This post about Himeji has moved to a different website called Green House Japan.
Green House Japan is a blog started by three non-Japanese people in our 20s living in Japan, and I'm one of them. We'll each take turns posting about different things that interest us. We hope that they'll interest you, too.
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17 comments:
GREAT post!! I have never been to Himeji and never thought about going, but this makes me want to go!! Next time I'm in Kansai I will for sure... soon I hope!!
Let's rejoice!! haha.
Do you know Shosha Mountain? The scenery of the Last Samurai movie .When you' ll go to Himeji?
I don't know it. I think Tom Cruise is in that movie, so I'm not interested in it.
I've been to Himeji a few times before but have no plans to go again at all.
Thanks for the comment!
Let's exalt!
Hey, guess what... Hiroki says your name in the "Rocky" Adrian voice like Viviaaaaaaaaaaan! ha
I'm glad to see your still going to keep your blog up! I live in Osaka and I've been wanting to find a new city that wasn't a bajillion miles away. I'd love to see an actual thrift store here too. It's weird living in a place where most of my stuff is...new.
Really?Last samurai interesting isn't only about Tom Cruise but has others great actors. A little bit japanese history and last journey of the samurai.I think after that, japanese recognized needs open mind about many things,include learn english. Are you english teacher?
@anonymous
Thanks for your comment. I have never seen that movie mostly because of Tom Cruise but also because I'm not especially interested in that genre of historical fiction. I love history, but am more interested in 20th century history, especially everything after 1960. Samurai don't especially interest me.
Actually, I started this blog before I even moved to Japan and I specifically tailored the blog to get as many google hits as possible. So my job and location aren't exactly as someone who doesn't personally know me might think. A lot of what's on this blog about my personal life isn't true, but you can still use my blog to learn a lot of things about life for a foreign girl in Japan.
Judith! I'm going to make a blog post specifically for you about Osaka thrift stores. I like your blog. You are yr husband are cute!
I hope you have fun in Japan!
If you don t know old history in Japan never can tell to foreigners about his culture (Japanese). Shrines, temples and castles. And, personally,i follow your blog to see your inconsistency in facts.
Well, that's why you're anonymous.
Do you think that people living in London can blog about life in London without being well-versed in the history of Knights and Damsels?
Or that Canadian bloggers can write about Montreal nightlife without simultaneously writing about the Hivernants?
Besides that, I do know a lot about Samurai. It's just that it doesn't personally interest me, and watching a Tom cruise movie about a subject that doesn't interest me in the first place makes me even less interested.
Please tell me in what post you think my facts are so inconsistent.
Lay off the Anon, he's obviously a bit touched. Last Samurai was a fantasy of the white director and filmed in NZ.
Also, I thought you were vegetarian, bitch. All that whining, no you're eating eggs? LOLZ @white bitches.
I lived in Himeji for a year and really loved it! Having grown up and gone to college in small, rural towns Himeji was a nice transition into "city" living.
Over the course of the year that I lived there I discovered a lot of great restaurants with relatively cheap, quality food, awesome cafe's, and a few smaller museums that usually had really interesting exhibits. Himeji also has a lovely library with a huge english section, a great used cd store, and yes tons of thrift shops. Did you go to the one directly above Starbucks next to the train station? They always had a good selection.
My favorite thing about the city was it's centralized location to bigger cities and the fact that it was so close to the mountains. I was literally a 20 minute bike away from multiple mountain ranges that provided great hiking.
Yes, the nightlife left much to be desired, but as I was only about an hour train ride away from Osaka that wasn't an issue. Himeji isn't nearly as glamourous or vibrant as Tokyo, or as steeped in history as Kyoto, but I loved it nonetheless.
On a completely different note, I'm curious why you didn't like Ghost World?
I'm vegetarian, not vegan. Google it.
@the last Unknown
Thanks for the great comment! I haven't been to the thrift shop above Starbucks, so I'll have to check it out!
Vegetarian in what sense?
Hilarity.
It's only the whitegirl/whiteboy definition that says aborted chick foetuses are A-OK for someone on a 'vegetarian' diet.
The two religions you types venerate so highly, Hinduism with its massacres and Buddhism - neither ever included eggs as OK.
So telling one to 'Google it' in this case is not really on, and also shows bare the western supremacist mindset you hipster buddha-loving veggies really have.
I don't venerate any religion, and I haven't eaten meat since I was a little kid. An egg cannot feel pain and I personally don't feel guilty about eating it. You can eat whatever you want, and I'll eat whatever I want.
It's pretty obvious from your hostility that you're white an western, too. Ha. Got a little bit of guilt or shame going on.
If you don't like this site, you don't have to keep coming to it and commenting. You're done here.
Mount Shosha is worth seeing regardless of whether Tom Cruise has been there or not. From the top of the cable car, if you are there at the right time, you can see an image of Himeji castle in rice. Seven varieties of rice are planted to give the right shading for the image. I was fortunate enough to see this.
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