), then that night another nomikai, and this time I drunk so much sake that actually made me drunk and made me worry for tomorrow.  I’m not the kind of person to have hangover, so I didn’t worried about that, I was more worry about  how much alcohol I will have left in my blood, since Tuesday, I will have to attend welcome party.

Tuesday, another nomikai, thank god my body can handle another round.  That day, I was not drunk whatsoever, but I did drink Calpis sawla for at least 5 glasses, and other other things...overall probaby 15-20 glasses of alcohol.  Those are nothing to sake I previously drunk on Monday though.

Wednesday, nothing worth mentioning ohh except I walked 2 km for Matsumoto Kiyoshi to get the stuffs ppl asked me to buy for them.

Thursday, yakiniku with my co-workers.

Friday, actually nothing?

So one week has passed, most the weekdays activity either hung out” with my co-workers or went to grocery shopping, my co-workers (in Thailand) asked me to buy kimono for them, and they keep called it yukata.  It was a short kimono that you wear with hakama, these people want to wear them as “fashion”, these really culture appropriation *sigh*

Saturday, Saturday, where did I go on Saturday...oh Meiji Mura...again.  I actually went there two years ago to dress in Hakama while this year is to see very small fireworks with actual same age people.  Because I already went there once, not many pictures were taken 

Sunday, the manager in charge of me took me to Iga, MIe to see some ninja.  Iga Ueno castle is actually in the list of castle I want to visit.  If you talking about Iga ninja, Hattori Hanzo, probably the famous ninja from that “school”?

The ninja demonstration was interesting, idk what I expected, I guess I did low-key expected movie stunts ninjutsu, but it turned out to be just ninja technique.

I do loves Iga Ueno Castle since I could see both the life of ninja and samurai in one place.  The ninja village is really fun place and touristy.

So far the day went very well and pretty much free since the manager paid for everything, but my dumbass has to be extra and went to Nishio to see lantern festival (alone).  And you know what, the taxi cost 6000 yen round-trip just for the station to the festival ground.  And this is what 6000 yen gave me...

It only 8pm and the festival already over.  I learned something new every time I went to Japan.  Apparently, 8pm is late for the festival.  I live in the city, 8pm is still early for me.  

Monday, kaiten sushi with the same age people

Tuesday, in the afternoon I went to Toyohashi to see printing factory and the person asked me what is the food that I want to eat but have not eaten yet, and I replied “unagi”, which is something very expensive.  

I think this was about 5000 yen for a set.  In the evening, he treated me tempura like in actually tempura shop, where the chef actually fried tempura in front of us.

As a nekojita, I was suffering but it was so delicious.

Wednesday, I got stood up by the manager that took care of me 2 years ago.  No biggie.

Thursday & Friday, spent my last day in Anjo as lonely as ever.  (and spent 2 hours try to figure how to pack everything in my suitcase because of what people asked me to buy)

Saturday, I bought a day tour from Klook to Takayama and Shirakawago, the thing about tour is it convenience and probably cheaper than finding the transportation myself, but the downfall always, the time.  There are not enough time!!  I guess that is something I have to accept when it a day trip.  In the bus, I was the only non-Chinese speaking person there.

Takayama...I was eating, so I didn’t had much time to explore, but you know what I feels like if you went to Kyoto, you don’t need to go to Takayama.  It has it own charmed, I just didn’t had enough time to enjoy its charm.

The raw beef is the best out of the 3, this Hida beef made visiting Takayama worth it.

Next stop, Shirakawago, the highlight of the trip.  The sunlight and everything made the pictures look colorful and amazing.  The photos taken there was one of my favorite set of photos of all my trips. 

Shirakawago, a place I would loved to visit again during winter and spent more time there.  Due to the lack of time, I can only take pictures of here and there instead of absorb myself.  I wanted to visit more museum, more historical stuff, but the time is limited :/

After the day tour, I went to Hikone and stay at the hotel there.

Sunday, the last day let’s make it count.  I first planned to go see Tonbokiri in western shiga (which I forgot the name of the place), but because it was so far away and I don’t want to wake up early and my main goal was HIkone castle.  I ended up with visited Nagahama Castle in the morning.  That Sunday probably the day I cursed google map the most because the train schedule in there just not right!  I didn’t missed the train, but like the map told me it departs at 9, I arrived at 8:50, the trained in the google map is the train that not stop in this station like what’s going on.  And that happened a lot that day, I probably spent like almost 2 hour in (different) train station because the time in google map was earlier than the actual train. 

Anyway, back to Nagahama castle, a castle built by Totoyomi Hideyoshi

In my opinion, definitely better than Okazaki, the overall atmosphere made it “feels” more significant than Okazaki castle.  The view from the tenshuu is very pretty, in which you can actually see Biwa lake.

I just loves this kind of scenery.

After Nagahama, I went to Omi-Hachiman for some unknown reason.  I’m like that awkward person that wouldn’t push the stop button because nobody seem to get off at this stop, and just kept riding the bus until many ppl get off.  I mean they are Japanese people, they know what’s good right?  Turned out, the popular spot Japanese people are going is like a “dessert park” called La Collina, I called it dessert park because they mainly sell dessert there, and “park” because they have large greenery area.

Their most famous dessert is Baumkuchen, I personally not that big fan of it, so I bought the small size along with macaron.

Then, I followed google map to Omihachiman canal area to find the bus to get back to the station.

The canal area is what I intended to go.

I’m glad I was awkward and decided to follow Japanese people because I got have variety of scenic photos.

Next stop, the highlight of this trip Hikone Castle, 1 of the 12 original castles yayyy.

I love Japanese garden, so first visited the garden in the castle area and just like other garden I visited (except Kokura Castle garden), i was not disappointed.

The Hikone Castle, I loved the castle that I have to work my way to see the tenshu.  I love climbing, just to see castle.

The view from the tenshu also amazing.

After HIkone, I went back to Nagoya to see my same age co-workers? friends? comrades? again for the last time, and we ate “Taiwanese Ramen” which just spicy ramen

And then I got back at the airport, which seem very empty at night.

Good bye, Aichi.  I hope they will send me there for business trip again next year.  

If you read this far, stay tuned for another Japan trip, which is like 2 weeks later from this Japan trip.