Highschool trip


In front of the Hirakata station.


The TV showed this warning after watching it at night.




The teacher


Canadian exchange student

Keitai





Nagashima




The weird mountain and the view from it.






We went with my host mom's family.


Huge black koi.


Some kid in the Dahlias

Den Den Town




We were happy to find Haado Gei just outside the subway station.


DDR duet.




Fugu everywhere.




A claw machine offering live giant shrimp (prawns?). They looked like lobsters.

Arashi-yama


Quite a few rickshaws askinge everyone to get out of their way.


Me and Ling-ling.


Everyone snapping photos of the water, boats, mountainsides. See?








Fun pulling leaves, pressing them.




View into the river valley, across to another lookoutspot.


Lastly, we walked through some bamboo forest. Lots of bamboo.

Koimizu-dera


Shoulder to shoulder for more than half an hour waiting to get into the temple. Lots of people snapping photos. Stood on the edges with Ryoo (?) and some highschool boys, as not to get mashed in the crowd. No point moving up really, as the gates weren't yet open (which is why we were all cramming up).




View before entering.


Kyoto tower in the distance.


Temple over there.






Everything had lights on it.


Our sensei and his girlfriend.