A couple of weeks before I came back to England, I visited my family again in Kyushu. This time my grandma took me to Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki. This is a European inspired residental-style resort that was built after a mediaeval 17th century Dutch town.

They have many beautiful architecture, museums, windmills, shops, food, rides, shows and entertainments inspired by Europe.

This year they had a huge feature of currently the most popular anime in Japan ONE PIECE.
Until now I had never seen an episode of ONE PIECE before, but I still enjoyed all the state-of-art visuals and 3D entertainment they had there. Especially the Sunny ship, a huge ship which cruises around with lots of art and 3D characters of the characters. There were too many people, especially kids there for my liking and of course it had to be one of the hottest days of the year but still it was very interesting to see and I just LOVEEDD the gorgeous food there.















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so I was about to close this blog and just use my ameblo from now which I try to update frequently on my phone.

But decided to carry on after months of not posting!

I have just been super busy, in the last couple of months I have been fortunate enough to meet so many people and made so many great friendships and connections whom may be helpful to me in the future.

It is currently almost 3am and I'm writing because I can't sleep since I just had another scary experience with sleep paralysis. This is something I have been getting quite often since moving to Japan and its been terrfying, but I will talk more about this later.

So uh.... where can I start?

Last time I posted about Nikko way back in February. Well soon after that I went to Kyushu again and my mum took me to Seoul in Korea.
It was my first time to go there and it was amazing!

Things there are so cheap and the shops with rows of beauty product stores with shops assistants who constantly throw free samples at you.
I got a lot of nice stuff for very cheap.

And the food there is delicious! I definitely plan to  go back there again sometime.

Me and my mum went via tour and so we met up with a load of people at the airport who took us shopping then dropped us off at our hotel. They also booked everything we wanted to go to such as seeing a play and going to a spa so they were very helpful.

So I haven't been able to update in a while so I've been super busy recently.

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and New Years.

I went to Kyushu for Christmas & New Years to see  my family. They took me to many places and I had a really good time.

I'll start with some pictures from LOVE GAL's new years party meet the day before I left for Kyushu.



On New Years Eve, we went to a local small shrine to pray at midnight and meet neighbours, and suddenly my mum suggested we go to Dazaifu Tenmangu, a very famous large temple at 1am. There were so many people especially youngsters! Many were lining up for famous Sakura mochi. I have been to Dazaifu many times before when I was younger but not at this time, it was great fun and I hope to go again sometime.