Hello and 今日は (konnichi wa) dear followers!
First I want to thank you all for the nice comments I got to my two previous entries. Always makes me happy to read them, 本当にありがとうございます。
Today I want to continue with the Japantag (Japan-day) event. This entry will be about the actual Japantag which was on Saturday.
I woke up around 9:30 am to get ready in time. It always takes around 45 minutes only for getting dressed up in Kimono (+ 1 hour for makeup etc. ). After my boyfriend and me were ready we took a taxi to drive to the Nikko hotel. My friend Laura wanted to make my hair =) Here is the final result and the whole Kimono ensemble for Saturday:
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| ready to go ~ |
We also made a few group pictures in front of the hotel Nikko, here is one of them:
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| boyfriend, friends and me xD |
First we went to several shops:
the Kyoto shop had many beautiful and traditional stuff, even for Kimono and Yukata. But all was very expensive :(
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| Yukata ♥ |
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| Geta ~ |
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| rabbit fan >_< ♥ |
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| super expensive but cute owl ♥ |
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| lovely fans for traditional dance ♥ |
the Nippon bookstore had mainly Japanese learning books, not very interesting since I already have such books - and tons of magazines:
the OCS store was also open again, but for the last time and had a mega sale. I bought cute rice- and soup bowls there and a mobile phone charm (see on the other pics):
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| tsuki no usagi ♥ moon rabbit ♥ |
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| kingyo - goldfish ♥ |
After our shopping trip we all went to the Bolkerstraße (Bolkerstreet). I´ve never been to this part of Düsseldorf before *lol* This street it full of restaurants and bars. I mean, in my hometown there are also a lot ... but this place OMG - FOOD HEAVEN! o.o
In the end we found a bar called "Sweet Heart" and ordered some cocktails; mine was without alcohol tho ~
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| my drink ♥ |
To get to the Rheinufer (Rhine) where the actual festival takes place, you have to walk through the city:
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| exclusive shops *money, where are you? *haha* |
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| mega fan xD |
Funnily enough this year a lot more people took pictures of me. A man came to me with a professional camera and made a few pics directly in the city. I wish that I can find them someday online but a friend of mine made a pic while I posed ^^"
and a few more stalker pics from my friends *haha*
Finally we arrived at the Rhine promenade ^_^
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| cloudy but no rain ♥ |
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| Rhine promenade ♥ |
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| many Cosplayers |
Impressive Cosplay:
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| Disney *w* |
... and me again:
Like every year there are tons of stalls which sell anime/manga merchandise, display traditional stuff and much more:
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| lovely Ikebana ♥ |
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| Origami |
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| Chiba information stall |
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| furin - windbells ♥ |
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| Nya Nya ~ |
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| many Maneki-Neko O(=^_^=)O |
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| the most visited stall xD |
You really can get a lot of cute and lovely stuff, but most of it is often super expensive, you cannot imagine *sighs*
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| amazing live painting *o* |
Here you can see my shopping haul of Saturday:
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| cute Hello Kitty envelopes ♥ |
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| postcards with trad. motives for my collection ~ |
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| art books for my book collection |
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| finally I have Kiharu´s book ^-^ and another Ukiyo-e book |
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| cute wallet ~ |
Around 20:30 pm we went back to the hotel, I changed my clothes (and already packed most of my stuff into the luggage) to go back to the Rhine promenade for the firework which started aroun 23:00 pm.
It was a good idea that I had changed into normal clothes cause the weather changed and it rained literally cat and dogs ...
Hope you enjoyed the pics and would be nice if you´d leave a comment. THANKS ♥
