Category: Japan
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Kurama – Kibune
I take advantage of waking up early to go to Kurama. It has been a month since I want to return there, and I haven’t seen the momijis around Kyoto yet. There are some in the city of course, but they are a bit dull. From what I heard, it has been too hot here…
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Loose pictures: October 2023
Views which did not ended in a post of their own.
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Kamikochi
Intro Leaving at 10:50pm from Kyoto station by a night bus. The night is short since it takes about 6h30 to get to the Kamikouchi bus terminal: arriving at 5:20am in a freezing cold. With the darkness and the fog, nothing exists beyond 50m. At 6am I have breakfast in the cafeteria that has just…
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The countryside within reach of Kyoto
+1070m / -940m / 19km The hike of the day is a stage of the Kyoto Trail, at the North-East of Kyoto (in blue on the map). It is feasible from station to station by slightly adapting the route. I take the subway at Sanjo towards the North until Demachiyanagi, and I change for a…
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TOTALFAT live
Ahh.. TOTALFAT. The only Japanese band that I have been listening to on a regular basis for several years now. I found them because one of their title served as one of the endings of an anime I was watching (Place to Try, in Naruto Shippuden). This band offers the sweet balance between the punchy…
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Loose pictures: september 2023
Views which did not ended in a post of their own.
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Going with the flow
This Sunday I go to a meetup at the Kyoto Laundry Cafe. It’s a bit crowded, there are one or two Frenchmen and a few French-speaking Japanese who seem happy to practice. Other expats as well. People of all ages. I talk to a Japanese guy who I met yesterday in another meetup… Yesterday again,…
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Mount Hiei
+730m / -760m / 14km I meet two colleagues on the Kamo around 8am and we go to the hike starting point by bike, around 6km North-East. We drop the bikes on what looks like the parking lot of the nearby hostpital (Japan Baptist Hospital), not knowing whether we are allowed to do so, and…
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Around Gion
A bit of rest this Sunday afternoon, for the first time since I got here. I just need to get some stuff from Yodobashi (again) and from Nitori, the Japanese Ikea. Both stores are near the Kyoto station. The weather is rather nice, this must be a good time to go there following the Kamo,…