一年間日本! Yue in Japan: Kiyoharu unplugged & Tsukuba-san

Halluuuuuh

It's been 10 days again, as I only post when enough worth it happens ^^

Hard to believe that I am here for a month already o.o

On weekdays this week, nothing special happend here, except of delicious food with in nice company in between xD

The food-highligt this week happend on Tuesday with Kristin and Ana.
First of all, the restaurant looked very cute, as you had the oppotrtunity to sit on the floor there :D

And this was my food: Katsudon. I have never tried it until now, because of the pork. Don't like it that much, normally. But this menue just looked too god to obey - and it was fucking delicious. Surprising, surprising, but this will be on my list more often now <3

Oh, and.. remember the cats from my last entry? Well, I do not know why, but since this week I have one of them sitting in front of my window nearly every morning ;___; Poor thing.

But enough everyday stuff - Now to the main point I wanted to write about:
One thing is my first concert experience in Japan: Kiyoharu unplugged.
As you are not allowed to take photos of concerts in Japan, this is the only one I can offer xD

So.. to begin with, you probably HAVE to buy a drink when going at a concert in Japan, in this case it was around 500yen. Probably just an opportiúnity for the venue to make more profit.. but well.

! People who are not interested in the concert should just scroll down to the next topic, as the following got quite long :"D

For the entrance procedure, there is a randomly chosen number printed on your card - so no need to spent hours of waiting in front of the venue to get to the front. Which makes the whole procedure actually very nice and relaxing. I have NEVER experienced such a peaceful entrance procedure as here. Germany, take an example.

As this was an unplugged concert, there were mainly seats - I was in the standing room, which was pretty awesome though. There were 10 rows of seats - cinema-like seats with mounts for your drink and stuff, and right behind these was the standing room - And as I was one of the first persons left in, my sight was pretty free and awesome.

Regarding the concert itself - It was beautiful. THAT ELEGANCE.

It was only Kiyoharu singing, having two people playing Guitars behind him. The setting was pretty .. relaxed, too, as he stood on a grandma-like livingroom-carpet, having a chair on it, a small table with drinks and cigarettes and a vintage-looking lamp. He liked that lamp obviously, as he liked to swich it on and off, and tried to used it for effects and stuff. So all in all, his surrounding looked like a small vintage-livingroom, which fitted the acoustic-stuff.

(I do not know when he got rid of his shoes to perform barefoot, but well....)

The whole thing started with Kiyoharu sitting in the dark and smoking a cigarette while singing - Which looked really nice, together with the light conditions and the smoke-stuff. I nearly got goose bumps when he started singing. Which surprised me, because I did not expect that at this concert - but after all I seem to get very sensitive when musice is able to touch me.

Although his micro was.. a BIT too loud. But here and there in between I saw a good reason, why: He used his surrounding to create some other sounds besides the guitars - Like, stamping on the footrest of his chair, or knocking with his ring on the metal plate on his necklace and stuff. Nice, simple effects.

(Btw, he just overdid it with smoking. Like, smoking nearly the whole time I really did not feel sorry for his voice being rough when he talked :"D )

Songs chosen were pretty nice, as he even made up acoustic versions of older songs as 'Hikari' .. which stayed in my mind the strongest, because this version was really touching.

The fans all in all were very quiet during the concert xD And very cute. When Kiyoharu talked in between, there was absolute silence - except of "heeeh?" and "aaah~" - murmurs in between. In choir.. pretty funny.

And at the end of the it- After surprisingly long 2 hours - the encore-screams were very.. reserved and quiet, too. Not sure if it was the unplugged-setting, or Japanese concert-behaviour in general. I'll find out at the next one.

((((which will be Mucc ft. Lynch.. ahaha)))

After the concert, I got something to eat and strolled around Shibuya, before getting one of the last trains home. Which was full.

Ur already tired of reading? No? Good! :D

Because I have something more to tell - The excoursion to Mt. Tsukuba.

Maybe I should just split the entrys in two to prevent them from getting too long..?

Anyways, with the Baumkuchen-Meeting (That German-Japanese-thingy), we planned to climb Mt. Tsukuba on Sunday. Actually, this was the first time for me climbing a mountain, so I did not really know what to expect.

We had some nice Japanese people from university with us who knew how to get around, and took the bus from Tsukuba station, a 30 minutes ride. You could already see the mountain out of the window.

The entrance - pay attention to the frog sitting on the phonebooth.

Actually, there have been frogs everywhere xD
Someone told us, that the frogs there eject a liquid out of their ears when scared, and that the inhabitants are producing medicine out of that. I am not sure wether to believe that or not.

Oh, and while we have waited for another person to come, there was this seller for soft-ice, who had thousands of variations. Normal ones, but also some interesting, unusual ones. I chose the to me most weird taste - sweet potatoe - and.. it was actually very delicious /D

Finally we started to go, but before the climbing actually started, we passed a tiny, but beautiful shrine area <3

... with a cow at the entrance. Touch her and you'll be lucky!

Sneaky picture of my future children!!! SO CUTE ;wwwwwwwwwwww;

After that, the real thing begun.
I did not take that many pictures, as while climbing up I was too busy with not dying.
Although, as I was at the front in the fast group, we were able to take some nice breaks while waiting for the others here and there.. so thank you hahaha :3

And there were some nice places in between, like this one.
Keeping the evil out!

U see the smaller stones going up right in the middle of the door? The stuff looking like a wall?
Was not a wall, this was of part our path.
The way up was quite tough in between, at the moment I'm having a really hard muscle ache in my legs.

But when we made it to the top, we got rewarded with a fucking nice view. Ahwmygod. Here a few impressions, althoug the pictures are disappointing in comparison to what we have seen.

I was so .. proud and happy to be up there <3

Trying to find a cool pose in order to show that I felt like the tallest person in the world.
Didn't work.

Chilling on the top of the mountain ~~ :D

After staying there for a while, we got back to the others and had lunch altogether.
But I really did not want to go.
The view was just too amazing, and most important, you felt kind of.. free.

But well - when it came to the way down, there was a decision to make between climbing down, or taking the ropeway.
As I was the opinion that taking the ropeway would cut the whole efford down to the half, I was in the walking group - who manages to climb up, has to climb down, too!
However, the way down was harder than I thought. The way up I was one of the quickest, and the now the last person - Simply because I was scared to fall, because I can be so fucking clumsy xD
This is a part of how most of the way down was like. U see what I mean, right.