Every Wednesday we have KCJS group activities/trips and this week we had a "scavenger hunt." Groups were given a location to visit and explore and then we were all to meet back at some restaurant and present stuff while we ate. Lots of people actually got to visit temples and shrines. My group got the more boring one...find movie theaters in Kyoto :P. Yeah, since my group was made up of kids from the fall semester we found the theaters fairly quickly and then proceeded to a donut shop that sold yummy soy donuts!
New Bleach movie
New Bond movie will be coming out sometime soon here.
Before we started our adventure we ended up visit a bookstore called Book Off. Its amazing!!!
For all you manga lovers out there this place is perfect for you! There are just bookshelves upon book shelves of manga and the best part is its so cheap! Manga usually sells for around 300 yen...about 3 dollars. The older manga (stuff like Death Note, Ruroni Kenshin, Inuyasha, etc.) is all about 105 yen (about $1).
So many manga!
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Ruroni Kenshin!
Yeah, Id been meaning to get into new series while Im here so I bought myself the first volume to G.T.O (great teacher onizuka...its about an ex-yakuza who wants to become a teacher..ive heard good things about it). I also got the first volume to a manga by the guy who made Death note. All and all I made 210 yen...about 2 dollars...back in the states each book probably would have cost me around $8-12 each. Yeah, its amazing how cheap things are when the industry so well supported by society. Everyone reads manga (even my host mom has several volumes of ojiwaru basan about a grandma whose a trickster and is always pranking people). They also made this into a TV show that I watched with my host mom the first night.
After our "scavenger hunting" we met up at a restaurant called Ganko. It was amazing (and looked super expensive). It used to be the house of the first general of the imperial army of Japan during the Meiji era. So its super fancy and it has a huge amazing garden!!!!
Fancy!
Gorgeous! One of the reasons I came to Kyoto
Also...everyone always says Japan is so expensive but you can find so many places with really good food for so little (a huge bowl of ramen at the school cafeteria goes for about 300-400 yen).
Here's what I usually eat....gyoza ramen (fried dumpling ramen) with a side of kimchi and a salad.
All of this food at the Rene's: 600 yen
A happy and full Enrique: Priceless
...yup...so thats been my first week and a half in Japan thus far. Im having a blast (and prob gaining weight XD :P)!
Wow, if I could buy manga for $1 a book I'd probably start reading a lot more of it. Or I guess I wouldn't since it would be in Japanese :D
ReplyDeleteHahaha, Im in that predicament now. I have to use my electronic dictionary to look up like half the characters in the word bubbles.
ReplyDeletehey, quike, did you know there's a book-off in new york city? my friend showed it to me during interterm - it's like a block away from bryant park. you should def check it out, especially since nearby is this awesome cafeteria that sells beard papa's cream puffs and melon pan. XD
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