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11-10-2009 330) Shinshu Matsumoto Soba MatsuriThere is a festival that is called 'Shinshu Matsumoto Soba Matsuri'
The festival is held once every year around the beginning of October.
Around Matsumoto is famous for Soba (Japanese noodle prepared with buckwheat flour ).
Soooooo, I went to the festival to EAT Soba and more stuff :P
 It was a lovely mild autumn weather so I decided to go for a walk to get the festival.
The sky was light bule and the Sun was soft. I enjoyed a walk while feeling an autumn season.
The Soba festival was crowded crazily... It's hard to walk in streets, bit stressful :P
Anyway!
As a breakfast, I had 2 Oyaki, (inside was pickled vegies and fried leeks) and something :P< Can't remember.
↓the shop(ogawa no shou) is famous for oyaki.
 ↓This is oyaki
(a femented buckwheat dough wrapped around a stuffing of Japanese vegetables,
fruit, or anko bean paste etc etc and then roasted on an iron pan.)
 ↓pickled japanese vegies. Sorry for messy eating.
 fried leek oyaki ↓ It was absolutely beautiful even tho it's a bit smelly.
 And this is↓ something Japanese dumpling.
Inside was azuki bean paste.
 After the exercise of the stomach of breakfast,
I visited a Soba shop and waited for 20 minutes , holding a glass of local beer.
 I dicided to eat yamagata village's soba where is from karasawa soba small rural village.
 I ordered rough soba (500yen). The soba was a bit chewy like sticky rice and
you can feel smooth and a bit rough feeling in your throat.
It was wonderful. I love it very much!
one thing was not good, it wasn't a long noodle, it's a bit short.
I'll give 4 stars ★★★★☆ to the shop.
 There was many soba shops from the various prefectures, too.
and Matsumoto people eat other prefecture's soba.
To eat the most famous shop's soba, you have to line 2 hours!
Change the topic?
Honestly, I can't understand why the festival is held on Oct?
Because! Matsumoto soba havest season starts fast of Nov...
This means we eat local soba that made by almost one year old soba powder.
NOT NEW SOBA POWDER AT ALL!
Only Hokkaido has been started soba havest seson and most of shops use it this time.
It's not a real Matsumoto soba festival, isn't it???
I wanna say 'The eat all old Matsumoto soba festival' instead.
Do you reckon?
 Anyway, I had a great eating autum day today.
 As a dessert, I had an apple Gelati with apple skins. It's great, the taste was really really apple. 329) Happy days with my darling in Adelaide :D Part 1(?)I visited Adelaide to see my darling, Philip
 from 19th to 26th Sep. We got on trains to go to Aderaide city almost everyday.
Adelaide station looks scary, maybe it's bit dark?
The weather was bit? very … bad
 . I saw the sun  only twice while I stayed in Adelaide… There was very heavy rain and sometimes thunder   , too!The rainfall for September quickly made up for the lack of rain in previous years.
But I wouldn't mind even if it had rained 24/7 ! because Adelaide's weather was several times better compared to the weather
in Sydney and Brisbane.
Sydney and Brisbane's weather were extremely horrible at that time.
A lot of terrible orange dust poured into the the cities and
the people who live there could hardly go out all week
 . ↓Terrible dasty sandy weather in Sydney.  ↑Everyday scenery
The weather was not important, though,
because I could share time with Philip, and that's the main thing
 .The date in the rain was wonderful, too  Why? Because in a heavy squall, we were able to walk together under one umbrella
 .However, In the end I decided it was easier to have one umbrella each...  <That's a shame!We went to Adelaide zoo  in a heavy rain.  Koara is symbol of Australia right now?
Pandas will arrive at Adelaide Zoo in December.
Adelaide Zoo will be the only one in Australia where people can see Pandas.
I guess that soon the koala won't be popular anymore. Soooooo SAD!
Because a bit of sunshine came in a rainy interval
 , we went in a lovely botanic garden   There were a lot of huge trees and fresh greenery.
As I breathed in the forrest air I felt I was turning into a cute elf :P
The garden was huge and it's locatied in the city.
 There was a noble british garden(?) too. We also went to the Glenelg beach twice.  The very comfortable huge beach.
The beach is a loooooong powdery sand beach with tiny shells and cuttlefish bones.
I wanted to take a lot of cuttlefish bones back home with me for Choco to peck on (Choco is my pet, cockatiel).
 Water was bit unclear and
 high coz rainy weather... I found a fish crazy house along the beach
  A house? No, it is a motel
 I was really happy spending time with Philip there.
I felt every day to be bloody fresh :D
Ahhhh unforgettable days.........
To be continued. 19-7-2009 328) I very cannot believe it!Some people still piss in a street!!!!
 I witnessed it on my way to a grocery shop. 18-7-2009 327) This is the Japanese legendThis is the Japanese legend
 If you pick up this flower
,  just like this↓
 You will become poor  This is 'POOR GRASS'  (popular name)
 ※）Rather than a Japanese legend, is it a legend of Kanto? Maybe :P  1-7-2009 326) YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI will visit AUSTRALIA in Sep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can seeeeeeee my darling :D 21-6-2009 325）What is it?What is it？Can you guess
？  It's a Japanese plum It's 3 times bigger than normal one.and they smell very very sweet
  I started to make 'Umeboshi' today
  1kg plum and 180g salt.
I used 200g salt last year and umeboshi was a bit salty, so I reduced salt this time.
 Hehehe, too much Umeboshi???
I'll keep it a couple of week then go to next stage!
I've still 2.5kg Ume....
I should buy another pot :P 31-5-2009 324) exercise for arms! and todays rosesI bought it for making my arms beautiful :P
 I used it and I think it is good   It's easy to handle I can do exercise while I am watching  .Anyway, Today's roses
 Morinaye (yellow is strong )
 Morinaye (Red is strong )
 I love roses
 26-5-2009 323) MorinayeOne of my favorite Morinaye bloomed :D
   I LOVE ROSES!
my peaceful heavenly balcony :D 9-5-2009 322) a relaxing dayI'm having a relaxing arvo now, sitting on a balcony, having an espresso and updating a short blog.
As you know I have a great view from my balcony and we can hear twitter of nightingales
The twitter is amazingly beautiful.If you wanna hear it please click here.
Do you know a Japanese band who is called 'GReeeN'
Ahhhh I am writing a pointless of today's blog! (ALWAYS!?) Anyway:P Have a nice weekend, friends :D 26-4-2009 321) Thank you ☆I received birthday
 s from my BF and his mum and sis  hilip gave me a lovely wooden statue that is called 'promise'.  It's a simple statue but I can feel a very warm heart from it From Philip's mum and sis gifted me a beautiful dolphin statue.  The dolphin is a version same as the killer whale which I received as a Christmas present before.   I love my room more than before Thank you very very much  21-3-2009 319) After a business trip in OsakaI visited at the Osaka castle
< click the Osaka castle! you can learn about it!  However, it was late so I couldn't get into the castle tower  ＜saaaaaaaaaaaaad!The castle is soooo shining because a lot of gold is used on it. That's Osaka
 I felt there was the origin of Osaka people in this castle  Ummmmm, A lot of people says Osaka obashan (old? middle age women) loves animal printed clothes.   BUT! There were a few obachan wore it!!
 ＜I was really really looking forward seeing REAL Osaka obachan!!I couldn't see obachan but I found about ...
Many osaka obachan's make up are soooooo thick (top secret)
and A lot of young people wear big high heel shoes that are bigger than their foot.
That's interesting
 Well, I wanna explore Osaka!!!!
and wanna laught!Kidding!! 22-2-2009 318) dangerous!I never have a lot of things and I like simple, Simple is the BEST!
 however, my terrible stroke came out again...
The horrible stroke is .... I wanna throw away EVERYTHING I really really wanna throw away things When this stroke comes out, I think that things of my room increased Actually my stuff was not incresed, only a couple of stuff... I feel I got a few stuff soooooooooo I have to throw away ten several stuff  I should, I have to, I must, I WANNA throw away stuffffffffff.
dangerous! dangerous! dangerous
 Ahhhhhhhhh, I'll go to a next room now and look for some clothes to throw them away  otherwise I definitelly throw inportant stuff away tooooo!  1-2-2009 317) The first of JanOh Noooooooo
Phoenix updates his blogs every day  but me...  Well, I'll try to update my blog today about Jan  st of Jan, Phoenix asked me to marry him  and we started happy happy new year  We went to Yohashira shrine in Nawate Street together.  there are
 wonderful taiyaki shops on Nawate Street This one is called 'Yazawa taiyaki ya':  The shop had beautiful 'cream cheese' taiyaki!
That's the BEST Actually, it's good to wait till the taiyaki gets bit cold and the cheese is hard so
you can taste thick cream cheese flavour much more.  Of course other taiyaki's are nice too The second shop is 'Taiyaki ya Hurusato' and  'sweet beans taiyaki' is their BEST!
Not tooooo sweet and you can taste real azuki flavour Above is Hurusato's Taiyaki and bottom is 'Yazawa's Taiyaki.
 Above is 'Hurusato' sweet beans and bottom is 'Yazawa's sweet beans taiyaki.
 My darling prefers yazawa's one coz it is sweeter. Booooo! :P
And then we hung around Matsumoto city until finally we ( I ) felt hungry. We sat down at a table in a family restaurant
 and enjoyed our high calorie meals very much
My darling had Cyclops!
Look at a yummy monster!
 I had a hamburger steak, it had cheese in it.
 They were sooooooo YUM YUM Ummm? My blog sounds like it was written by a 3 year old.  ＜sorry mate! 30-1-2009 316) a hand, a hand and a footthe monkey foot and the monkey hand and my hand.
By the way I've been engaged since the 1st of Jan, 2009 1-1-2009 315) Happy New Year! - the most happiest day in my lifeA Happy New Year, Friends
Ahhh This year is already a great year for me Not 2008 ,2009 is GREATEST year!I felt it after comeing back home from Gokoku Shrine on New Year's Day (midnight).
 New friend 'killer whale' joined Jinko's aquarium. I got the whale from my BF's mum and sis as a christmas gift
.It's soooooooo COOL. I love it! Thank you very very much!
Well, My BF and I went for a New Year's visit to Gokoku Shinto shrine. It's not freezing and was not snowing this year
It's a lovely cold night with a lot of stars  .  Photo by Darling You can see the shadow of him
I prayed A LOT about my future and other stuff then
I bought a New Year's exorcising arrow and then we got home.
As soon as we got home I became sooooooooooo HAPPY Hehehehe, Sorry but it's a TOP SECRET
 <It's a kind of the happiness of the woman!?Couple of hours later, my darling and I looked at the first sunrise of a new year from my balcony.and, I was very convinced again that it becomes an absolutely good year 2009. Hope everyone is happy just like meeeeeeeeeeee :P 31-12-2008 314) Good bye 2008Good bye
  !Good bye unlucky age (climacteric age)!!  I 've just had a 'toshikoshi soba' with my darling.
 Nagano's soba is sooooooooo Beautiful!
Okay! I'll go to a shrine with BF now.
Hope it will be a great year 2009 21-12-2008 312) Choco is famous!My lovely Choco is famous recently! Look at these photos! She is on posters!!!
She is in an art museum!
Choco is famous!!
Click here for further information 13-12-2008 315) Akiyoshido(cave) in Yamaguchi PrefectureLast week I went to Yamaguchi Prefecture for some work-related reasons.
After I finished my duty there, however, I visited the cave called 'Akiyoshido'.
Actually I've been to Akiyoshido before (I think I was 5 years old at the time), and if there was a chance again to visit Yamaguchi-ken, I would absolutely go to there. I visited Akiyoshido yesterday because I remember that when I first saw the cave as a child I got a huge shock,
The cave was sooooooooo amazing. Well, Let's learn all about Akiyoshido!
Akiyoshido (秋芳洞) is the largest cave in Japan and the second largest in all of Asia.
Akiyoshido is a masterpiece of natural art and is located under Akiyoshidai
which is the largest karst formation in Japan.
The cave entrance is northwest of Yamaguchi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
 This unique karst landscape covers a total of 130 square kilometers and contains more than 300 caves.
The temperature in the cave stays constant all year (about 17℃).
The cave was named "Akiyoshido" by Crown Prince Showa during his visit in 1926.
Before, it was (not so imaginatively) called Taki-ana or waterfall hole.
Akiyoshido took over 300,000 years to form and is still slowly being shaped by water flowing out of the karst plateau above.
The main enterance to the cave is at the bottom of the plateau
where the river of water following out from the cave exits.
 Walking through the tall and narrow entrance slit reveals a seemingly impossible sized space
which is up to 100 meters wide.
 'Long deep water'
Portions are so wide and tall that it ceases to feel like you're in a cave.
For that matter, the faux-wood fence on the concrete path and flood lights don't help either.
It feels a bit like a cathedral.
 'lime flower waterfall'
 It's not the most spectacularly beautiful cave in its lower sections for the most part.
Colored flood lights are used to dress up what is really mostly only mottled brown rocks.
 'Umbrella show'
Its sheer size more than makes up for this and
midway through there are a number of interesting distinctive rock formations.
The highest accessible area where the path leaves the underground river packs in a lot more interesting features.
 It is called '100 large plates
I love the place! When I was 5 I was so shocked when I first saw it!  Dry Fall
rice fields
 'golden pillar' is the most famous in the cave
It is 15metres high and 4metres wide!
The stalactite takes 100 years to grow by 3cm!!! In all, about 1.5 km of cave tunnels can be trekked through.
It takes about 1 hour to have a look at a cave but I was in the cave for 2 hours.
When i was 5 years old I got a huge shock because the cave was soooooooooooooooooooo amazing.
This time was no different! I had that same impression again!
I'm happy that I didn't lose that pure, innocent kid's mind!
 Ahhhh I really like the amazing cave!
It was a really lovely day!
Next year I wanna take Pikun with me
Please look at more photos in Akiyoshido album.
Souvenirs from Akiyoshido
 Stalactite (brown, \100) and Marble (pink, \250)
Can you see growth rings?
 The right side is the upper part of the icicle. The left is the lower part of the icicle. |
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