Japanese Trip, 2000

Monday 4 September
8.45 am
Sunset
Short night
4 hours
Kansai International Airport
Artificial island
Very bright weather
Train from Osaka to Kyoto
First questions
Where are you from?
Are you here on holidays?
Have you find a place to stay?
Kyoto
Kyoto Station
Utano Youth hostel
First coffee shop
First temple
Ninna-ji temple
Porte
Very tired
First public hot bath
Baslets
First japanese room
Tatami
Kyoto
Cicada
Television
Kyoto TV
Waiting for an earthquake

Tuesday 5 September
Higashiyama-ku area
Maruzen bookstore
Yasaka shrine
Cyprus wood smell
Fountains
Chion-In temple
National Museum of Art
Dutch artists
Dutch exhibition
Heian shrine
Night at 6 pm
Noodle bar in a street corner
Noisy bus
Hotel
Phoned Koko in Tokyo

Wednesday 6 September
Cycling in the west of Kyoto
Nison-In temple
Cats
Cats
Calm
Gioji temple
Sun burn
Crossing Togetsu-Ryo bridge
Japanese tourists
Photographs
Restaurant
Monkey
Singe
Hozu river
Ryoanji temple
Stone garden
Zen Garden
Same noodle bar as yesterday
Habits come quickly
Smiles
Adopted
Phoned home
Night
Early morning in Europe

Thursday 7 September
Centre of Kyoto
Imperial Palace
Bike
Impressed
Kyoto Archaeologic Museum
New japanese western pastries
Design college on a hill
Overall view on the town
Kyoto
Weather very hot and humid
Bus
Kawaramachi-dori
Araki book
Goodnight

Friday 8 September
Last day in Kyoto
Higashi-Honganji temple
Huge the Tree
Nishi-Honganji temple
Nijo castle
Back to Kawaramachi-dori
Last night in Kyoto
We already miss the city
Washing machine

Saturday 9 September
Shinkansen for Okayama
Very very hot
Old fashioned Youth Hostel
But comfortable
Train for a small village
Imbe
Ceramics village
Storm is preparing
Bizen
Rain
On TV
Iminant typhoon
In the Pacific
Restaurant in Okayama station
Train drivers and controllers
Few glances
Okayama
CNRS french scientist

Sunday 10 September
Okayama garden
Okayama
Peaceful
Cherry trees
Train for Hiroshima
Peace Museum
Hyroshima

Monday 11 September
Miyajima island
Deers
Miyajima
Temple
Feet in water
Shell picking
Robot leaf shape cakes
Mount Mizen climbing
Miajima
Hot damp forest
Effort
Spiders
Spiders
Monkeys
Top
View on Hiroshima bay
Ferry boat
Big Mac on top of a building
Hiroshima is great

Tuesday 12 September
Departure for Kyushu island
Shinkansen for Fukuoka
Train for Kumamoto
Train Station
Pyramidal wood castle
Castle
Last train for Aso
Active vulcano
Youth Hostel down the vulcano

Wednesday 13 September
No luck
Typhoon
Rain
Wind
Clouds
Train for Beppu
Hot springs
More than two hours journey
Natural hot water bath
Hot Water
Extremely hot water
Made it
Kanawa
Crocodile
Boiling water coming from Earth
Blue
Hell village
Relax
Back to Aso

Thursday 14 September
Mount Aso climbing
Rain
Wet
Refuge
Bunker
Extreme wind
Volcano
Crater
Blue water
Sulphur
Coming down
Desert
Long walk
Little temple
1 mother cat and 5 little cats
Cats
2 hours

Friday 15 September
6.26 am
Aso train station
4.14 pm
Tokyo
Ryokan
Walk
Restaurant
Starck Asahi building
Street party

Saturday 16 September
Ginza
ggg Gallery
Yamaha building
Sony building
How to read a japanese address

Sunday 17 September
Shinjuku
Shinjuku
Electronic supermarket
Machines
Biggest bookshop of Tokyo

Monday 18 September
Shinjuku
Tempura
See again Koko after one year
Koko
Train
Suburb
Tadanori Yokoo
Yokoo
2.30 pm
His studio
Famous leather sofa
Armchair with books
Questions
Answers
Yokoo writes his dreams
Always do what you want to do
Black eyes with make-up
Japanese icon
Pop star
Yokoo signed our book
Yokoo
Photograph
Later
Meeting with Koichi Sato
Sato
Fresh green tea
Bean cake on a leaf
Posters
Autograph
Photograph
Café with Koko
Thank you Koko for your help
Idea magazine
Meeting there
Graphic discussion with editor
Tokyo International Youth Hostel
Tokyo
Young Americans
on their Tokyo Disneyland trip

Tuesday 19 September
Shibuya
Hachiko to meet Koko
Harajuku
Shops
Laforêt store
Café with Koko
4 pm
Meeting with Norio Nakamura
Nakamura
Graphic designer
32 years old
Sony
Playstation
Autograph
Photograph

Wednesday 20 September
Kimi Ryokan
Ikebukuro
Tobu and Seibu shopping malls
Toyota showroom
Harajuku
Flâner
Meet Koko
Meeting with Makoto Saito
Saito
Concrete building next to JAGDA
French food
Wine
Extraordinary bad French prints
Japan-Brazil football match
Very kind
Autograph
Photograph
Fashionable restaurant
Bucket-lamps
Bruschetta sardine
Ryokan
Yukata
Kimi Ukata
Bath
Television
Kimi TV

Thursday 21 September
Shibuya
Tachibana Design
Tachibana
Arigato
Train Ueno
Ueno
Yakitori
Architect
Ueno park
Ueno park
Goodbye Koko
Good luck

Friday 22 September
Last day in Japan
No money left

Saturday 23 September
Take-off


Travel made possible with the help
of two RSA Student Travel Awards
won in 1999