“Harajuku Girls you got the wicked style. I like the way that you are, I am your biggest fan.” sings Gwen Stefani in the song conveniently titled “Harajuku Girls”. It’s about the Cosplay-zoku, or costume play gang, which are teenage girls who assemble each weekend at Harajuku’s Jingu-bashi bridge in Tokyo dressed as goths, kimono […]
After another day of temple-watching in Kyoto we made a day trip to Nara last Monday. More tempels, but a few special ones: Todai-ji , the largest wooden building in the world, and the Kasuga Taisha shrine, surrounded by paths with hundreds of stone lanterns. Beautiful! The sleepy mountain town of Takayama was the next […]
Do you remember the song ‘Big in Japan’ by eighties band Alphaville? Listen to it on Youtube if you don’t… now that I’ve mentioned it, you will not be able to get the stupid song out of your head. I know I’m not!): Although Osaka is a convenient port of entry to Japan, it is […]
