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Trip Start Aug 27, 2006

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Trip End Sep 13, 2008

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Flag of Japan Tokyo, Japan
Saturday, June 9, 2007

I went in Ryokan (old style hotel) very nice, with the rice paper door and window, with wood everywhere.
I m living in the quarter of Ikebukuru as you can read on the first picture (map of the train station of Tokyo) it s a business quarter where there is also the biggest shop in the world on 9 floors each floors on the size of a supermarket in France...

I first went in Kaminarimon the thunder gate with Kazu a friend of Marie that I ve met in Russia, behind the gate there is a long street where you can buy all sort of goods from the food to the kimono etc... When you continue you arrives to the temple of steps.

Kazu introduce me with the rituals:
- pictures 15 to 18, you first check a box full of sticks, then you extract one stick where it is written the name of a wooden box, then you check which wooden box it correspond and you open it to pick up your paper with your future written on it, if you like it: you keep it otherwise, you fold it and you catch it on a bar.
-picture 19: you purify your body, your hand and your head with the smoke
-picture 20: same with the water
-picture 21: you throw a coin and then you flex twice, you clap your hands twice and then you make a wish flex with your hands joined

Then we went in an amusement park, but unfortunately I did not try the Panda kart ( a little too old)

Finally, we went in Akihabara where young people are dressing like in manga, a very nice place also to buy cheap computer and listen music, there are a lot of artist in the street, and before to go to sleep we went in a Suchi bar with the plate turning on a conveyor all around the place: the perfect day!!

Pictures

01 Metro map	02 Ryokan my room	03 Ryokan Hall way	04 Ryokan living room
05 Tokyo kimono Girl	06 Gate of thunder Kaminarimon	07 Kaminarimon	08 Nice dog dress
09 Restorant	10 nice present	11 Making cookies in the street	12 Japonese masks
13 Temple of steps	14 Temple	15 first check it	16 then extract a stick
17 find the box which correspond to your stick	18 If not good catch it	19 Purifying smoke	20 Purifying water
21 make a wish	22 Kimono girl	23 more temple	24 Flags
25 Samourai	26 Temple of steps	27 Penda kart	28 Temple
29 Detail of the temple	30 Statue	31 street selling	32 nice garden
33 Akihabara	34 Akihabara	35 Akihabara	36 before crossing
37 during crossing	38 Manga bar	39 Sushi bar	40 suchi
41 Singer in the street