japanese | Plasma Latte

A day after I flew home from my honeymoon to Thailand, I ditched the new husband and went to Japan with my twin sister! We had been looking forward to this trip since we were born I think! It was our first trip to Japan and won’t be our last. Japan was absolutely amazing! We were only there for about 4 days (6 if you include travel) and we flew straight into Nagoya so we missed out on seeing Tokyo. We soon got over that because Nagoya is absolutely beautiful! There are amazing parks everywhere and these amazing twisty looking trees all along the streets. We were there for our friends wedding which was such an experience. We both didn’t know much Japanese so it was a bit hard at times but I really enjoyed myself regardless and Japanese people are such kind and generous beings. The atmosphere there was very happy and relaxing.

Day 1:

The first day we were there we went to a sushi train restaurant with our friends Mika and Kengo (we called him Ken-san) and then to Karaoke afterwards. The sushi restaurant was great, so oishi (delicious) and me and Lulu had biiru’s (beers). I don’t drink beer often so I didn’t go much on mine but Lulu loved it (most photos taken from lulu_belles instagram)

Karaoke was super fun, I was so nervous during my first song it was a bit of a mess. But I got a tiny bit better and then after that it was just a lot of fun. Lulu and I sang Bohemian Rhapsody together and we rocked it! Haha

Us at karaoke before we went in, I was super nervous about singing argh… Mika is on the left, Lulu in the middle, me on the right

photo of me at the karaoke place taken by Lulu.

Me and Lulu playing with Mika’s Jackie bear back at her house after karaoke. We had such a great day and was definitely the best day we had there besides the wedding day.

Me relaxing at the hotel and view of Nagoya from the hotel room window. We stayed at the Hilton and it was amazing

Day 2:

On this day we decided to visit Atsuta Shrine which was absolutely beautiful and situated in the middle of a very large park. It was so amazing. We explored and bought charms and a little old lady came up and gave us presento’s of handmade bookmarks and postcards. I could easily have stayed there all day it was so great.

One of the entrances

Lulu posing for the camera

Me after buying some charms, we weren’t sure what we bought cause they were in Japanese but I’m pretty sure my pink one was for love.

Lulu’s picture taking of my face way too close… (I look a bit sad but I was actually very very happy)

Some of the bookmarks and postcards the very nice old lady gave us from the park

A Japanese couple having wedding photos taken in the park, she was so beautiful!

Lulu after leaving the park, this is the outside and it went on for ages

We walked around for half and hour until we found a shopping complex called Aeon Mall. We stumbled across a games place and found this particular catcha/gacha game.

I couldn’t leave until we got it and we ended up using all our money and not having money for a cab back to the hotel.

But we managed to get back in the end and I gave this to Lulu to keep.

One of the hauls from the local supermarket

Me at a Korean restaurant (i know its silly we ate Korean in Japan but it was so yum) having dinner with Lulu, we had beers again which I didn’t go much on

Day 3:

The day of Mika and Ken-san’s Wedding! This was such a great experience and I really don’t know how to describe how absolutely amazing the ceremony/reception was and how absolutely breathtaking Mika looked. I got teary everytime I looked at her! Haha!

We were very lucky to have seats right up the front near the wedding table. Mika checked on us a lot. Hehe

Her dress was so amazing. It had these white flowers on it that had petals coming out of them down her dress and this massive big bow on the back the reached to the floor. It was soooooo stunning! I had a bit of dress envy haha!

Mika and Ken-sans second wedding outfits! Just as amazing and stunning as her first! It had this purple flower underlay or something on the bottom so the flowers just peeped through the top layer of material. So amazing!

Day 4:

We went to visit Nagoya Castle on this day and it was sooo cool! It was damaged/destroyed in world war 2 and reconstructed later so what we see inside is just a museum really and not a reflection of what is used to be. A lot of artwork and screens were saved and are now displayed inside along with how it was built and the work that went into it. If you want to know more about it, heres a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya_Castle

Photo of me taken by Lulu just before we went into the grounds. I took a photo of Lulu but she didn’t like it much so I won’t post it here. I look a bit strange here, it was bright out

Me in front of the castle before we went in

Lulu posing too

All the charms we bought from the shop at the top of the Castle

Gold dolphin, which can be found inside and outside of Nagoya Castle (it was huge)

Model replica of Nagoya Castle

Photo of me back at the game place after Nagoya Castle. We went back for Rei

Won! I wanted to have matching figurines with Lulu

Ohzu shopping place we went to later

just a random street which I thought was cool

Lulu at dinner after our exploring

Me at dinner too (there’s a lot of photos of me because Lulu snaps a lot)

And that was our last full day there. There are so many things I miss about Japan now that I’m back home. Like their awesome supermarkets, Korokke (food), riceballs, the culture, the amazingly friendly people, the game places and most of all I miss our friend Mika and her new husband Kengo.