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    • July
      • Back in Finland
        07/06/12
        So, I'm back in Finland now, safe and sound.

        Got loads of things to do here..

        so I'll write a longer post later when I can!

        see you!

    • June
      • so my exchange year is coming to an end
        06/19/12

        Hello everyone.

        I have been really busy few last weeks so I haven't written anything much here. Sorry about that!

        I have now less than two weeks left here and I got some last minute stuff to do.. Like sending stuff that won't fit in my luggage to Finland and so on.

    • May
      • I'm back in Kobe!
        05/16/12
        Sorry for the late update!

        I arrived back in Kobe on day 34 and have been here for few days now, taking part in the club activities.

        after I stayed in Wakayama, I headed to Osaka and when I was there, I felt I might go all the way to Kobe that night as well. And so I did.

      • Day 32: My travels are over soon I guess
        05/09/12

        I'm now in Tokushima. On day 30 I came down from Takamatsu and stopped in Naruto. On day 31, I went to see the Naruto whirlpools in Naruto strait. First, I went to walkway built under the motorway bridge. Here some pics from there





        Then I decided to take a boa

      • Day 29: Greetings from Takamatsu
        05/06/12
        No pictures today... But I marked the cities and the approximate route to the map!

        I used different color for different days, but I didn't mark days spent in the same place.

        I hope you like it!

      • Day 27: In Kouchi
        05/04/12

        Hello again!

        Today I reached Kouchi, after long trip from Oozu. I did something I wanted to do for long time, took a dip in the mountain river on the way.



        It was really cold, and refreshing!

        Next I went on and on, and the road just got smaller and t

      • day 25: almost a month on the road
        05/02/12
        Good day from Shikoku! I came here just yesterday, using Ferry from Saganoseki.




        On day 22, I left Kumamoto and headed for Ooita. I stayed one night in tent.. and in the morning it started raining. I had no choice but to continue, and on day 23's evening, I reached O

    • April
      • Day 21: I stayed at mt. Unzen
        04/28/12

        Hi! Let's start with continuation from day 17.

        I arrived in Shimabara and cycled towards Nagasaki city. When there was only 16 km left, I thought I was almost there. But starting from there, it was uphill all the way. About 2 km away from the city, it became downhill, but I had to h

      • Day 17: I left Kumamoto for Nagasaki
        04/24/12

        I spend splendid two days in Kumamoto, mostly thanks to my friend.


        We went to Suizenji park on the day arrived









        After that we went to Kumamoto castle


        The picture actually taken by my friend few weeks b

      • Day 15: On my way to Kumamoto
        04/22/12

        On day 13, I decided to stay one more night in Fukuoka, because my friend send me a message that we could go eat somewhere that evening. So we went and it was fun!

        Then yesterday, I left Fukuoka. I first thought I would go Saga.. But then I thought that I could make it all the way

      • day number "I don't remember now"
        04/20/12

        I've been in Fukuoka for few days now.. I'll just leave these here for now:




        Nice big hotel room for just 3200 yen:





        Some "old weapons shop" window


        Famous dish of Fukuoka: Motsunabe


        Picture with the

      • Day 10: I'm in kyuushuu now
        04/17/12

        Hi, I'm in coin laundry again.

        On day 8, I travelled forward and reached Ube. Here's pictures I took on the way to Ube:





        And this is the netcafe I stayed at Ube



        On day 9 I went on and finally reached Shimonoseki, city where t

      • Had some problems! Please read the 2 latest entries again!
        04/15/12
        Due to some problems, About half of the stuff was left out.. It's fixed now, enjoy!

      • Day 8: part 2: day 6, 7 and 8: In Hiroshima and after
        04/15/12
        Ok, Here goes.. First, few more views from the way on Hiroshima!

        Mountain top highway


        Perfect place for birdnest? the lamp before shop door, of course..


        I finally made my way to Hiroshima. From the top of the mountain, it was all downhill. But anyways, I

      • Day 7: part 1, day 3, 4 and 5, towards Hiroshima
        04/15/12
        Sorry for the delay! Really tired so no time to write~ but today is updateday!

        First, some nice sakura.. On the way to Hiroshima



        Then some stories, I guess?
        Day 3, after somehow managing to reach Okayama on day 2, I was ready to move on. I thought I would take

      • Day 3: Long way to go
        04/10/12
        I've traveled approx. 190 km in two days now. Yesterday I made few mistakes in my route and lost few hours, plenty kilometers and great deal of strenght.

        But thanks to losing my way, I found a famous okonomiyaki restaurant, Tamachan.



        Then it started raining and

      • Day 2: On my way to Okayama
        04/09/12

        So, yesterday I left Kobe for Kyuushuu by bicycle. I cycled yesterday only for 5 hours due to late departure around 1pm and getting lost two times. The first time I was helped by some hiker to get back to road. And the next I had to rely on my phone to download a map, because I couldn't find a

      • Nara once again
        04/06/12

        My friend from Nara invited me to visit Nara with him and some other friends. We had a nice day, visiting museum, some historical sites, climbimg a small mountain and eating some local specialties.
        So let's share some picture's!

        Closest 4 people are my friends


    • March
      • se on kesa ny!
        03/30/12

        tai kevat




      • A man and his bicycle..
        03/20/12

        So, in preparation for the future trip.. I decided to do a "practise round" and went to Kyoto by bicycle. around 70-80 km, took me about 6 hours(if I didn't lose the way in the end, maybe 5 hours) with average speed of 12 km/h.

        So some pictures I took on the way...
        Scenery fro

      • Tokyo update on the way
        03/16/12

        Okay, I'm finally uploading some picture from tokyo!

        I had some free time, and I wanted to go somewhere, and my friend told me to come to tokyo. So I went there! Hmm I'll just leave these pictures here..

        This from Meiji Shrine.. It has great history! That I didn't learn a

      • I visited Japanese television a bit ^^
        03/08/12

      • waiting for the bus
        03/05/12

        I have been playing around tokyo this week. Now Im jus looking out of the window at a cafe and watching people go by. and waiting for the bus, of course.

        I will write a tokyo update later I think.. look forward to it!




      • First, last weekend's katana museum
        03/03/12

        I went to a very small katana museum in osaka. It was actually home of person who makes "that finishing touch" to katanas, polishes them and so on. so let's get to the pictures!


        stages of making the sword


        different types of stones, all used for polishing

    • February
      • I got it ready
        02/08/12

        Hello everyone! today was my last exam(semiconductor electric engineering 2). Only one report to write and spring vacation starts!

        Well, I didn't just study for the exams during past weeks, I did some other stuff too, for instance, I made this:




        It was s

      • I went to MacDonalds today...
        02/03/12

        And my friends put up a little contest(I didn't participate), because the french fries, any size, were 150 yen.






        so they ate about that much. Or more, the contest isn't over yet.. _merica is coming to Japan.

        See you next time!

      • it was snowing yesterday
        02/03/12

        It snowed quite much, actually. but it melted fast too. Here some pics:








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      • Studying for the exams...
        02/01/12
        I found nice thingy on the teachers website; a globe that shows where the site has been accessed.

        Looks pretty cool! See it on the right side.

        get it here:
        revolver maps

        see you next time!

    • January
      • Back up...
        01/27/12
        There were some problems with the server for almost a week, fault of the company I'm renting the server from, they didn't react to my mail until I sent them mail again today.

        I'll maybe write more later! anyways, I've been terrible blogger, sorry!

        You can ex

  • 2011
    • November
      • Hello, it's been a long time!
        11/27/11

        I haven't written anything in a while, but It's only because I've been lazy in that aspect!

        So, I'll up some pics I took yesterday at Kyoto university!

        The entrance. The name, it relates, of course to the month it's held, but I got the feeling it had something to do with

    • August
      • It's been a while, sorry
        08/28/11

        Hello!

        I'm sorry I haven't updated this blog frequently. I will maybe later make some posts about the time my family spent in Japan. Currently, I'm in Nagano, on ESS summer camp. Todays the second last day. So I thought I'd send some pictures, rather small though... Here goes.
    • July
      • I forgot to tell you
        07/27/11
        Take a look at the right side of the page and see the "where have i been" -map. By the way, it's Hokkaido in upper left, it wouldn't fit nicely so it was cut and put there!

        see ya!

      • Reporting in
        07/27/11

        Hello, currently I've got nothing very special for you.. only few pics from nearby mountain and some comments:





        Raportoin tallaisesta nakoala vessasta! kopeista ei kylla nae pihalle.

        sitten naita vuoristokuvia, vain vahan.



        mai

      • It's been a while
        07/12/11

        I'm sorry for the lack of updates in last few weeks.

        A lot keeps happening, but I donpt know what to report here. So I'll tell just some random things.

        My family is coming to Japan in August.

        The exams are coming.. I have no idea how they'll turn out. Good I

    • June
      • I managed to get my system working!
        06/20/11

        I can now write proper entries with as many pics as I want, from my mobile phone.

        So here two interesting (or not) pictures:

        First, nice job found for apple magazine...


        And some men at work, no fear for high places.




        I'm lookin

      • Visiting 王子公園動物園 (oojikouen zoo)
        06/11/11
        Sorry, it's been a while since last proper entry.

        So, I offer you some pictures from a zoo I visited last week!

        Lately I've been living just normal life, like going to university, studying and having fun with people I've met. Nothing special comes to my mind real

    • May
      • Random pictures working!
        05/21/11
        http://japan.foximity.net/static.php?page=random_pics

        Check it out! and keep checking! When I don't have PC access, I will, from time to time, use my phone to upload small entries there!

        See ya!

      • And finally, the Hiroshima update
        05/15/11
        OKay, so few pics from the trip I made to Hiroshima last week. They are not really in chronological order or anything, sorry for that..

        Hope you enjoy.



        The room at the hostel/hotel. It was unexpectedly quite spacy.


        On the trip by bus to Hiroshima, t

      • I'm still here!
        05/11/11
        Sorry for the delay,

        and for letting you wait some more. I just came here to tell you that more is to come, when I find some time to write it down. Lot's of pics from Hiroshima incoming!

        Also look forward to "pictures uploaded at random places" as I get it to wor

    • April
      • Hejsan!
        04/26/11
        No I'm not going to start speaking Swedish.. But I met 2 Swedes taking same lessons I did, they had apparently come here in October and are going to leave in August. Nice to meet fellow scandinavians, they were also surprised to hear I'm from Finland.

        Starting this weeks Friday,

      • Okie dokie, finally I got these pictures uploaded
        04/22/11

        A picture outside the castle, see the moat and the trees.


        Sadly the main tower was under renoval, and I couldn't see it. It has been "drawn" to the wall of the renoval scaffolds.


        The gates were huge.


        Samurai armors, too bad they

      • I got a job
        04/18/11
        Yes, I'm going to start teaching Finnish at language school.. They we're desperately needing Finnish teachers apparently!
        The pay is quite good, and it doesn't take too much time either. Perfect for a student like me I guess.
        Buut, I need to fill one application once more, t

      • Still no pictures, sorry!
        04/13/11
        Okay, lot's of things have happened in this short period again.

        I'll go it through partly:

        The party on last friday was pretty nice (bonus: free dinner!). On saturday I went to Osaka, to vote in finnish election. I met few finnish people who had been living various ti

      • Some days after the last post
        04/07/11
        Monday:

        I got a ride from my roommate to the 東灘区役所(Higashi-Nada Regional Office (or city hall if you will)), where I applied at the Alien registration. After that I was told I should also join the 国民健康保険(Japanese National Health Insurance), which I did, and which cos

      • Day after arrival
        04/02/11
        After the long flight (about 18 hours if I remember right) I arrived to Japan 1.4.2011 about 8 am. From there I took train to Osaka, where I changed to train to Kobe.

        The weather was sunny and the scenery I saw from train was nice. One thing that I found interesting was the small farming

    • March
      • 2 Days Before Trip
        03/29/11
        The process which was needed to get into student exchange is certainly long, but now it's finally coming to an end and the flight date is closing in.

        Few weeks before I got my visa and thought everything was going as planned, yeah. The same week's friday earthquakes hit and caus