Sunday, 23 April 2006
Nothing much exciting has been happening this week. Just been working and getting to know all my kids at school.
Buster arrived for a short visit on Friday and caught the bus up to Takasaki from Narita airport late on Friday night. Next week is the Golden Week holiday so we are planning to visit Nikko and Tokyo and a few other places close to Takasaki.
On Sunday we went up to Kannonyama which is on a hill overlooking Takasaki. It's a huge big statue and you can climb up the inside to it's shoulders.
The huge statue at Kannonyama.
There's also a shrine and a temple right next to the statue where you can light insense and leave prayers.
Suse washing her hands at the temple.
Buster being a tourist (idiot).
We also visited a traditional dye factory where they make the dyes from different types of plants (which was kinda cool - some of the colours are incredible). To get to the dye factory we had to walk for miles and then cross a suspension bridge which was odd because it feels like you are in the middle of nowhere, not just 10 minutes out of central Takasaki.
Buster and Sensei Suse about to risk life and limb by crossing the suspension bridge.
Mark ("Buster") and Sensei Suse with the last of the cherry blossums at Kannonyama.
Buster arrived for a short visit on Friday and caught the bus up to Takasaki from Narita airport late on Friday night. Next week is the Golden Week holiday so we are planning to visit Nikko and Tokyo and a few other places close to Takasaki.
On Sunday we went up to Kannonyama which is on a hill overlooking Takasaki. It's a huge big statue and you can climb up the inside to it's shoulders.
The huge statue at Kannonyama.
There's also a shrine and a temple right next to the statue where you can light insense and leave prayers.
Suse washing her hands at the temple.
Buster being a tourist (idiot).
We also visited a traditional dye factory where they make the dyes from different types of plants (which was kinda cool - some of the colours are incredible). To get to the dye factory we had to walk for miles and then cross a suspension bridge which was odd because it feels like you are in the middle of nowhere, not just 10 minutes out of central Takasaki.
Buster and Sensei Suse about to risk life and limb by crossing the suspension bridge.
Mark ("Buster") and Sensei Suse with the last of the cherry blossums at Kannonyama.
posted by Laziest Girl at 10:56 am
4 Comments:
Hi Suse
Just had fun reading all of your comments and catching up with the Japanese you. The place looks beautiful and I like your apartment, apart from that ladder - not sure how well I would handle that! Glad to see you settling in and seeing something of the place. Sounds like a good group of people. Keep up the good work - enjoying it all that is.
holy crap! I have a lot to catch up on! Yay!
It's only been a month and I miss you already. How the f*ck am I going to cope for the rest of the year?
Anyway the photos are fantastic.
You still look deliriously happy(I'm so jealous).
There's some more pics of Kannonyama by other random people on flickr here and here.
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