東京と大阪 ♡ city view

As one of the last posts about my trip to Japan, I tried to gather all the photos that were still missing to grand them another post, that will be filled with impressions I collected when I roamed the cities of Osaka and Tokyo.

スカイ・ライン ♡ all the lights

During one of our last days of our stay, back in Tokyo we took the oportunity to visit the Tokyo Tower. Sadly the weather wasn't that good and so we went without going up the tower, being quite sure the view through foggy air and grey clouds wouldn't be worth the while. The time we spend in the base of the tower and the cute food, however was worth it and the next time, I will go on a good-weather day and enjoy the view from the top of the tower even more.

浅草 ♡ the aftermath

When I looked through my remaining photos I found a bunch that definitely deserved an own post.

The day deserves some words anyway, though it's not chronological anymore, since it was before our trip to Tokyo Disney Land (part one | part two).

渋谷 ♡ into the night - TRUMPROOM

As much as anticipated seeing so many things in Tokyo and making my first experiences in this country in general, I was really thrilled to meet Catrin from Mutsuminism, a really cool and super fashionable blogger who was living in Tokyo during my stay.
After we returned from our trip to Osaka, we finally took the chance to meet up and enjoy Tokyo's nightlife.

新大久保駅 ♡ EXO's living room

... or K-POP {and music} in Tokyo

I'm pretty sure this update is long overdue. 

I'm kind of sorry, really but on the other hand I've been such a lazy bum since my lecturers ended.

It's been almost a week now and I didn't do much yet. Not even for my term paper but I gladly realized that my writer's block {that's been bothering me for almost nine moths} is finally gone and I've found the motivation to work on a project I've been planning more than a year now.

This time now, I want to share a bunch of photos from Shin Okubo {already mentioned in the headline} as well as one of my most favorite stores I've been to during my time in Tokyo: Tower Records in Shibuya.

It's a large, 5 or 6 story building stuffed with nothing but music. Music of all sorts, from everywhere and I don't even know what.

It's amazing. I tell you... and I'm pretty sure I spent the majority of the money I spent - there.

練馬区の桜台 ♡ my neighborhood

As expected, after the first row of midterm tests are over and I just have another re-exam coming up - 

yuku is a scaredy cat and fails this one written exam ALL the damn time...

 can't keep her cool if pressured too much 

- I used some non-existent spare time to finally finish editing the photos for the next JAPAN posting.

This time we'll take a closer look to the neighborhood I lived in.
Honestly, I didn't saw incredibly much of it apart from the two routes I walked every day to get to one of the two stations that were in walking distance but during my second week, when my cutie-patooty felix had settled in for a few days already, we decided to make the best out of a 'free' day and stroll around our neighborhood to take in some of the 'Japanese' flaire and enjoy the sun, fresh air and good weather.

Since we just randomly went off to 'discover' our surroundings I still don't know what the shrine we found before we made our way back is called or where it even is located.
Later, on one of my last tours, when I got another suitcase because yes - of course I had too much luggage - I took photos of the cherry trees around Sakuradai Station {桜台駅} being this the only chance I really had to capture them in Tokyo. The weather that day was rainy and a bit stormy, too but thanks to photobucket the photos still look really cute and dreamy now.
I'm sorry they are not really assorted but it's getting late here and I should head to bed, soon.

私のアパート ♡ room tour

One of the minor but still existent good points of having a blog is the potential of procrastination that comes with it. So as usual - I should be doing homework or study vocabulary right now but instead I finally came along to write the first posting about my trip to Japan.

Basic information is basic.
My flight to Japan was at the 2nd of March, had a stay in Copenhagen's Kastrup-airport and arrived at Narita March 3rd.
Additionally I made a really small overview to show you when I stayed where. It's not really fancy but should be a bit helpful at least.

In this first part I want to give the answer of one of the most frequently asked questions: Where did you stay?
I could cut it really, really short and just give you the adress but you sure want some photos and details and here you have them.


I stayed in a small 20m² flat, on my own.
It was in a really, really calm, beautiful neighbor-hood {I will make an extra posting about that} a bit off the center, in Sakuradai {桜台} - a part of the ward Nerima {練馬区}. It's west of Ikebukuro Station {池袋駅} and it takes you roughly 10min to get from Sakuradai Station {桜台駅} there.
As soon as you reached Ikebukuro Station it's a lot easier to get anywhere since it's a station on the Yamanote-Line {山手線} - prolly the most important JR-line in Tokyo.
If I wanted to get to Shinjuku {新宿駅} for example; it took me approximately 25min which is - in my opinion - no time at all, considering that here at home I need about three-quaters of an hour to get to Berlin's city.

東京 ♡ 1st week

It's been almost a week since I'm here and though nothing much has happened yet, I guess I should share some bits with you anyway.
I arrived at NARITA at the 3rd of March (JST) and after some more or less necessary checking I met my dear friend Sha who was already waiting for me. We went to my appartment directly and though my suitcase broke on the way (damn handle) we had luck. Though it was said my check-in time would be 3pm, we actually were allowed to get into the flat already at 1:40pm. So way eariler than we thought.