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Trip to Hiroshima with Hitomi in August

In the last couple of months of my stay in Japan before I headed back to England, I stayed at Hitomi's and I visited her home town in Hiroshima for a couple of days where she took me to many places

The first day her mumma cooked the most gorgeous breakfast ever! Just looking back at this now is making me hungry!

We visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial park and museum. It was really moving to see the place where the biggest atomic bombing took place where over 70,000 people died and suffered. Seeing pictures and being in the actual place is something very different and left a great impression to me that will stay close to my heart. It's something I will never forget.

Children's memorial - for the children who died in the bombing

A watch which stopped when the atomic bomb fell.

After a rather emotional day we went on a romantic dinner cruise on a boat thanks to Hitomi's mummy booking it for us! And had the most gorgeous full course dinner with wine <33

We also saw the floating temple thats made on top of the river but it was far and hard to take a picture.

The next day we went to have Hiroshima's tradition Okonomiyaki <3 made right in front of us and SOO delicious

We went shopping and got drunk at night time in karaoke and host bars, which was funny as.

I was sooo lucky to meet this girl we've had some amazing times together- she took care of me and if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have met so many wonderful people in Japan. I miss her so much! Lots more to blog about including our trip to Paris! xoxo

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One piece,ONE PIECE EVERYWHERE. Trip to Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki

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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Ayumi Hamasaki live and meeting Jedward

In June, I went to see Ayumi Hamasaki live at Saitama arena.

I have been obsessed with this singer from about the age of 14. I have seen her live before and I have even met her when she was in the UK.

my signed albums

^I know this is a terrible photo of me but it was over 2 years ago, and at 4am because we waited outside in the cold for her for about 8 hours in the freezing cold UK winter.

I went with Yuminyan and Miki. Me and Miki got our hair set in Shinjuku before we went.

The concert was amazing and ayu was so cute as always.

But you know what the BEST part of the evening was?

I MET JEDWARD.

Yes they were getting the same train as us.

When I saw them running past us I just had to go talk to them. They were so funny and were amazed at me and Miki's style. Even with their crazy hair and dress sense I guess they are not so well known in Japan, they were happy that I recognised them lol. They also loved the fact that I'm half Irish.

They told us that they were just at Ayumi's gig and was backstage with her.

I obviously had to translate what they were saying to Miki, as they pointed out her excessively long deco-ed nails and were like 'YOUR NAILS!! They are crazier than Lady Gaga!'

She thought they were so cute and funny, which they were!

They got up on the train and were dangling from the bars (note that this is a packed underground train in Tokyo) as some photographer they were with started taking loads of pictures of them and us, so I don't know if they put it up on a website or blog anywhere.

Crazy stuff!

These were the Ayu goods I got that day. I loved the pink leopard print design! I also got a set of Ayu's new false eyelashes for free ^^

I am currently about to move out of my university halls to move into a friends...after 3 days of packing and sending off parcels to my mum's in Kyushu and to my home in the UK, I am waiting for my friend to finish work so thought I would continue updating my blog.

It's actually crazy that it's been almost a whole year since I arrived in Japan, and soon at the end of the month I will be returning back to the UK. It's very very strange looking at my empty room.

Hopefully I'll be able to write more entries before I leave to go to the UK.

xoxo

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