Tadaima! - I'm back

"Tadaima" means "I'm back" in Japanese.

And, yes I'm back!!!!!!
I mean I didn't really post anything like say-goodbye entry or something, but I realized that I've left my blog for so long to focus on my job-hunting.

In Japan, there is so-called "job-hunting season" starting from December of the third school year. From that time until you graduate, you have more than one year to prepare for finding a job, getting one, and enjoying your last moments at university.

It involves in so many company seminars, interviews, online as well as written tests, along with black suits, black hair, stresses, tears and so on.

Thanks for everybody's support, I received job offer last week. That was such a good news to me during 5 months long. It also means that I can stop every job-hunting things to focus on WHAT I WANT TO DO!
Yeah that means I will start working from next year's April, which sounds not really fun, huh? Actually I has been thinking a lot about whether to become an OL (office lady - similar meaning with salary man in Japanese haha), or do my little shop. Finally I chose to do both lol. I will try to be a good OL and study new things as an "shakaijin", as well as take care of this blog and my future shop ^_^

Anyway, here are some cherry blossom photos,"hello, I'm back" greetings for everybody.

And, thank God it's Springggggggggggggg

Hope you enjoy spring and I'll be back soon with latest entry about shop's new items ^0^

Japan 2012 - Kansai

In Kansai I went to 3 biggest cities which people often go most when traveling there. They were Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto.

First, I went to Osaka. Osaka was a big, young and noisy city, somewhat alike Tokyo. I think it would be fun to live in Osaka, because the food is great and people are said to be really friendly.

Takoyaki - Osaka's most famous food

A corner of Osaka city

Sakura

I went to Osaka castle

Osaka castle

Said goodbye to Osaka city

Next I went to Kobe. It took about 30 minutes by train from Osaka to Kobe.
Kobe is called a "Western city", because in the past there were a lot of foreigners went to Kobe port, lived there and left behind Western style architecture.

Kobe port. It was breathtaking, this scene

Ferris-wheel : my love

I got on it yaaa >0<

view from Ferris-wheel.

At that moment, I received a message from him:

nyaaaa

love the lights

Next day I went to other places in Kobe like Mount Rokko and visited Kobe center streets.
I like Kobe. It brought me the feeling of peace and somehow the image of a mature city.

A crape store

Mediterrasse is just a shopping mall. But the outside architecture is really cute

On the last day I went to Kyoto. It was sakura's full-blossom that time. I have to admit that I really love Kyoto. If I have chance to go to Kyoto again, I would love to go in Spring or Autumn. It must be really beautiful.

In Gion street

They were said to be "experiencing Maiko girls". So I bet they were not real Maiko girls

Let's see how a real Maiko is. She is a real Maiko

She is amazing...

I have a big interest in Maiko and Geisha. They are such beautiful and amazing women.

Finally, before saying goodbye to Kyoto, I went seeing sakura with my teacher. What I realized is that Sakura at night is also great *love*

The end >_<
Goodbye Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto. I swear I would go back to Kansai again someday. *heart*

From a traveling-lover with love.

Japan traveling: Spring time

Finally the so-called Spring has come. The true Spring with sakura, warmness and sunny day brought me lots of energy lol. I felt like I was reborn after a long cold winter (Winter is fun with snow too, but it's tooooo cold).
So, let's enjoy spring time.
This spring, I had chance to travel around Japan with my mom. We traveled a lot, from Tokyo, Yokohama to Mt Fuji, Hakone and Kansai.
Day 1: Tokyo: Asakusa temple, Tokyo tower, Odaiba, Shinjuku, and some shopping ^^.

Sakura in Asakusa temple

Tokyo Sky Tree :x

Tradition and Modern

Tokyo tower

Sakura and Tokyo tower

from a distance

Tokyo is such a beautiful metropolitan

In front of Kabuki-chou in Tokyo.

 

Yokohama, long time no see!!!! I love you :*

Second day we went to Yokohama city. It was cloudy and windy, but Yokohama was still a beautiful as it always is. In the afternoon, we were back to Tokyo in the middle of a storm, but mom still enjoyed shopping at Akihabara and dinner at Ginza. ^0^
Third day we left Tokyo *cry* and headed to Mt Fuji.

Mt Fuji - a holly mountain

an active volcano near Fuji-san.

 It is said that if you eat one egg boiled in this volcano, you will live 7 years longer

And I ate one haha

Hakone

Fuji-chan's face without any cloud (*'▽'*)♪

Day 4th: we went climbing up to Mt Fuji (by bus ^^). The nearer we went to Mt Fuji, the more clearly we could see the snow up to its top.

I felt like being somewhere near Russia

spring flower at Hamamatsu city

Kinkakuji - Kyoto

Next day we went to Kyoto and Osaka.

Sakura has started to blossom in Kyoto

It is said that you'll get luck if you drink water from those 3 streams.

Osaka - I felt a deep sadness as I took this photo

But Osaka is a really noisy and fun city

The trip ended there with lots of souvenirs bought by mom. We enjoyed the trip very much. After mom went back home, I waited for my friend at Osaka to start another trip lol. I will write about it in the next entry ^0^.

Spring flowers: