October 19: Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku, Akasaka, Ginza, Saitama
(Today 69 photos ...)
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) Last day, total depression, vague to the city \u200b\u200bas a zombie, thinking that "this time" is about to end. One of the many corridors of the metro after a month I seem so normal. It 's funny how time can eliminate the word "amazing" even from Japan. Sometimes I think that if we lived in Japan, maybe I could not do a blog so sick like this, because in the long run it all seemed so "normal." But I'm coming, so get ready for the usual menate Mappin, railroads, model train and "amazing things".
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) We go out to "see the stars" in Aoyama, a dreary autumn day, the usual traffic and the usual salaryman and OL (Office Ladies) who go around at lunch with their badges in plain view. Today we do not have a definite destination, to be honest ...
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) Here, as anywhere else in Japan is cool to give Italian names to shops and activities, this is the sign of a hair salon (also male ... so it's very weird ...)
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) A pile of garbage in the street? In Tokyo? Yes, just before the passage of eco-compactor (TG1 docet) comes a guy who puts the garbage collection in heaps on the pavement the night before in the road to allow faster collection ...
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) Lunch at local restaurant in Okinawa, where we ate a typical Okinawan soba (this has a fat pig meat) ...
... and this has grassissima pork meat ... great with the face of the surimi Shiisa, the lion mascot of Okinawa!
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) After lunch we walked a few meters to reach Omotesando here is one of the coolest Japanese I've ever seen! : D
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) There, and here are a constant, the luxury cars, like this beautiful Nissan R-34 .. .
We were going to the famous Kiddy-Land in Omotesando, but we found that was moved temporanetamente Cat Street, a small apartment in the beautiful viuzzola that extends south of the avenue ...
It's full of great shops ...
And there is also the temporary home of Kiddy-Land, where we bought the impossible!
Here also the word "stop" on the ground has a sophisticated look, the legendary ...
I love the peaceful atmosphere of this small apartment, especially if I think a few meters away is the teen-carnage Harajuku ...
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) A detour a Ginza al calar del sole, dove sotto l'orologio ci attendeva la mia sorellona Kazu-Zen , per l'ennesimo arrivederci. Grazie sorellona per gli splendidi momenti passati assieme, e soprattutto per avermi sopportato al museo della metro!! Ti voglio bene!!
Cena a Saitama in questo ristorante incredibile con la famiglia di Shiho...
Cibi incredibili, come questa gustosissima insalata che ha un tocco veramente di classe: l'uovo in camicia al centro...
Il solito immancabile Sashimi for me and David ...
meat cut beyond belief ...
And so home to pack. I could not resist not to photograph the landscapes that have accompanied me for a month, as the view from the palace where he lives Shiho ...
From there, every night coming home I could see, extending the eye could see below me the immense grasslands of the northern outskirts of urban Tokyo ...
I will miss Yakuza's who on Saturday night (only on Saturday night) were just below the skids, I will be awakened by the physical education teacher of the school below with the megaphone shouting orders to the students enslaved to forty degrees in the shade, I will miss trains, long, night-lit across the landscape as the geometric essences. I will miss the serenity of being in a place that I love, surrounded by people who adores me and shows me love by the ton. The problem is that I only ever notice it when I get back here at home.
We took the cakes to pastries of the ANA Intercontinental, in Akasaka, Minato-ku. Shiho's father to like sweets, and if it is deserved them every day back home went to the supermarket to buy a bottle of CC Lemon, for me, and I left with a suitcase full of his gifts ...
And here's the dessert that I chose, another constant of this journey: the cheese cake. Thanks for everything. Tomorrow we go. Good night.
I had an idea, one day ask a few artists, photographers, designers, poets etc.. to make a header for my blog, created their art with each artist its creator and inspired the blog itself or the entity in question, Japan.
OniBaka (with two capitals), aka Davide De Rose Veltri: illustrator, sculptor, painter, aspiring cartoonist and especially big fan of Japan.
That strange man who is preparing to hit me with a rolling pin as I try to convince Shiho for the millionth time to eat sushi is one of his characters, the "demon of the kitchen, directly from the cartoon" Chili Blues "produced by him. Hot Pepper Blues is a story that brings together various topics, all approached in ironic and zany, such as the kitchen and the fighting. The story tells of a small Italian restaurant in Tokyo, just Pepper the Blues and his wacky chef, Gualtiero little mess (everyone calls Gugu Chan for obvious problems to pronounce his name) and his climb to the heights of food critics in the megalopolis of Japan, as well as the rivalry with a famous and grim cook Japanese cuisine that is fighting for the title of best chef in Tokyo.
You can read this and millions of his other projects on his blog ( www.onibaka -com) and the group of cartoonists blog to which it belongs, Manga factor.
October 18: Shinjuku, Fuji-Yoshida (Yamanashi), Shinjuku-
continue the travel diaries of nicolaingiappone 2010 trip ... although this is also a travelogue post a "bonus" for more detailed content ...
(Today 45 photos ...)
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) E 'morning, we are in front of Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku, I have a sleep hallucinating and hallucinating a stomach ache, and it is not because I ate bad yesterday ...
... but why today faces the devil himself. The roller coaster, my ancestral fear since I was small, but today I have made up his mind to win it, this fear, addressing them in a more direct way: by going to the amusement park Fuji-Q Highland, Fuji-Yoshida, in the prefecture of Yamanashi. Let's just from the small bus station in Shinjuku this bus designer with the appearance of the devil, the terrifying roller-coaster "Eejanaika", my heart beats a thousand and stomach cramps are hallucinating ...
Once there, the first vision is this monster, is "only " one of the tallest and fastest roller coaster at world, Fujiyama ...
But Let's go to hell: P
The free-pass requires a card with your photo, then down into the cabin to take some passport photos horrible ...
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) What they are almost so, do not see much, do not you see anybody but you take the piss (in the photo is written " oh, what a nice )
We decided to warm up with this "little" roller coaster, yes and no higher than a three-storey building, is called "Mad Mouse" ...
( Video by Kengkards ) Here's a video explaining ...
We decide to immediately tackle the monster, the Eejanaika: the entrance is not the most reassuring ...
But the row is enough long to shut down every good intention and will raise the voltage to the stars ...
Almost two hours in a row, unbelievable ...
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) And the landscape around us is not the most reassuring, trains loaded with give way over our heads ...
This sign informs us that this roller coaster called "fourth-dimension" is entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the roller coaster with the highest number of reversals in the world, exactly 14 times upside down along the course of 1153 meters. I'll add that is the roller coaster of this type the highest and fastest and longest in the world : maximum height 76 meters, max speed 126 km / hour, the first drop has a maximum gradient of 90 degrees, a trip takes about one minute from the end of the climb and has a capacity of 1000 passengers per hour ...
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) It 's a real spaceship, as you tie up a fighter plane and if they make you remove your shoes as well ...
Here I am in agony: I was in the front row and have not had the courage to open eyes throughout the first part of praying that the nightmare would end as soon as possible ...
David instead screaming like a madman ...
( Video by Devin Crawford ) is not a video shot by me but by a rash that I do not know how managed to hold a device to resume. I do not know how he did it because prior to departure you check very carefully ...
We finished the race and I found myself screaming, screaming with joy for two main reasons:
1) I was still alive and in one piece. 2) E 'was one of the most intense and unique experiences of my life, and I feel really proud of myself for having the courage to do so. First demon defeated!
Look at the size of individuals with regard to the immensity of the track, things really amazing!
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) But it was over we waited for the prince of the classic type of roller coaster: the Fujiyama ...
In 1997 he was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest roller coaster in the world, with its 79 meters (26 floors of a building) . Now I think it is still among the top ten highest ...
( Video by challengemania7yas ) Here's an on-board video in HD of course. Crazy things ...
( Video by dapherneer ) And here's what happens to a guy who tries to do Karaoke on board ...
And here I am (gray jacket) to the first drop of only 70 meters with a speed of 130km/h...divertentissimo dell'Eejanaika and less scary, but a lot bigger (the path is longer than 2 km).
And then came the turn of the missile, the Dodonpa. Almost 3 hours of endless row.
A bit of data: Maximum speed 172 km / h, length 1189 meters, 60 seconds duration, maximum acceleration (at the base of the tower) 4.25 G, the highest point 52 m , maximum angle of 90 degree drop. It 's the third fastest roller coaster in the world and holds the record for roller coaster with the world's most intense acceleration from 0 to 172 km / h in 1.8 seconds . The acceleration is allucinante, davvero indescrivibile, paragonabile all'accelerazione subita da un aereo da caccia lanciato da una portaerei (il sistema รจ molto simile, il roller coaster utilizza una catapulta ad aria compressa, la portaerei una catapulta a vapore)...
( Video by purplefinale , uno dei maggiori otaku di roller coaster in Giappone, nel suo canale ci sono TUTTI i roller coaster del Giappone ripresi onboard ) Ecco un video che comunque non rende l'accelerazione, ma dimostra la geometria del tracciato.
Now, seasoned by roller coaster riders could afford a smile ...
And the busy day ended with a file my furtive solitary Bliz (I had to keep a promise) to stand in their World Evangelion closing time ...
Viewing EVA-size immersed in Bakelite is priceless ...
There was among the many attractions including an entry-plug of an EVA ...
This picture cost me 1000 yen, but if I can ever make me take pictures inside the entry plug of an EVA?
The rest is history. We could not see the attraction of the horrors of the hospital, inspired by Resident Evil and Silent Hill, two blockbuster videogame. Back in Tokyo sleeping like a log, a greeting to friends of David in front of photographers east exit of Shinjuku station and then straight home to eat a good Japanese curry.
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) Last day, total depression, vague to the city \u200b\u200bas a zombie, thinking that "this time" is about to end. One of the many corridors of the metro after a month I seem so normal. It 's funny how time can eliminate the word "amazing" even from Japan. Sometimes I think that if we lived in Japan, maybe I could not do a blog so sick like this, because in the long run it all seemed so "normal." But I'm coming, so get ready for the usual menate Mappin, railroads, model train and "amazing things". 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) We go out to "see the stars" in Aoyama, a dreary autumn day, the usual traffic and the usual salaryman and OL (Office Ladies) who go around at lunch with their badges in plain view. Today we do not have a definite destination, to be honest ... 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) Here, as anywhere else in Japan is cool to give Italian names to shops and activities, this is the sign of a hair salon (also male ... so it's very weird ...) 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) A pile of garbage in the street? In Tokyo? Yes, just before the passage of eco-compactor (TG1 docet) comes a guy who puts the garbage collection in heaps on the pavement the night before in the road to allow faster collection ... 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) Lunch at local restaurant in Okinawa, where we ate a typical Okinawan soba (this has a fat pig meat) ... 
... and this has grassissima pork meat ... great with the face of the surimi Shiisa, the lion mascot of Okinawa! 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) After lunch we walked a few meters to reach Omotesando here is one of the coolest Japanese I've ever seen! : D 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) There, and here are a constant, the luxury cars, like this beautiful Nissan R-34 .. . 
We were going to the famous Kiddy-Land in Omotesando, but we found that was moved temporanetamente Cat Street, a small apartment in the beautiful viuzzola that extends south of the avenue ... 
It's full of great shops ... 
And there is also the temporary home of Kiddy-Land, where we bought the impossible! 
Here also the word "stop" on the ground has a sophisticated look, the legendary ... 
I love the peaceful atmosphere of this small apartment, especially if I think a few meters away is the teen-carnage Harajuku ... 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) A detour a Ginza al calar del sole, dove sotto l'orologio ci attendeva la mia sorellona Kazu-Zen , per l'ennesimo arrivederci. Grazie sorellona per gli splendidi momenti passati assieme, e soprattutto per avermi sopportato al museo della metro!! Ti voglio bene!! 
Cena a Saitama in questo ristorante incredibile con la famiglia di Shiho... 
Cibi incredibili, come questa gustosissima insalata che ha un tocco veramente di classe: l'uovo in camicia al centro... 
Il solito immancabile Sashimi for me and David ... 
meat cut beyond belief ... 
And so home to pack. I could not resist not to photograph the landscapes that have accompanied me for a month, as the view from the palace where he lives Shiho ... 
From there, every night coming home I could see, extending the eye could see below me the immense grasslands of the northern outskirts of urban Tokyo ... 
I will miss Yakuza's who on Saturday night (only on Saturday night) were just below the skids, I will be awakened by the physical education teacher of the school below with the megaphone shouting orders to the students enslaved to forty degrees in the shade, I will miss trains, long, night-lit across the landscape as the geometric essences. I will miss the serenity of being in a place that I love, surrounded by people who adores me and shows me love by the ton. The problem is that I only ever notice it when I get back here at home. 
We took the cakes to pastries of the ANA Intercontinental, in Akasaka, Minato-ku. Shiho's father to like sweets, and if it is deserved them every day back home went to the supermarket to buy a bottle of CC Lemon, for me, and I left with a suitcase full of his gifts ... 
And here's the dessert that I chose, another constant of this journey: the cheese cake. Thanks for everything. Tomorrow we go. Good night. 
