#Nagoya travel

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[hirami]

🍲 Japan Blog Part 2 🌇

Enter the Shinkansen southbound: Off to Nagoya and it's huge amusement park and sparkling winter illuminations!

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Navigating Nagoya: Must-see sights in and around Japan's historic city

Nagoya, Japan’s fourth-largest city, often remains overshadowed by the glamour of Tokyo, the cultural richness of Kyoto, and the hustle and bustle of Osaka. Yet, Nagoya is definitely a hidden gem, a vibrant city waiting to be explored. Here, history mingles seamlessly with modernity, offering a unique travel experience which I discovered when I joined the international trip qualifiers of Sun…

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Nagoya, Gamagori and Toyokawa - that's it for Nagoya. Almost time to go.

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Japanese trucks 😅

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Nagoya, Japan

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Getting tickets to the Ghibli Park was almost impossible (they release a month's worth of tickets online at like 2 a.m. here and sell out within minutes, a terrible system) so I'm really glad we got to go!

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04.29.2024 | nagoya, japan 🌃

had my first espresso martini in japan~

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Nagoya — Day 5 (and 6)

I wanted to wait until I have enough time to speak about our time in Nagoya, as this was a brief, but for me a very special stop.

About 2.5 years ago I met two very fantastic Japanese women over HelloTalk, an app to meet people as language exchange partners. One of these women currently lives in Germany with her husband but will return to Japan next year. The other one lives in Nagoya and we met the first time when I was in Japan in March last year. She came to Kyoto to spend the day with us, and this time she invited me and my cousin to stay one night at her home with her and her family. I felt so very honoured we were allowed to visit her and she really put so much thought into this!

Together with her I also met another Japanese friend I got to know because of said friend from Nagoya. She’s an English teacher and brought one of her English classes with my Japanese class together so we come together once a month in a Zoom meeting and have a cultural exchange.

So, those two very kind women picked us up at the subway station, we dropped our stuff at her home, met her husband, and then made our way to Nagoya Castle as we wished to make some sightseeing together. On our way we stopped at a udon restaurant and had lunch together.

Nagoya Castle is very beautiful and it was such a big inspiration for me for my upcoming writing I want to explore further later on. I was so grateful to experience this together with Japanese people.

In the evening they all prepared several dishes for us and we sat together, chatting and eating, very Japanese like at a narrow table. If you have ever wondered how Japanese people can sit so long kneeling down like me—they can’t. 🤣 My friend told me that occasions like a funeral where you actually have to sit in one place on your knees for so long are horrible. Your legs will go numb and they also have problems to get up then. Somehow this really was a relief for me. 😄

As my cousin’s birthday was coming up about a week later but we wouldn’t see each other then, we celebrated her birthday together beforehand. My friend was so kind to order one of those birthday cakes and it was so good! And then they even had presents for both of us. Japanese people use name stamps to sign, at work, when they receive packages, for everything. So they gave us stamps with our names, written in katakana and I was overwhelmed they actually had them made for us! 🥺

And they even rented futon for us to sleep on. This was a new experience for me (I already thought we would have those in Hakone, but we didn’t), and I have to say, this is something I have to get used to. 😅 I have some back problems, so literally sleeping on the floor can be hard.

Anyway, for breakfast my friend prepared onigiri (rice balls) and then gave us a short introduction on of what was coming up as we had a calligraphy lesson with her daughter. And this really wasn’t easy at all! We wrote a very easy kanji, 木. This means tree. But when writing it in calligraphy, it’s not easy at all. 😂 I learned about myself that I’m a very impatient person. You really have to take your time in writing those signs, fully concentrated, and kind of have to relax. And then here I am, always full of thoughts, hasty, and way too much of a perfectionist. But it showed me that I really have to calm down, and it also was a lot of fun. We were also allowed to write our names in katakana. That was also not that easy.

Then it was already time for us to leave. I’m so grateful for that one day I could spend with my friend and I really hope to meet her again!

Now for my inspiration for the upcoming chapters of “Embrace of Brightness”, as well and especially for “Eclipse”.

Next to Nagoya Castle was the rebuilding of a residence to show how the Shogun lived when he visited Nagoya. We were allowed to take pictures there and damn, that was a lot of gold to show off. 😄

(In Kyoto we visited Nijo Castle. It also had those golden rooms, but as most of those were still originals, we were not allowed to take pictures there.)

It really gives me an idea on how the Shogun lived in Japan. I later learned more about this, but this I will explore when I speak about Kyoto. There were several private rooms and rooms for official occasion where he held audiences. And especially this I wanted to point out.

This was the place the Shogun was seated at those audiences. He was placed higher than all the other court members. Do you see this dome shaped ceiling? He was sitting under it to emphasize his status. And now imagine Ryuu sitting exactly there. I really love the idea of it!

I will definitely have a lot of images now I can use for my descriptions. Thank you to my friend for taking me to this place!

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The Buddha of Hotei known as "Sunglasses Buddha" near Nagoya

"Many come here when they are sick, for healing, or to find a path in their lives."

Join the YouTuber as he travel along Meitetsu Inuyama Line in Konan City in search of the iconic Buddha that went viral on social media, as he discovers the history behind it's construction.

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The Komaki Airport, Nagoya Postcard

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Blue hour

Nagoya, JP

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Last night I dreamed I got held up at airport security in Nagoya for like 3 hours because my backpack was full of 1) raw meat, 2) Poke Balls containing Pokemon specifically banned from boarding airplanes including Onix and Electrode, and 3) kratom.

Also, I was Ranni the Witch, and, as such, my ID was obviously fake, but they never actually noticed that.

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i got a picture of the bb mochi display in the ikebukuro animate!!!!!!