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Zoo, Karaoke Again, and a Lot of Anime!

Japan has a long way to go on quite a few things… like animal welfare. But I did still enjoy Ueno Zoo. It was pretty crowded, but super cheap. Never been to a zoo that only cost about £4! Plenty of adorable animals (plenty of small spaces too but let’s hope they enjoy being fed well…), and I enjoyed going with my friend 🙂

Queueing to get in

Hi!

First attraction; sad panda

sleepy bear

“Brave” anyone?

One hot polar bear

Hedwig?

purdy

Gorgeous colour

Lunch under the giant wisteria

lunch

Fun train to get to the other half of the park

on the train thing

Those Jackass Penguins….

They’re so annoying…

This guy is awesome

Ooper looper!

This guy is huuuuge

I love that Red Pandas are called Lesser Pandas in Japan. They’re so sweet.

Children’s day soon

Post-zoo manju

Early May brought another round of….. Karaoke! If you haven’t worked out how much I love karaoke yet I guess you haven’t been reading this blog much 😉

Pre singing Starbucks because I am a slave to the corportation

Marlene’s karaoke crush

So much fun with the TUFS lot

Dawn in Musashi Sakai – love it

Breakfast!

Had a good time with lots of people in early May. Michelle and I went back to that waffle stand, watched so so much anime, and ordered pizza like kings.

In the print!

Very delicious

We are too cool

Polaroid of the day!

We got mentioned on their twitter! It says “Thanks for bringing your friend today! And thanks for FMA, I can’t wait to read it. The Lady Gaga party was fun too (o^^o) Please send my regards to Sam and Maisy” 😀

Anime and pizza time

I borrowed Michelle’s hat

Yesssss FMA

Bekah time! Okonomiyaki; totally delicious.

Here we go!

Get the bowl, mix it up

cook it up

done, waiting for sauce

Delicious!

On the 10th and 11th, Michelle and I extended our anime binge, by going to J-World in Ikebukuro! It was amazing. Yes we are adults, no I don’t care the place is aimed at kiddies XD We also went for a quick bimble to Tokyo Dome to see the Jump Shop (all One Piece related). It was pretty cool! We visited a Book-off or two too, to buy, yet more manga!

My balcony at TUFS was brilliant; free football game and cheer show

At Tokyo Dome

Life size!

Roller coaster through the wheel

Denny’s for lunch

In we go!!

How balanced are you?

Ninja reaction times

We rode this about 4 times

Ended up buying a full day pass 🙂

Mixed messages…

Get her!

Spoils from J-World

Spoils from the day

Slowly collecting them all

I know these posts are slowly just becoming collections of pictures, but at this point, I am happy just to show off my favourite memories here. Suffice to say I cannot explain my feelings with mere words; every experience I had was extraordinary. Including what I’ll leave you with here; a study date with my little bro. An absolute cracker of an evening that was, eh Tim?

Super shiny hand

The start of spikey hair perhaps?

And some guitar practise; Tim is a total dude.

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Shinjuku Park, Waffles, and Birthdays

I have always loved that Japan mixes old and new so much; with their super traditional shrines etc and then the most modern of mod cons. Shinjuku-Gyouen really demonstrates this. I guess it being a park in a big city it would naturally do so, but it makes for pretty pictures anyway! I went with a bunch of SOAS buddies on the 19th of April. Look how pretty it is!

At the entrance

Sam included!

My ticket

Sakura crepe; wasn’t bad but wasn’t incredible

Japan grass… not very grassy.

Metropolis and greenery

My first time seeing wisteria!

Sam looking lovely with the flowers

curly curly

After we’d had a nice long day hanging out in the park, I met a bunch of the TUFS lot and went for a good old Karaoke 😀

Marlene being cute

Selfie!

Michelle, Micheal, Ksenia, Kent, Marlene, Nat, and me 🙂

Sam stayed over, mostly in burrito form XD

The next day I took a trip to Kichijouji with Sam and Michelle, to visit Michelle’s favourite waffle stand. They’re pretty awesome there; really tiny bar with tasty waffles and friendly owners. Link: https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1320/A132001/13164007

Outside the stand

Yum!

The Hama-sans

So for my Japan year abroad birthday, what did I do? I spent time with some of the most wonderous humans in my life. I went with Sam and Marlene to Harajuku for a bit of shopping! I got some hugely thoughtful presents from my TUFS friends too. I felt very loved 🙂 And jacket potatoes for dinner!