| Ting Ting City |
| The Gender-Unspecific Table of Doom |
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| A guided tour of AizuTakada-machi, Inaka Extroadinaire, and near-by Locales. All photos are MINE. They were taken with the aid of my lovely little phone. Steal my pictures and you shall be CURSED!! |
| (above) The aftermath of three people eating a bowl of spicey ramen at some ungodly hour after inbibing too much booze. Fukushima-City. |
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| Imagine for a moment you are in a Japanese town. A very very small town. There is a street. A very very empty street. There is a 7-11. And there is a shrine. A car shrine. The only one of its kind in Japan. In this shrine you can have your car blessed, forever ensuring you never get mangled in your blessed car. This, my friends, is Takada. This, is where I live. And this, I fear, is a place from which one can NEVER ESCAPE..... |
| (right) Look! It's the car shrine at night! |
| (above) It was Halloween. We were in my apartment. There was wine. It was dark. There was a pumkin. And this is what happened... |
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| (above) AizuTakada-machi in December (to be specific, on the 22nd at 7:51am). Taken as I walked the 40 minutes to school. It's actually a river you see before you. |
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| TOWN |
| FESTIVALS |
| THE LAND BEYOND... Even a piddly little town like Wakamatsu looks like a metropolis once you've lived in Takada for 11 months... |
| SCHOOL |
| (left) Takada's biggest festival of the year. It's January. It's snowing hard. And so, it is only logical that blokes should remove their clothes and compete in a tug of war. All in order to predict the rice harvest, apparently. |
| (above) Hina Matsuri Doll at a village Elementary School. The Hina Matsuri is a day for young girls. |
| (right) Green Tea in my mug at Nichu. This neautiful beverage, which I am quite obsessed with, sits happily on my desk just waiting to be drunk. |
| (left) Kendo competition, Sports Day at Nichu (Takada Second Junior High School). |
| (left) Aizu Wakamatsu castle on the day of the Aizu Festival. |
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| (above) Byakkotai cartoon-style from a map at Tsurugajo. |
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| (left) AizuTakada train station. Going from Nowhere to Absolutly Nowhere. |
| (left) Aizu Matsuri paraders at the castle. |
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| (right) Isasumijinja (aka. the car shrine) in the daytime. |