My wedding trip in the astonishing Japan, the land of Rising sun

I finally made ??the most beautiful dream of my life, going to Japan !!!!!

 

13/06 – 26/06

Hello everyone

today after a good night's rest we finally left for Milan Malpensa airport where we wait for the flight Milan-Tokyo 14:30 12-hour travel well but I hope I scared you see me on a plane for 12 hours, usually on our aircraft when the aircraft dancing I'm sick! Luckily I took with me a tranquilizer so 'would make me sleep a little', we do everything in check long with so many other people and immediately notice a hostess at my shirt printed with our names and date of marriage of yesterday and there makes the best wishes! We climb on the plane and of course 'much' of our very normal and just some little-known difference with our .... Space to stretch your feet, the cover, a pillow to sleep, the silence of the engine, the silence of all passengers very few Italians and the Japanese video with its remote control! The plane leaves, cabbage in Japan and I'm going 'crazy! I take a somewhat 'drops and I start from the beginning to doze when I wake up, fortunately we are told that the videos in front of us there is' an interactive world with movies, games and more so that figattaaaaaaa' I immediately started to look at all the films and documentaries, unfortunately, immediately to the mark did not want to know even after several resets we went to talk to the captain and rightly so. After a night's sleep comes you could choose whether to eat Italian or Japanese, do you think I could ever choose .... After dinner come several things biscuits Japanese tea towels etc. .... At some point, and 'was great after a night's sleep we have seen the' dawn from one of the windows and 'great shame because I could not photograph it was wonderful!

14/06 Tokyo - At 8:30 am we landed in Tokyo Narita, some 'idiots walking the corridors and immediately notice the silence that there is' they do not like us to clean, even and especially in the bathrooms! ! The bathrooms are completely different from ours so clean that you could eat, and especially electric scented!! They have a kind remote from a side that allows you to choose various things that at first I struggled to understand how the temperature of the tablet, the pressure and temperature of the water that is sprayed from below (they do not have a bidet) and The recorded sound of running water (for Japanese women to make others feel badly, their noises). We continue the path and we are greeted by a lot of posters and written comics arrive at a point where there is' a lot of tail to do to pick up our luggage we go patiently in serpentine route and wait at one point we see a man very busy calling the other passengers and take them to the doors, so a myth 'by the tail and a lot faster than a Japanese who has tried to pass in front of waiting for their turn in silence equal to Italy! After this passage we see that we get from the rollers and there are our suitcases heck .... Fortunately, they had set aside a portion iuffffff .... from there we explain that 'a train and the subway to take to get to our hotel so' we do a piece to walk to the train goes straight down 'there is a sort of herald in the flesh in front of us says the ads to the microphone and trying to get on the train we are stopped by the guard that there is no sign of the cross arms' cause we are the cleaning, do you contooooooooooo!! We finally got on a little rest 'seized by an attack of sudden sleep I buy a coke in one of the many Japanese vending machines Japanese soft drink, we go by train and a wave of Japanese attacks us, we go up on the meter' that will take us' to Hamamacho our stop and we see a lot of people sleeping sitting with her head down 'mah .... we got a look around and begin to ask twisted right and left .... Unfortunately, so do not speak English' gestures to try in the meantime I fall asleep from all sides at the end we decided to take a taxi to take us to the hotel is only 10 meters but of course 'and it' worth it, the taxi very different from ours: black car, right side door electric lace everywhere, taxi driving gloves, badge in plain sight, and finally at the Hotel Shiba Park Hotel to the 7 th floor!! Although tired we impose a stroll and eat something so 'typical Japanese snack with meat and fish, vegetables sbrodazza, Japanese supermarket, they walk in the park Shiba' near the hotel, we also saw a small cemetery that their sadness There are only a few written all made equal and above the graves and also no pictures of children are made with a large number of small figurines as sopra.Poco away from them 'we visited the famous Tokyo Tower, I could not wait to climb, very similar to our Tour Eifel just that and 'red' and is' a huge antennona (episode of Sailor Moon) from the 'above you see a beautiful view of most of Tokyo probably with good weather there ...' a lift from paurraaaaaaaaa top of the exit there is' a beautiful and very big shop that figattaaaaaaaaaa hello kitty! Back near the hotel and the difficult task 'was to choose where to eat and what is particularly so' we toured we have inspected all the restaurants for good in the end we chose a place where they serve delicious soups huge, so that they work enter, greet you with a bow and take you where you choose to machhinetta and pay whatever you want with the prices of food and photos of our neighbors as machines for cigarettes and that's what brought us to eat soup with a huge meat boiled eggs and nori, I must say that the aesthetics leave much to be desired but the taste and 'very good! Bought breakfast at a supermarket (keep open 24 of 24) will finally close to bed!

Oyasumi nasai! = Good night!

15/06

Hello everyone and here we go again here!

15/06 Tokyo - This morning after a good night's sleep nearly 12 hours to recover from the shock and a good breakfast we walked to Tokyo, the thing that jumps more 'eye and' the silence that there is 'in town' not as we that there is' an example of a noise I'll try to go for a walk in Via XX Settembre do you hear? ambulances? machine engines? Smog? all this 'they do not exist there' just peace 'and the only noise you hear' the sound of the traffic light to announce that you can 'go with his godly example and all the rest' silence as to turn the public gardens , while 'cause they use electric cars (they have very few, they do not need good public transport network !!!), use the meters' or the bus and ambulance, and the only' had not passed no deafening siren ! spoke at the microphone in Japanese! Another particularity 'I see,' and that they have 'no smoking Starad for which we do not exist yet .... For those who want to smoke (very few) there are locations where you can' smoke a cigarette, you let them 'inside the butt and walk away 'without mess or bother others! During our walk we immediately attracted by a shop that looks like an optical out has a very special machine that allows you to clean your glasses (for free) with water and I think after a few seconds of hesitation infrared we engage ourselves to feel, as crazy as cleans them shine ever so 'good in my life! From our legendary stop "Hamamatsucho hamamacio =" take the subway 'to go downtown we immediately hit by a herd of crazed Japanese who walk on the left .. how strange! We arrive in a few minutes to Tokyo station and from there 'begin to turn immediately try to find a bank, but unfortunately we find that the only one that accepts our credit card and' City Bank to keep it in mind if you happen 'to Giapone we are going to become crazy!! In the meantime, and we 'come a little' hungry so 'let's look at a local and we taste, we of course immediately greeted with bows and kindness (heh heh same here by us), the thing that catches one's eye and not There are only two seats folded against the wall (they do not sit down eat up menus are crazy !!!), 'in Japanese is not only a word in English here are the men who speaks with the case of work in front of us various strange objects a tap from which water comes out hot, little box with chopsticks and a jar of green powder that we found to be green tea and natural water with ice always free here!! We cast to order more 'or not understanding the menu' a set of sushi and miso soup very good other than that they give us in Italy, even the sushi melted in my mouth and the rice was not sticky like that that give us usually great! After several photos and video with the restaurant we ventured to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, and 'huge,' a sort of island among the tower blocks of the center is located inside a giant park where obviously we have a little 'relaxed looking at the black sky, out of the building a lot of workers with the light stick in his hand, police officers there 'catered' one every 20 feet from a sense of security .... After a break we return to the ice center specifically in the district "Akihabara" technology and Cosplay = boys / girls who dress like cartoons figattaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Lots of lights, bright posters, cartoons and boys / girls dressed as cartoon characters too good, let's go into a shop selling mobile phones to ask if there a SIM to put in the Japanese mobile phone but unfortunately the clerk apologized and told us that they are only sold residents that do not work with our phones sigh sigh ... then to my right I see a machine that looks very much a sort of cabinet with many small doors, in reality 'it is a phone charger and coins will enter the public let them upload and take it back to load and how many times we 'happened !!!!???? Walking there is a huge electronics store are seven floors we'll see it all, there is fortunate that 'the elevator one floor on top of souvenirs and finally Hallo Kitty (they are passionate), there was everything from stuffed animals to the mega bento, the cutlery, the towel, clothes etc. ... ... .... In the evening, by dint of running is so hungry 'we stop at a tavern (as we call them) to eat in the restaurant screaming annoyance, here do not serve sushi, but with huge zuppone in meat broth, egg, nori, and did not seem so good at the beginning but then it mangaindole mmmmmmmmmhhhhhh buonooo

(To be continued)

16/06

Hello everyone and here we go again here!

16/06 Tokyo - Hello everyone today we went with our legendary Shinkansen train in a suburb of Tokyo in Ueno, where there is a very nice zoo full of animals of all races and colors, the heat was terrible, and 35 degrees in the shade 98% humidity ', it could not be very lucky there were outdoor pavilions indoors with air conditioning. The animals that I liked more 'are the small red panda, teddy bears and monkeys and the' think this park so extensive that there 'even a service lift from side to side it took us 3 hours to visit all, at its center we find a great lake full of orchids and a great service for boats to enjoy the view.

From there we moved to another area called Asakusa where the temple of Senso-ji beautiful with a beautiful "brings the thunder ', unfortunately when we arrived it was already' closed 'cause in Japan with 17 closed it out there wait! Outside the temple there are many children who carry out the service risk (the risk is a means of transport which, in its original form, using human power for the traction of the vehicle. The risk is composed of a carriage with two wheels on which may take place one or two people. The driver is inserted between two long bars towing the vehicle) and a fantastic street full of souvenir shops had to keep me cool mark on a leash to keep me from buying everything I saw!! From there, 'we took two steps inside the neighborhood and' beautiful just as I always imagined Japan with its ancient houses and restaurants as if time had stopped! Along the way we also met a group of geishas who were going to take a taxi, I tried to ask if they could take a picture with me but they put on their running shoes as if they could sin ... we crossed a lot of shops selling biscuits of all shapes and sizes with cartoon characters on animals, I also met the dog Hachiko too sweet gave me a lot of reservoirs. For a snack we found a very nice little place where they serve sushi on a fantastic roll goodness'! In the evening we reached a friend of Mark who lives in Japan in Tokyo in the Roppongi district of the beautiful neighborhood full of young music and folklore, the multiethnic only negative that in Japan there is still no law on smoking in the way 'we were often embedded in a cloud of smoke 'was a bit' like stepping back in time ... took us to eat at a restaurant where they bring the soup served inside the pots as big as our own we use to make the dough .... I thought I would not have ever made and instead eheheh.

Good night and tomorrow we go to Nikko!

17/06

Hello everyone and here we go again here!

Nikko 17/06 - Beautiful!

Good morning everyone, here we are again with another leg of our beloved Japan, we moved with the legendary Shinkansen train to coincide with the train to Nikko 'cause the station to the village and' very long you go through a long valley between fields and beautiful forests up to the small station of the village where we found wisdom from the bus 'on foot' 1 mile walk uphill in the sun (do you). Once there we are greeted by an eerie silence as if it were a magical place, it seems to take a dip in the past, including bright colors for the great humidity 'and spiritual' you breathe. Places to see: the valley of the temples and the bridge above the Shinkyo beautiful emerald water that passes under it. Walking through the various temples in the sanctuary we have found that even many Futura-San celebrate weddings, and now we 'come to mind that we could celebrate them, but also our paperwork too! The valley and 'made ??up of many shrines, most of them on top of hills which are reached by steep flights of stairs I thought I'd spit the lungs at any moment! What is most 'beautiful about this place and' I think the respect they have for their many monuments' that enter into their sanctuaries must take off your shoes and woe betide anyone who dares to approach them with the foot! Going down 'to the path we visited the bridge Shinkyo, surrounded by beautiful emerald green waters. In the village we have combined one of our, as you can see in the video below attraverdo we passed a small cemetery and guess what 'was one of those gongs that play them during the ceremonies, could we not try to play it! ! nooooo this is the result of course! eheheheh

18/06

18/06 Kyoto - Part 1

This morning we moved from Tokyo to Kyoto we went through our legendary Shinkansen (train) fast! We have witnessed the arrival of the train and we approached the mark, and 'I went I had a problem with the suitcase, were already' all gone up and in a moment the train doors closed even though I have also tried to stop him with their fists banging on the door , Mark could not help but look at me as I wept ... desperate. the train, and 'taken away my mark and I was left alone at the station with people who do not speak my language they understand English. Unfortunately, Japan does so 'at their own pace or you'll get used to otherwise stay down', as I wept and I 'came to mind though that if I got on the train and if I were dropped after the stop after so maybe we would meet again' I did, and the station after I found it, and I 'and he came in against a big hug. Arrived in Kyoto we saw a lot of nice shops in the station, we went immediately to the hotel to rest a while '. In the afternoon, under a water that did not end more than 'we made them for a spin' round, the thing that surprised us just how many police there 'brigade around and especially those with a stick in hand at least 4 light at an intersection and that eheheheh which Italy, walking walking we came to a garden with a pagoda temples and everywhere a sign to alert the fire! (They have a terrible fear of fire will 'and' all made of wood). Towards evening we returned to the hotel and found inside a drawer was a beautiful kimono that I tried once! Since it was still raining I convinced Mark to take a ride in the mall near the hotel we saw a lot of wonderful shops including one selling kimono, yukata and accessories to make your own, I got help from Mark to choose one Evva with all the accessories! my first kimono. I bought shoes but also hard to find my size all have a 39 foot piccoliiiiii tralartro them and bring them more sockets 'courts seem to go out of fashion so' .... ... Mah. For dinner we have been shopping in supermarket on the ground floor a beautiful department of fish and huge sushiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii fantasticoooooo! Dinner in the room with the supermarket sushi takeaway baguettes and a Japanese fun! For tonight, and 'all tomorrow

(To be continued)

19/06

19/06 Kyoto - Part 2

1 week married!

Hello everyone this morning, we went from the station info, to know the way to see anything, as usual we did a lot of bows. Climbed on the bus behind the train that would take us from Ranked # 207 monuments, most small problem we did not know 'where we finished so' on the bus we asked a very nice bunch of kids who have tried in all ways to help. Eventually we arrived at a temple where he was red hot just celebrated a wedding, he was in a kimono, but she seemed to have a head lamp cover this type have the pc-man here is the same! eheheh. Filmed all over we did a long walk until you reach a beautiful street with the rickshaw, luckily I managed to convince the mark with 3000 yen, 10 min, to try !!!!. Back home a few minutes to settle down and then ran off to the meeting in Kyoto Special Night! A fantastic experience, we left the hotel by taxi to the Gion district = district gheishe for Starad a lot of shops that sell accessories gheisha services, makeup, combs, slippers, wigs, it seems that it is difficult to see a live are always running at dusk!. Arrived we took two steps and immediately in front of a house there gheishe 'catered' onset of a stroke. The beautiful street near the bridge over the river and the houses of wood and bamboo ', just another geisha entertained a client at the restaurant. For the six went to riokan = home authentic Japanese, the tea ceremony. The house 'consists of a small ingressino (you pay taxes based on how much and' roughly) where you leave your shoes, dining room with tables where we waited to be divided into small groups. The house inside and 'big two also have a small interior gardens and other great where there is' the tea room connected by a path of stones. In the room there is access only from an opening similar to opening a dog like the ones in American ports, brought to their knees and lean forward. The room and small, low and dark, lit only by the faint light of a candle that makes everything magical. Noieravamo sitting at the center while the lady in kimono bowing behind us, on the one hand prepares tea with all their magical ritual! We were sitting at the center while the lady in kimono bowing behind us, on the one hand prepares tea with all the magical ritual! Pennellone using some sort of like what people used to shave and blend it all up quickly and build into a froth in a green bowl, in the meantime we need some sweets (made of chestnut), one by one bows before us and hands them, you eat a piece at a time, then served in a tea cup resting on the ground in front of us, with a deep bow. Ritual for drinking tea in front of you, take a bow in his right hand and take the cup, then turn left twice in the clockwise and drink it in three gulps. Something magical!! Finished we returned to the dining room and we were served dinner typical Japanese poor at the time, all proteins, poor fries, tempura, miso soup, rice, tea and tasty. After dinner they gave us gifts: two origami and rice paper lamp shaped like a ball. After leaving we went for a walk in the way of the geisha houses, which are recognized by signs with the names of the stars and the red light in front. Last stage of a theater where they perform shows and geishas, ??we have seen a lot of special events, including a typical dance of two apprentice geisha maiko = fantastic! From there we took a taxi to the hotel and they took two steps' closer. We stopped outside a bar where they had gathered a number of Japanese and we realized there was the game of the World Cup Netherlands - more than Japan 'on we went to see a room of slot machines, all with beautiful cartoon characters, which attending them is more 'casino in a nightclub you do!!

Good night meme

(To be continued)

20/06

20/06 Kyoto - Part 3

Hello everyone this morning we took our legendary bullet train to go to the north of the Golden Pavilion Kyoto precisely a blast! A beautiful golden temple located in the middle of a lake and beautiful gardens with lots of huge fish (I now realize that the board does not do drugs Sampei esistone truly giant carp!) Unfortunately, you and I 'broke the camera right here 'How sad, we hope to be able to adjust in Italy. We made many pictures is there that after in Zen gardens, a disappointment I thought that was really the rake to make patterns and instead .... From the garden we went to the castle Nidojo which of course was closed (closes at around 17) so 'they made us run all the time, especially the very beautiful gardens, beautiful but empty inside there are mobile (as per their tradition). At 17 o'clock we left the castle and to my love, 'came a great idea "shopping" so' we took a taxi which costs nothing in Japan than in Italy, like eating, eat with 9 euros for two! ! No I have not forgotten a digit, we had to bring in the main shopping street and we let loose in a 4 hour shopping spree! Crazy how much I enjoyed it, and Mark, I bought the kimono and geta clogs = purse and he combined the socks and the kimono! Before they leave, I bought a backpack more 'big blue for souvenirs and we had dinner in a room with pictures of cute sushi dishes on the walls and we had dinner here with 10 euros in two! After dinner we took a taxi to the station and the hotel to pack for the trip tomorrow we leave for Hiroshima!

Good night meme

(to be continued)

21/06

21/06 Island Miyashima

Hello everyone Today we moved on a little island in front of Hiroshima and 'soooo particular the fact that we had just arrived the deer wandering the street of the city it seems that there' are revered and are left free to wander 'as we do with our dogs and cats but sin that' these are big and three times as well caghino ehehheeh! The island is reached by a ferry that connects the suburbs of Hiroshima to the island and 'small cars and there are virtually there' a great silence, and the arrival 'of the boys came to get one of the hotel - riokan where we would have stayed with its bus, hotel and 'down the road far enough away from the boat to get there by bus or on foot with only 2 hours and even guess what they' were surrounded by the beautiful deer and squishy! ! Arrived at the hotel we settled in our riokan (typical Japanese), our room and 'empty there' only one table in the center of the room and two back supports, television, floor mats and a typical closet with folded into the two beds as per Japanese tradition. In one drawer we found two Kimono obviously we did not wait two seconds to wear them! After a little 'pictures we went down' below the lobby with our kimonos and geta clogs quickly to try the famous public toilet !!!!! unfortunately I could not take pictures inside but I will make 'a good description for you now understand how it was: So you get two separate entrances for men and women preceded by a curtain, inside there is' a kind of a room Anti-bathroom with a piece of furniture where to put everything but everything is what she's wearing clogs also allow themselves, then there are the sink to remove her makeup for the ladies and from there you enter the bathroom with just a real Baby-towel from wetting once inside, to your left you will find a huge pool boiling alt! where are you going? we'd been thrown there as here in Italy we must first sit on the stool to your right and also from completely washing soap, when you are completely washed then there can be 'no diving dive because' there are other people with you who look at you and want to relax not be disturbed as there is a great silence inside. I was almost an hour then started to turn around his head and went out, returned to our room we found the dinner served in your room romanticaaaaa! Now I put the photo there was everything a small fire to flambe 'for a range of leccarsii mustache! After dinner we took two steps to the island almost deserted except for the deer that we saw them in the dark by the smell of faeces, or from their breath, too beautiful Toor which would be the red door in front of the island within walking distance when there 'low tide. Slept on the futon no typical Japanese mattress resting on the ground to try unique experience!

Good night Meme

22/06

22/06 Miyashima Island - Himeji

This morning got up early, slept ... nothing. American breakfast done because 'the Japanese, and' really bad taste and one that says anything but if I put the pickles or the fish head before I can not eheheh, after breakfast, a lovely open-ready to relax and then for another step in the Himeji castle is to be beautiful! Arrived luckily we met a Japanese guide who spoke perfect English which has followed us throughout the tour, on tour we found that in this castle and 'The Last Samurai was filmed with Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe wonderful actor.

'- Tell me how he died?
- I will tell you how he lived. "
"- You think a man can change his destiny?
- I think that a man does what he can until his destiny is revealed. "

Inside there are some fantastic gardens and the castle and 'really big, you'd never know from the outside, coming back we attended the celebration that was all over the country and all it stands dressed in kimono celebrating beautiful colors, I also tasted a dish of meatballs instead of octopus in batter with a lot of good special sauce on top! At the back we had several problems for the wrong time the train arrived at night and them other problems with the flight of the day that we could not get an error because of the agency.
Hello everyone tomorrow

23/06

23/06 Miyashima Island - Okinawa

Hello everyone!

well our trip is coming to an end, unfortunately, like all good things today and it 'a day to travel from the island of Okinawa island Mijashima where we should find a crystal clear sea, wake up early this morning after a nice breakfast we made for 'last time a public bathroom with a Japanese lady looking at me very badly lol ... to prepare for the long journey that awaited us. From the hotel with bus - boat - train to Hiroshima - Osaka - Osaka airport in total. More than 5 hours' air travel 2! I got off the plane and arrived in town 'we were a little' upset, has nothing to do with Japan and the Japanese seemed to be back in the West (how nice but 'coming into our huge hotel, with a normal bed, standard room tomorrow we'll see the beaches then back to Tokyo and at home ... ..

25/06

23/06 Miyashima Island - Okinawa

Hello everyone!

well our trip is coming to an end, unfortunately, like all good things today and it 'a day to travel from the island of Okinawa island Mijashima where we should find a crystal clear sea, wake up early this morning after a nice breakfast we made for 'last time a public bathroom with a Japanese lady looking at me very badly lol ... to prepare for the long journey that awaited us. From the hotel with bus - boat - train to Hiroshima - Osaka - Osaka airport in total. More than 5 hours' air travel 2! I got off the plane and arrived in town 'we were a little' upset, has nothing to do with Japan and the Japanese seemed to be back in the West (how nice but 'coming into our huge hotel, with a normal bed, standard room tomorrow we'll see the beaches then back to Tokyo and at home ... ..