Title: 09. Tokyo Journey - Day 3 // Folder: 09. ToKyo 旅行
Written on 2010.03.13 at 02:25 AM // Made public on 2010.09.18 at 02:59 AM
The 3rd day was Wingbus'1 recommended 2nd Tokyo route which I changed according to a Tip I saw
and I chose the Ueno - Asakusa - Odaiba route ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Even now that I think about it again I believe this course was the perfect choice
Anyway the day before I had laid out my plans for the next day, trying to look at places here and there to go to
and because I went to sleep too late my plan of departing at 10 totally failed
and it resulted in me leaving at 12 ㅠㅠ
Also, for lunch I made do with Japanese cup ramen I bought the previous day ㅎㅎ
I took the Ginza line and after I passed no less than 14 stops I arrived in Ueno station!
But looking at the guide I couldn't find Ueno Park2 so I found it
only by barely wandering around while going '우에노 파크 도꼬데스까~'3;
Although I remember climbing up quite a lot of stairs to some place..
as soon as I went all the way up there was a beautiful landscape
stretching right over the entire park! And there was also an elder taking a nap on the bench~
I wanted to freely look around a bit.......
but thanks to my being 2 hours late
I totally had to look around Ueno Park in a flash..
First of all I found this great wide-looking place so I went in~
And later I found out that the place I went to was 'Kiyomizu Kannon-do Temple'4
It gives off the vibe of being some notorious place........
But for all I know there are shards of wood called 'Ema(絵馬)'5
on which you carve what you feel is your wish~
Before entering there's even a place to cleanse your hands!
With even a helpful drawn explanation of how to go wash your hands there ~~
When I went in I also asked a friendly looking Japanese couple to take a picture!
Honestly I wanted to see the 'Doctor Wang In shrine'6 the most in Ueno Park
As he is the person who introduced Hanja7 during the Baekje Era8
But I couldn't find it9.......... even though I searched throughout all of Ueno Park I couldn't find it
Eventually I just moved over to another place
But it turned out that upon arrival as I was going 'waah amazinnng'10
I unknowingly took a picture of a 'monument' which was none other than the 'Doctor Wang In shrine' ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
1 Wingbus is a website that collects stories and pictures posted up by bloggers about their tour(s). This helps future travellers get information about restaurants, sightseeing places, etc. This is the section Kyuhyun visited.
2 More on Ueno Park
3 It's Japanese written out in hangeul for 'Where is Ueno Park~'
4 More on Kiyomizu Kannon-do Temple
5 Ema (絵馬) are small wooden plaques on which Shinto worshippers write their prayers or wishes
6 Wang In, or Wani in Japan, is a semi-legendary figure from the Kingdom of Baekje (Korea) who shared his knowledge of Confucianism and introduced the Chinese writing system.
7 Hanja is is the Korean name for Chinese characters used in the Korean language.
8 Baekje Era: 18 BC – 660 AD, to give you an idea.
9 While Kyuhyun seems to not know much what to do with maps, directions and such, I researched a bit and found out that the monument he wanted to see the most is actually a bit hidden in the wood.
10 Originally, '우왕 멋지당' which is said/written in a cute way.
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Translated by. Gaia at SJ-WORLD.NET
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Title: 09. Tokyo Journey - Day 3 // Folder: 09. ToKyo 旅行
Written on 2010.03.13 at 02:46 AM // Made public on 2010.09.18 at 02:59 AM
I kept on wandering about in Ueno Park1.........
I couldn't go in to see everything since I didn't have time and I only took pictures of the front area
there are also places that I missed out so it's very upsetting~
On my way back there were also a lot of people drawing illustrations as well as people doing basketball acrobatics
doing magic and so on, there were people from various(?) fields~
Then I went to another impressive looking place
but since you can see it in detail only as you approach it, only the front turned out to be a real building
and the back of it was a design........... perhaps it's just getting constructed
there must be some reason~ ㅎㅎ
Then I saw that the 'Kiyomizu Kannon-do Temple'2 was filled with 'Ema'3 outside
so I politely called a Japanese gentleman who was passing by and asked him to take a picture !
Anyway there are pictures of places I still don't know what they are......
that's because I didn't have much time so I had to rush through ㅠ
1 More on Ueno Park
2 More on Kiyomizu Kannon-do Temple
3 Ema (絵馬) are small wooden plaques on which Shinto worshippers write their prayers or wishes.
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Title: 09. Tokyo Journey - Day 3 // Folder: 09. ToKyo 旅行
Written on 2010.03.13 at 02:52 AM // Made public on 2010.09.18 at 02:59 AM
On my way out of Ueno Park..1
I passed by a really beautiful place.....
But since I wandered about without a real plan I don't know with certainty the name of the thing I saw
anyway the landscape was so pretty that I was more than mesmerized
and I asked people who came out to play as a family unit to please take a picture ㅎㅎ
Just for a little while, in the street to Ameyoko market2
I only saw it in Japanese manhwa3!! (To be precise in 'GTO'4 manhwa books)
None other than that sport that seems to be played only by aged people
in which you hit a ball with a hammer-like thing.. I discovered elders doing that
and it was exciting so I sneakily took a picture~ ㅎㅎ it was amazing!5
Also 'Ameyoko' is almost like our country's Namdaemun market6...
I went to such a place~ really found just about anything ㅋㅋㅋ
1 More on Ueno Park
2 Ameyoko is a busy market street.
3 Manga (lol♥)
4 GTO is Great Teacher Onizuka
5 Kyuhyun is talking about croquet.
6 Namdaemun Market is the largest traditional market in Korea.
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Title: 09. Tokyo Journey - Day 3 // Folder: 09. ToKyo 旅行
Written and made public on 2010.09.18 at 02:59 AM
On the way back: the 'Yurikamome (ゆりかもめ )'
Tokyo's first introduced driver-less and computer driven
monorail look-a-like.. I came back riding that~
And then on the way back to the place I stayed at..
I was passing in front of Starbucks and there I found
women wearing a 'Kimono (着物)' and enjoying their coffee
I wanted to take a picture with people wearing a 'Kimono' at any cost in Japan
so I was disappointed that there was nobody wearing it where I went, but in the car I'd coincidentially see some!
Going up to people who were drinking coffee so I could take a picture was a little awkward
so after I worried in front of them thinking about it for 5 minutes... I eventually made a decision
and went up to them to talk about taking a picture together and they accepted without hesitation~~^^
I went back to my lodging in a very good mood and was able to fall asleep ㅎ.ㅎ
Mmh... by the way those clothes are Kimono right..?
Note: Yukata are made of cotton and are usually worn in the Summer; since Kyuhyun went to Japan in August, most people were wearing Yukata.
Original Source. 조규현미니홈피
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