Iz à Tokyo - Taipei Septembre 2006!

Harajuku and Omotesando ~

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Some of Harajuku 原宿

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Snoopy TOWN! really cute cute place for Snoopy lovers!

More of Meiji shrine!

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Meiji shrine, we buy charms and wishing board!

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At Meiji shrine.. they drink a lot of Sake. haha

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Meiji shrine

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Pictures taken near the Meiji shrine or Harajuku station

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I had some of this ice cup! It cost around 90 cents canadian for a 'CUP' of ice, it comes with a straw! lol soo convinient! And yes I've bought a lot of Japanese drinks while I was in Tokyo: POCARI SWEAT is one... but there were no sweat inside! lol Don't worry! hahaha

More of Ginza: and the Apple store!

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ギンザ Yeah!

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もっともっと！

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すし！すし！ and Chef! hahaha

Food!

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Thanks to my teacher Morita sensei, and also to a cool fellow ex-Mcgill student Naoto, I get to eat : RAMEN from Fukuoka style and also some Moving sushi! (they are dead, but the tray are movable hahaha)

Ueno JR & metro station + sceanaries!

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Ueno, we can't get enough of Food displays!

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You have a lot of PatchinKo in Ueno, well mostly everywhere in Japan. Soo popular... I've played it but I still don't get it! The marbles has to be into some kind of a slot... anyways. Then you'll see some Kimono displays, the las picture is a real "taco" which means octopus in Japanese! Yes, it is RED! I didn't took this picture for nothing :p

Ueno pictures~~~

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Welcome to Ueno, that is the other station not far from Asakusa and Akihabara by metro. Yes we are back in Tokyo!
Ueno is really huge, I mean, each station has their own world. Amazingly, shopping is everywhere!

Their cars: Masaki and Tsubo

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The first picture is Masaki's Toyota's engine, Then we can see Masaki's van and the last picture is Tatsuya's Subaru! Soo cool! hahaha

My crazy Shizuoka Adventure school friends!

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This time I meet my friends from the Adventure schools! We all meet at Hamamatsu because Masaki's place is bigger and easier to get to. He also got his new Toyota van with automatic doors!
Tatsuya has his electric blue Subaru with a super route system and entertainment system for like around 2000$CAN. Panasonic! What technology brings in life? FUN!

We drank the first night, Masaki was drunk because of his Vodka. I meet Acchan and mr. Watanabe kun.
Hirotaka was there too, it was really nice to see them again. I was really happy!

浜松 Hamamatsu at Night

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Hamamatsu! 浜松！

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Hamamatsu is like 4 hours by SLOW JR train from Tokyo! hahaha And if you take the Shinkansen, it will take 1 hour and a half! Which is double the cost of your train ticket! That is equal to around 74$Canadian!
Yes sir!

More near Asakusa!

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The first picture you see is Smoking area near the corner of Asakusa entrance! It is really cool, it explains you why Tokyo is soo clean! :p There is no Butts about it! :p hahaha

(mechant jeux de mot!)

Posting some Asakusa ones!

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Pictures from Asakusa ,
Enjoy! What you see is what you get!

At 11am it is soldier performance!

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I went to this soldier performance on time! They wern't moving for like a while, then it came!
キタ！
They were doing some gun swinging and they return to their post, frozen! haha I wonder if they have lunch breaks or go to bathroom... I wonder if they are hot under their uniform! It was 30 degrees, humm it must be hot under their metal hats! haha

The 101 building taken from the Memorial Hall garden

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This is where my grandparent's place. It is near the road called Ji Long Rd. The parc and the 101 building is only 5 minutes walk from my grandparent's appartments. It is really tall and each night, the 101 building changes colors (7 colors in the week). I get to watch it changed various times: red, green, yellow, blue, orange etc.

In addition, next to 101 building you also have a very huge HAYATT hotel! with a fountain in front! When I was there the weather was nice: 30 degrees and sometimes 27 degrees.

(Montreal, we are freezing! lol)

Taipei: My little cousin's primary school!

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This is a huge primary school in Taipei, most of the students in Taipei or in Taiwan only wears uniforme to go to school.
Also, they have numbers for each student... yes you might say that it sounds like students there are like "military" people. Hahaha, it sure looks like it, but when they have their break time, it can be very noisy in the school yard!

This school yard is gigantic! I've only took a part of it, and they always have a big metal gate around the school or... a mural.

Pictures of the day: Taipei

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The first picture is a mosaic mural, this is one art work made for the junior high school walls in Taipei.

The second picture is me, inside that huge electronic mall where I bought my LCD 19" VIewsonic monitor. This is just a really nice motocycle!

The third picture is the viewsonic stuff toy: soo cute!
The 4th picture is part of Taipei's culture: FOOD market where you can get really nice drinks for just 75 cents Canadian!