Imagine hordes of Samurai sieging this castle... well it actually never happened, but wouldn't it have been cool?Himeji is the closest "real" city to Tatsuno. It's about a 20 minute train ride and has totally been my saving grace. It's got restaurants (I even found a Mediterranean Restaurant!), decent shopping (some cool vintage stores, record shops, and the shoes, my god, the shoes), and a big huge castle looming over the background at all times.
Since Himeji is my gateway to the rest of Japan (transfer here for Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo), I've been here a few times. One of the best visits was the tour of the castle, which is about 9 stories high (and each floor is about 25' high), has a huge garden/moat area, and a cool period museum in it:
Check out how small the people are compared to the castle. I nearly passed out climbing to the top of the main keep.The coolest part was, the day we visited the castle, they were setting up for a concert on the castle grounds to happen that night (cool). Unfortunately it was a J-Pop show (lame), so we didn't buy the 5,000 yen ($1 = 100 yen) tickets. Nonetheless, how cool would it be to see Phish play Himeji Castle?! "Yah bro I ate some heady ganja gooballs at the castle show and I totally thought I was, like, in a samurai movie man." I'm going to see what it takes to book the castle grounds for the night. Maybe we can get Supreme to DJ, eh?
2 comments:
Hi,
This is from my mom (isn't she rad?):
I love that castle. I thought that was a 4' tall story castle.
and, mike, i want this to be on blog, but i cannot do an account yet for
comments.
mom
Dr. F. Shu
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Employment Relations
SUNY Potsdam
Potsdam, NY 13676
Dude that castle looks awesome. Did you get to look inside? I had no idea those castle sat so high. You can only gather so much from the miniature model at Japantown in SF.
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