Marketing Competition Part 2: In Kyoto

 

After long preparation for the marketing competition,

(read previous post)

we left Tokyo and took a train and bus ride to Kyoto/Kobe/Osaka, a region called "Kansai". 

 

This is the toilet we used in the bus.

 

We arrived to Kyoto Station at 6am in the morning. 

We planned to tour around Kyoto before we head to my grandma's place.

 

Our breakfast.  

 

Kyoto started to light up at 7am.

 

This is how Kyoto Tower looks, first thing in the morning. 

Marketing Competition Part 1: Preparing in Tokyo

 

 This is a heart light up on tokyo tower and I ended up seeing this almost everyday because I was always at school very late for the past few days before this marketing competition.

The days consisted of sleepless nights and lots of food outside.

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To start off we have Origin Bentou.

It's a bentou shop that sells bunch of homemade looking/tasting food.

It's very cheap $4-$10. And they have lots of variations. 

 

This is the food samples we can pick from.

 

This is the self-serve food corner. 

BUSY BUSY BUSY

First of all I will like to apologize for my late late posts.

1st excuse: I had a business contest I had to participate.

2nd excuse: It was christmas

3rd excuse: My zemi had lots of events


4th excuse: I was addicted to tv and got very lazy.

Lunar Eclipse

 

I am not sure if they had lunar eclipse in Canada but a week and a half ago people in Japan got to see lunar eclipse. So few of my zemi senpai (older ppl) and zemi ppl went out at 10pm to Tama river station to take some pictures of the eclipse.

Above is probably the only decent picture I took for the whole night as I didn't have a tripod to support my camera. I am seriously considering to get one in Japan though because I cant take any non blurry pictures at night with out a tripod.

 

This is a nice picture my senpai took. 

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Hiyoshi Neighbourhood 2: Hiyoshi Park

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Last time I tried to go up this little mountain/hill in Hiyoshi but I failed to do so.

So this time i tried going up from behind the hill.

I also has a tangerine in my hand, so I can eat it when I am up on the top of the hill.

 

I first ran in to Yagami river. I didn't know that it was so close to where I live.

 

Some fruits.

 

And then I finally found these stairs!!!

Zemi Fun: Presentations

 

The zemi I am in is always pretty active. 

While some people are presenting in Osaka, our teacher is in the States joining a conference.

And this time was one of the 3rd year groups presenting their research in front of other zemis in Keio.

I honestly have to say our groups presentation was the best.

Each zemi has its level of intensity. Some zemi is more strict than others.

And I think I chose one of the more hard working zemi in Keio.

Don't mistaken me though. It's really good.

While my time here is limited I am happy to join a zemi that stimulates me.

 

View from the room. This is Hiyoshi, where I live.

If some of you guys remember from my previous post. 

I am part of a marketing team within the zemi and we are presenting this sat in Kobe.

Kobe is pretty far (10 hour bus ride) 

so I am super exited to go have fun both presenting and touring around. 

And our zemi isn't some bunch of nerds that work all the time. 

We also have fun too.

 Drinking yay- 

Eating yay-

Karaoking yay-

Me playing volleyball in Japan.

 

One day I was coming back from school and my friend tweeted that she was going to go join the volleyball practice a Keio circle was hosting.

I asked if I can join and they kindly accepted me to their practice.

But as some of my friends know I am not so good at playing sports.

And I am the worst when it comes to volleyball Haha.

  

This is the gym we got to use. It was approx 20 min away from my station. 

My dad came to tokyo

 

My dad has come to Tokyo for work and we met up!

He came all the way where I live to see what kind of environment I live in.

He gave me few canadian goods, ate lunch, walked quite a bit and left. 

It was a short time but it was fun to see my family member.

 

First Tully's. Never bought it because I'm not a coffee person (my dad is).

 

After walking around hiyoshi for a bit we went to Oote machi station to walk to Tokyo Station to eat lunch with our family friend. 

Chinatown and Kaibutsukun

 

I went to CHINATOWN! in Yokohama.

The reason why I went there is because I had a crazy craving for 飲茶Dim Sum and 

I had had had to go.

So I took some friends and walked around and ate some amazing food.

 

Ebina : Somewhere far away from tokyo

 

I decided to visit my friend one day that lives very far away from tokyo.

It took longer than l thought but I enjoyed riding on the train by myself and walking around places where there are no tall buildings and young girls and boys :)

Of corse I mostly enjoyed seeing my friend!

btw the picture above: I had same colour skirt as the seat lol

First: Below is the youtube video to Ebina station that I filmed

It's just Shibuya

 

Shibuya has now become my backyard.

Just kidding!

But it is the place I visit the most.

I always forget to bring my DSLR when I go to shibuya though but I remembered this time!

Take a look of how the heart of Japan looks like 

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  First picture is...

not even shibuya lol haha well its on the way to shibuya.

Actual ad created by cloth.

 

The whole train was GAPPED.

 

We are now in shibuya.

Sweets Paradise

 

Sweet Paradise

http://www.sweets-paradise.jp/

This is all you can eat dessert and food in Shibuya

(They also have places in Harajuku as well, which i blogged briefly about before)

I ate wayy to much and I had to take off my belt at the end haha.

The price is $18. 

The food is normal. It's not amazing but I can live with it :p

 

Christmas decoration!  

Ikea with a Swede

 

My first ikea experience in Japan was with a good friend of mine.

She was a swede and made my journey to there and the time at Ikea a lot of fun!

 

So we first took a free shuttle bus starting from Den-en Choufu.

And because we got to this stop like half past 6, noone was in line.

The bus was pretty empty as well.

And they had mini seats like this in between the big seats. (We opened it for no particular reason)

Fun Marketing by Dominos

 

So Japanese domino's has started a "Coupon Festival"

and how this thing works is when a "characteristic" fits you, you can get 25% off on ur pizza.

But a lot of these are ridiculous characteristics that you either don't have or the last characteristic "Kindness"is one of the criteria that anyone can possibly have .

People will have to Tweet or post on their facebook to receive the coupon.

I thought the criteria suggested by the company were fun and playful which makes you chuckle when u read them. The design also fits with the concept. 

Very Japanese and a cute play on the American Comic style.

Check their website!

 Below are the criteria:

 

25% off if u wear glasses

Retro place "Motosumiyoshi"/ Fish Food On Parade

 

Some of my zemi friends and I went to Motosumiyoshi station 

last week to go eat at a restaurant that only serves fish.

Let me explain to you about Motosumiyoshi.

Actually I know nothing about this place but what I noticed is that a lot of the stores look very retro.

What I mean by retro is I can feel that most of these stores are made in late 1970s to 1980s.

The signs and designs really makes you feel like ure back in the days 

(although I was never born then).

 

I've also noticed a lot of the stores in Japan like to name their store something foreignsounding.

Like Leona.

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After few minutes of walking we found our restaurant of the night.

It's called "Fish's Kitchen". Kind of cruel but haha great. Click here for the restaurant info 

You can see bunch of sign that tells us what they sell. 

I bet no one ever reads this.

Aerosmith concert was just AMAZING

 

First concert in Tokyo.

First time in Tokyo Dome.

First time seeing Aerosmith.

Some of my friends might wonder why Aerosmith?

Well my friend of friend of mine (who is now my friend) has generously decided to give me this ticket as a gift as she couldn't go. Who would say no to a legendary rock star concert?

Especially when you have amazing seats?

 

So this is the ticket I received.

And I got to go to the concert yesterday. 

30 dollar agenda and LOFT

 

It's shopping time now!

And when christmas is approaching it means that it's almost end of the year.

Which means I will have to go buy a schedule book for next year.

I am a "plan" freak and I really like having things organized and planned 

and I really need a good planner to have a good year.

This year I was using muji planner but found out that the schedule book itself was too big and 

the space for each day was just too little.

So I decided to go to LOFT which is a store that has

really "anything" you can think of.

  

This is the picture of the store. And this section only sells schedule book.

 

I did quite a bit of research before I came here but when I stepped into the store again I was confused to which one I should use. 

Food Food Foood #3

Welcome to my Food Blog!

Just kidding. Well I've noticed I usually only take pictures of food when I go out now.

Someone even asked me if I've taken a picture of every single food I ate in Japan.

No, obviously not. Well... actually maybe all the food I ate outside. Just maybe.

Below is some of the fatty fatty things this country offers that I ate in the past few weeks. Enjoy!

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Tsukemen.

つけ麺. Tsuke means "dip" and Men means "noodles"

So how u eat it is like u dip ur noodles into the soup.

The soup broth is usually fish. Very tasty! But it cools down too fast (I think)

 

Noodles

  

Thick Soup.

 

Dip dip eat! $8

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Conbini (Convenience Store) sweets.

Japanese desserts in these conbini is justt excellent!

It's usually very high quality and very affordable. I am totally addicted.

 

A man's sweets is the title of this dessert.

This is a cream puff with chocolate crusting with more melting chocolate on top of it.

VERRY GOOD. 

but I had cream all over my face because this thing exploded when I took a bite into it. Boo-

 

Yuummers  It was like $3.