Thursday, May 08, 2008

Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima

Here are more recent pictures for the last few days...

We wanted to stay in Hiroshima but unfortunately everything was booked up there. As were hotels in 3 other towns we tried after.... We kept getting on and off the train looking for hotels until we decided to just forget about sleeping and just go into Osaka and have a night out.



Club Triangle - it was Electro night. The crowd was a lot of fun (we met a few people while we were there and made some 'friends' for the evening). The mixing was horrendous though. I think there was a problem with their setup - I think I only heard one successful mix the entire night aside from the main performance which was live.








The next day we got on the train went back to Fukuoka for a nap and then went to Hiroshima






And we had sushi for dinner


Kyoto




Just stumbled upon this on our walk back to the train station


Our last night in Osaka
This is something we keep seeing everywhere. People gathered around office buildings or some landmark dancing. Most have headphones in and are practicing their routines. Some have stereos out and are dancing along... It's kind of cool. The girl in this picture was pretty good (unlike the picture)


Ryan got his castle





We're heading off to Tokyo tomorrow. We're hoping to make it into Womb for Ritchie Hawtin on Saturday night (I vaguely remember seeing him in Toronto at System Soundbar).

I really liked Osaka. It has some pretty cool night life (we went out a couple of nights and both of them ended up being pretty fun). I like the way Kyoto looks but there are a lot of tourists going around trying to see every temple and shrine. I'm looking forward to being in a place with fewer sight-seeing tourists. I think I'm finally temple and shrined out.

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