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Apr 23, 2007 22:46

I'm not too sure myself why but I have fixated upon visiting the Studio Ghibli Museum after watching numerous Hayao Miyazaki animation films which seemed to the epitome of Japanese whimsicality and nostalgia for me. So, as it was, I purchased entrance tickets using a shopping service a few weeks before leaving for Tokyo and was all set to visit the ( Read more... )

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fossilang3l April 23 2007, 17:52:07 UTC

I have this huge urge to cling onto the gaint robot lol

blue_meddy April 25 2007, 03:13:42 UTC

To its leg, right, right?! Me too!!

night_child80 April 24 2007, 01:20:33 UTC

So many pretty pictures!

blue_meddy April 25 2007, 03:14:03 UTC

Tokyo is da pretty! XD

lilaciel April 24 2007, 01:23:21 UTC

I do know! That would be the robot from Laputa! Heh, it seems to be the de rigeur standard shot for all Ghibli visitors. I went last year but I am thankful I didnt got bombarded by school trips though there are tonnes of small kids and their parents. It is a beautiful place and I love it there! Along the way on the train, we passed by Hachijoji, wished that we could drop by there as well but alas, time constraint...

blue_meddy April 25 2007, 03:18:54 UTC

Whee!! You get a cookie for guessing correct! *hands a cookie to Lila* XD

I must have stumbled onto the period for school trips because students were almost everywhere at the popular tourist spots during my first few days in Tokyo =\ Mostly they were okay except at Tokyo Tower where they were really loud and rather rowdy.

bonedoll April 24 2007, 12:24:07 UTC

yes, i loved the ghibli museum too! it was really literally stepping into the world of ghibli!

blue_meddy April 25 2007, 03:21:09 UTC

Yes! Was so excited when it was my turn to enter the museum and the inside didn't disappoint. Everything was so quaint and sweet =D

bellisharon April 24 2007, 15:29:00 UTC

Studio Ghibli is love! =D~ (And those flower pics! Lovely!)

I bought a french CD, postcards and a paper merry-go-round (the mini replicate of the exhibition...In the end when I left Japan, I gave it to my Taiwanese dorm mate) at the shop & the cashier gave me 3 extra paper bags ^^';;; It's weird because those items can just fit into 1 single bag. He probably knew I was a foreigner XD

Tokyo is pretty cold from Autumn to Spring, so frankly speaking 9 months I'm in the cold weather. Winter's the worst; snowed more than 3 times when I was there (stupid weather!); and the irritating part to that was my heater in the room kept malfunctioning, stopping whenever the snow gets too heavy (the sound like someone throwing rocks at my window) and I have to wake up every 3-4 hours to off and turn back on the heater again. %$%^&%^%$E!$E$#!

blue_meddy April 25 2007, 03:24:10 UTC

We all love Studio Ghibli, lol!!

Eek! I love the paper bag! Mine is the one of the bushy airman with the word 'Mama Aiuto' (if I remember correctly) on it. Is yours the same? I only got one tho because I only bought a sticker and a notepad from the gift shop, lol. My fren thot of buying some soundtrack CDs but they were too expensive. But just as well she didn't buy it then, because we found cheaper secondhand ones at the Harajuku Book-Off later.

Your room sounds quite..... =X Which part of Tokyo did you stay when you were there??

bellisharon April 25 2007, 06:54:03 UTC

Book-Off is love too!! ^____^
Why don't we have them in SG? T___T I could save so much more on Japanese books.

I stayed at Komagome (Bunkyo district). It's in the middle of the Yamanote line, between Ikebukuro and Ueno. That place is an old people district, but that's a very homely area.