Thursday, July 2, 2009

Kanagawa Prefecture! 神奈川県! Part 2

After sightseeing and walking around for a long time, we arrived at the Youth Hostel we are going to spend the night at. It looks like a normal house from the outside but in the inside has a very cool wooden-style going on. A Youth Hostel is a cheap place for young backpacking people can stay at. They also provide breakfast and dinner. Here are some more pictures:

The entrance and dinning room.

The room my family stayed in. Two beds and enough floor space for two futon beds. Tatami matted floors feel very nice.

The living room with a huge manga collection.

Here are a couple of mangas I like. -Top Left: Touch (A romance) -Top Middle: Jungle Emperor Leo (Tezuka Osamu) -Top Right: Dragonball (Teen Fighting) -Bottom Left: Detective Conan (A mystery/investigation) -Bottom Middle: Yamato (Space/Science Fiction) -Bottom Right: YuYu Hakusho (Teen Fighting)

On the roof of the Youth Hostel. The building has 3 floors plus the roof. A very pretty view of ocean.

At the Yuigahama beach. Lots of seaweed and fish on the shore. Not the best beach I went to my still nice.

I was surprised to see Blowfishes washed up on shore. Can you see it here?

The coolest shape for a うちわ (fan) :D

After hanging out for the night and the morning, we left the hostel to go to Chigasaki where my mom wanted to visited. Why does my mom want to visit there so badly? Because her favorite band, サザンオールスターズ, came from that city. Streets are named after them, buy souvenirs with them on them, and foods featuring their names and such.

Here is a picture of them.

My mom's ultimate goal for going to Chigasaki is to visit this famous 'C' statue. In one of Southern All Stars' music albums, they used this statue as their cover. If you click on this image to make it bigger, you can see that I am pointing at a cool looking island in the distance. It is also said that if a couple stands in this statue, they will get married :P

Posing in front of a huge Kuwata Keisuke model (Main singer in Southern All Stars). Originally I was going to take my shirt off to look like him but my mom stopped me :P

After finishing, a two hour train ride and we were back home. ああ、つかれた!(Ahh, I was so tired!)

3 comments:

  1. southern! C: i only know a couple songs by them like "tsunami" and "dirty old man" but they're really good. you're lucky you get to go to different places in japan. i've only been within tokyo and yamanashi cos that's where we used to live... are you going anywhere else?

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  2. Mhmm, I really like Keisuke's voice, so low and manly :P
    Haha, thanks! Ho~ I've never been to Yamanashi... But other places I will visit other than Saitama, Tokyo, and Kanagawa this time will be Nagano.

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  3. s.all stars! i just started gettin to know them, after i watched a really good drama, Boku Dake no Madonna, in which the opening theme is sung by them :D ahhh tanoshii neeee?? ^^;

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