Getting the knack of Tokyo's Arty's culture (1): Tokyo.JapanTimes inauguration cocktail

Hello Ozzies!

Last week was an incredibly busy week...in the best of the senses, that is. Thanks to a little of French touch (Sham and Simon, this one go for you), the most varied things crossed my eyes. From a cocktail in Mori Tower with artists and film makers, to a jazz concert of an awesome Polish pianist in Shibuya, without forgetting an indie concert from a Japanese group, last week can be officially categorized as hectic. So hectic, I must plot it in more that one post...

I would like to make a post about the jazz concert, with pics and videos, but since I didn't bring my camera, it's going to be a bit complicated...well, we'll see how it turns out. Anyway, the concert was so good I don't want to miss the chance of writing down here the name of the artist: Leszek Możdżer. Ok, I guess we are not used to reading Polish names, but the guy is really really good.


That being said, let's move to our topic!


The Japan Times has just created a new web page, called Tokyo.JapanTimes. It's supposed to be a page where people post their impressions,ideas, opinions, etc about Tokyo. Here's the link of the site:

http://tokyo.japantimes.co.jp/

If you have time, it's a good spot to get some ideas about the conventional (but also the not so conventional) Tokyo where I (almost) live.


I still don't quite know how we managed to get there, but we did! Vulcanus on the go as we are, we couldn't miss the opportunity of mixing ourselves with the trendy Tokyo...

 

 

 

  

  

See you Ozzies!

The Japanese version of The Way of St. James: The Kumano Sankeimichi

Hello Ozzies!

More of this experimental crap (which is just an arty and pseudointelectual excuse to hang pictures on the blog without those never ending paragraphs you all detest, including 5 of my 7 personalities). Today, we're cahrging our batteries in a river onsen, then travelling through a UNESCO path to reach the headquarters of the Kumano shinto shrines. Crazy grannies, funny puppets, and loads of walking...and...

Shingu (7a.m)

  

Kawayu Onsen (normally you carve your own bath in the sand of the river, and you set the temperature by mixing river water with termal water)

  

  

On the way to Kumano Sankeimichi (playground of the granny hunters)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

Entrance to our first Kumano shrine: Kumano Hongu Taisha

 

  

  

  

  

  

Second Kumano shrine: Kumano Hayatama Taisha

  

  

On the way to the third...

  

  

  

  

The third and last: Kumano Nachi Taisha (the temple worships the kami of the waterfall)

  

 

 

 

 

I couldn't finish without a small ¨dedicasse¨ to my French friends. You see, French is an international language. You can find it even in Shingu (even if the spelling is not what it used to be, lol)

See you Ozzies!

A bit of nothing and everything (1)

Hello Ozzies!

Today, some random stuff about Machida, my work, and my everyday life here. It's been a couple of weeks that the temperatures go below zero during the night, and in the morning we wake up with snow everywhere! I like going to work like this...The first two pictures are from around my house, the third one is outside the company.

 

 

We have a bit of a crazy weather these days: some others, you can wake up with 20 degrees C outside and a bright sun in the sky. And you can see the trees starting to blossom. These are some pics from the trees inside Schlumberger:

 

  

  

  

Antoine (one of my friends from Supélec in Paris), came for a couple of weeks to Japan (well, by he's still here!). During his last week, we did some sightseeing around Tokyo. Among other places, we went to Ebisu, where Robuchon's restaurants are (there's a third one in Roppongi, but it's more a tapas bar...). I have to say, the French castle in the middle of the steel and concrete of Tokyo was quite unexpected... 

 

 

I would like to end this random post with two videos I took a couple of days ago, while going to work. It was the first time the Yokohama line (it's the name of the line I take to work) was having delay. The results? Well, just take a look at the platforms...

People around here get a bit [add your adjective here] when this kind of things happen...And they believe in the compressible capacities of the human body. They really believe in this. It's the only reason to explain this kind of behaviour...

So this is it! More in the next post, Ozzies!