Sunday, February 12, 2017

Winter time part 1

I arrived to Nagoya on 18th of December and had to wait in the airport around hour or so for a friend to arrive from Korea. While waiting police or security person from the airport came to ask questions why I was there and if I could speak Japanese and where I was heading, he even asked where I worked. I understand why but I kind of felt funny to get spotted by security person for no real reason.

After friend had arrived we headed towards to bus stop where we entered to bus which was headed to Osaka where we would stay a week. It would be longest time I would stay in Osaka. Mostly I would stay for a day or two. Once almost a week or so.

19th and 20th of December went by with the GazettE's lives in Orix Theater.  I remember weather being nice enough but there were cold wind. As for the lives I had lots of fun in them. Ruki saying he looked like samurai which was true. He even acted so that he had imaginary samurai sword. He did the 'bang' shooting thing towards audience and also each of the band members. 19th day Kai made a mistake during a beginning of the song which led it to be stopped before starting again. 20th day it was Aoi's turn to made a mistake which also led to stopping there and starting all over again. (laughs)
Even the seats weren't that great in Osaka, I don't care. Both lives were definitely fun and I will have great memories from them.

Also went to see exhibition of the GazettE's members guitars and bass. It was cool to see the instruments up close. To a friend, I'm sorry for dragging you there XD

There was third and fourth the GazettE live during the trip. Both of those were bit outside of Osaka in Wakayama and Kobe.
Wakayama was quite small place When Kobe was huge and had few different floors.During Wakayama live Ruki came to stare at me quite often and even smiled at me.
In Kobe they did second encore and Ruki had santa jacket on him. It was cute! He offered it to Uruha who instantly declined. It would have been too much fun to see Uruha wearing it (laughs) Even staff had santa hats or reindeer ears. I'm glad I got friend to come one of these lives because it is quite different from how they do it in overseas.

After friend had came back from her trip to see Lynch.(..It was in Okinawa...right?) we went to spent the event somewhere and ended up going to to ferris wheel Hep-five. Funny thing about this is that it is placed top of a building.

We spent kind of typical Japanese Christmas. We got a cake slices for both of us and since we needing something to warm us a bit up tea from Starbucks..

Talking about Starbucks, it reminded me of one time we sat outside of Starbuck in Osaka drinking some cold drink. At least I did (laughs) There sat also two Japanese males close to us. They started talking that how can we drink something cold and doesn't we freeze because of it. We just had so much fun acting as we don't understand and try to listen what they were talking about if it was about us and chat about our own stuff in between.

I don't remember what day I went to shopping but I forgot my necklaces at home I was angry at myself for forgetting them. I bought couple necklace and now I love the other one. It's typical ring in a chain but with a twist.



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Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi


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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

the GazettE in Finland 2016





Like so often friends and I met at the train station and went to eat right away. We ate some Vietnam food. Can't remember the name of the food but it was delicious anyway. After eating we finished birthday cards for Uruha and Reita before heading out to search some gifts for the band.


I don't remember much of live itself but I had lots of fun and went crazy. There weren't really any MCs during the live or any fan service they show in Japan shows. There was one where Ruki went next to Uruha and Uruha leaned in to be more closer to Ruki. In the end all that matter was that it was fun evening and band seemed to have fun as well.

In Suicide Circus and Filth in the beauty audience sang most part of the songs which was really fun to hear. At times even Ruki's voice couldn't be heard because of so many people singning but only for short time. In the Headache man it was amazing to see people actually jumping and jumping and turning around and doing furis. It was almost whole row just before bar side of the area. Many seemed to headbang which is proper thing to do when it comes to the GazettE (chuckles) There was one girl between me and friend who seemed to copy furis from us. It's totally okay. Rare people know furis or even have chance to go to the GazettE's live(s) in Japan.
It took us long time to get them back to the stage but they came. It was great to hear people actually shouting for 'encore' instead of 'we want more'. I know they mean the same but when it comes to the Japanese bands, I really like more of word 'encore' Even me and friend started at least couple encore shouts. In beginning of encore when band came back to the stage Uruha saw those two banners wishing him happy birthday what were held high by people who were closer to stage. Uruha's smile grew huge and it was open mouth smile and he showed thumb up. There should be our names in one of these banners. I'm not sure where but they are there.





Aoi: Helsinkiの皆様、今日は本当にありがとう!またこの国に、この会場に帰ってこれて嬉しいです。そしてまた、いつものこの場所で楽しい夜を過ごしましょう!

Reita: Thanks Helsinki! Lovely to meet you!! It was great. You?? See you next time. Good night.

Ruki Thanx #helsinki @the Circus. It was very exciting show🤘 But...I couldn't take a photo😭 My bad⤵️ I regret that I couldn't take photos of all shows.

Ruki:トラブルも沢山ありましたが、楽しめたよヘルシンキ。ありがとう。 次はワールドツアーラストの地、モスクワ。 悔い残さずいきます。

Kai: ヘルシンキお疲れ様でした。

Some sort of set list. Person said that some songs might be wrognly placed.
Nihil
Dogma
Rage
Vortex
Fadeless
Gabriel on the gallows
Bizarre
Dripping Insanity
Ominous
The Suicide Circus
Incubus
Ugly
Undying
Filth in the beauty

Encore:
Headache Man
Cockroach
Tomorrow Never Dies

It was really great to meet the band and exchange few words with them and wish happy birthday to Uruha in person. All of them welcomed us warmly and will definitely will be going again to meet them face to face if there is ever a chance.
All this still feels really unreal to me but I'm happy this happened. It is my 10th year of being a fan and it was 28th time to see them live. There will be more the GazettE lives to go to, that's something I can promise.


Kuva, jonka Aoi The GazettE (@gazette__aoi) julkaisi

Kuva, jonka Aoi The GazettE (@gazette__aoi) julkaisi

Last summer in Munich

Year 2015 

I have never been in Germany before but friend and I decided to go there of all places. I'm sure if I had went with another friend there, we would have been so lost at what we needed to do (laughs) It was huge help the friend who I went with was already familiar with the country but not sure if she had been Munich before.

As our flight was early in the morning at 8am in 21st of July 2015, I stayed at friend's place.  Have I ever mentioned that I'm not morning person, with that said it was pain to wake up at 5am for the flight.

As we arrived to Munich it was nice to actually have summer like weather instead of less than 20C and rain and windy days. It was +30C and slightly cloudy.  Dragging our luggages around wasn't helping and as we finally arrived to hotel, we were more than glad to be able take a breath and cool down.  After about a hour or so, we left to city again. Roaming around and shopping and getting something to eat. Restaurant where we ended up was Chinese.  Food was fine but the sauce was way too sweet, couldn't eat it.  I've never spent that much money on a first day in vacation as I did in Munich.

Second day we walked nearby mall, it was around 30mins walk away or so.  It was nice to just roam around Munich and see it more but it wasn't such a good idea to walk because it was still hot day and sun was shining from clear sky.  We ate breakfast there and then took metro to English garden.  At the English garden we also roamed around but decided to go lastly to Chinese tower.  It was great! 
Almost all tables which were located in shadows were taken but we found a table for us as well. Also, lots of people were drinking beer, even when they had kids with them.

Third day the main thing was go to restaurants and window shop and get souvenirs  we promised to bring with us. I had never been before in Hard rock cafe. It was nice experience and food was good, even when it's bit high priced.  I tried alcohol drink called Electric Blues, it was nice but will try something else next time. After that we took our time to roam and we ended up to Starbucks where tried Vanilla Lemon. We stayed there chatting around hour or two or maybe even three.

Fourth and fifth day went by just doing some shopping we wanted to bring to ourselves and searching certain thing for friend parents. I actually almost got to renew my wardrobe. On the last day we almost got lost in the city since we weren't paying attention where we were going as we talked with each other. It was luckily easy enough to get back where we left and knew our way around.


It had been rainy summer in Finland and it was great to get away from it for a short time and relax under the sun. I actually burned my hairline again.  I guess I seriously should start wearing hats in summer...
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Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi

Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi

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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Let's make our love reach Fixer

Hi everyone!!

I'm gathering names and countries for visual kei band named Fixer to let them know of foreign fans they have overseas.

You will have time to take a part till 28th of July midnight in Japan time.

All I need is name or a nickname you want to use and country you live in.

I will be giving the card in 29th of July show.


You can take a part in here or comment to my twitter

Fixer [孤慟 -into the vortex-] MV 

Monday, July 20, 2015

Tomorrow

Hello!
I will soon be going to catch my train towards Helsinki. Not that I'm going to get off at Helsinki...Non the less, I will be staying at friend's house for the night and early in the morning will go to the airport.
As usually, I won't most likely be updating while I'm there but we never know if after all I will.

For this trip I had to buy new travelling bag, since in last trip tires blew out of my travelling bag....It was well used and lasted about 8 trips both ways and lots of weight.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Friday 13



Amaranthe at Rytmikorjaamo, Seinajoki, Finland

Friday 13, 2015

Before leaving towards Rytmikorjaamo, I took my sweet time preparing and getting ready. As I arrived to concert place it was already past 20:30. Doors were opened at 20:00. At first, I didn't go the place where I ended up being in the Amaranthe's live right away, just roamed around and checked merch table. It was still good 20 minutes before first band.

At the time lights went out people turned their eyes towards the main stage. Cypher 16 were starting. I did wanted to see Cypher 16 as well because what I had seen from youtube, they had sounded pretty ok band.  As their live went longer people started slowly moving towards the stage. Something I really like about Rytmikorjaamo, there aren't many lives where crowd just goes right away to front row, you can just chill around the place and go toilet in peace knowing you will get nice place in the end if you want. At the Cypher 16 live, I was around 4th to 10th row places, if you imagine  the rows which werent even there...only 2 first rows, tell the truth. Other people were scattered around the place.
Cypher 16 vocalist tried us to shout but it turned out to be pretty bad. It just gave me good laughs.  They tried again with bit better success but it was still bad....then vocalist said, that he will try again later which he certainly did. At the time it was ok enough but you could see from the vocalist face that he wasn't pleased. In the end vocalist still took photo of  the crowd. It's in his instagram.

After Cypher 16 ended crowd started to get closer to main stage more, which it had done throught the Cypher 16 live. Next was Liquid Society but they were playing backroom stage....umm, well, it was right and back if you look at it from the stage. Didn't really heard anything from them, at times some noise but didn't paid any attention.

Both lives were short and Amaranthe started at 22:30. Their intro was funny if you started to listen what it said. It was something about some big bang machine which had some proper other name...and some people were to send from the future to sabotage the machine....and so on. Pretty sure it will be found from youtube.

I haven't found proper setlist yet but I know and remember few of the songs they played. And weird stuff they did. ... well, mainly only  their black haired male, the bassist. He was so hammered. (drunk for those who doesn't know what hammered means.) At some point when one of their vocalists was talking, guy with short hair...well, bald...He was talking something about how we weren't drunk enough and then their bassist comes to him and acts like he wants to say something. I have no idea what he babled and whole crowd kept silent as well.  I guess no one really understood him. Even the vocalist looked like 'wait what?!' as he didn't understood either. Bassist walked away and vocalsti turned back to the crowd stating "Even he is more drunk than you are!"

When encore was starting, hammered bassist walked to the stage and made his stomach big. At the middle of the stage he placed finnish beer bottle front of his stomach and noise 'bob' type.  Turning towards crowd. "Listen to this." Kneeling down and placing beer bottle on the ground and helding mic next to it...yes, he seriously made us listen the sound of Karhu (bear) beer bottle being opened. Fancy.... Then he mumbled again something while people were giving him questionable gazes...Suddenly he started talking more clearly and made us shout for more when he moved his finger and then how long we could shout. 

We got to sing Amaranthine and it felt and sounded amazing. Even the band seemed really pleased of our singing. Added my video of that. 


Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi







From Amaranthe's FB/Twitter:

Thank you Seinäjoki for our sold out show! 10/10!

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Never been before

In July I will be going with a friend I met in Japan for the first time to Munich, Germany. I have never been in Munich or Germany. Haven't had a chance to travel when I was younger. Only did some trips inside of Finland when I was a kid.

There is no concerts or events where we will be going but you never know if something turns up.
As for the trip, plane tickets and hotel are already booked but since I've never been in Germany, I wonder... What kind of places would be good to visit.

Will be staying in Munich for a week 21.07.2015-27.07.2015.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Travelling soon again!

In middle of last month was one fan club ticket selling for the GazettE's newest tour DOGMATIC -UN- & -DUE- . Dogmatic -un- tour will be held in autumn and Dogmatic -due- will be held in winter.
It took about a month to get the confirmation whether you got the tickets or not. Personally, I got all the tickets I wanted to (^∇^) Even got a friend to come with me, unless she finds something better to do on the day. She isn't really a fan of them anyways but I want to introduce so said proper the GazettE to her. The lives they did on World tour weren't really anything good. No, I don't mean I didn't enjoy of them but the fact that in Japan their lives are around 2 hours to 2 and half instead of hour and half tops.
I wonder if I will be able to see familiar faces. I sure hope I won't meet those 2 annoying girls who are making bad reputation of us western fans by acting rude towards other westerns and asian people.



There is another trip coming soon but will not say anything about it, since it is still in middle of planning.

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Sukekiyo in Finland



It was full surprise to hear Sukekiyo coming to Europe. Band haven't been existing long but surely being Dir en Grey's Kyo's solo project, band would get attention. 
As for me, I never have been fan of Dir en Grey, even though I do listen them at rare times and seen them few times live.

The day was surprising warm to be September. Since, I had VIP ticket to the show, I had to arrive earlier. There were around 10 VIPs and it seemed not many had heard about the VIP tickets. I can't complain because most of us talked with each other, even when most of us didn't knew each other.

We got in hour or so before regulars. VIPs bought whatever they wanted and left jackets and bags to cloakroom.  Also, we got VIP passes, randomly chosen polaroid and cd with autographs. Polaroids were taken by Kyo... and well, you can see he did used his free will to take random photos.
While waiting permission to go upstairs, where the stage area was staff lady talked with us, mostly only questions. She did ask who were Dir en Grey fan and who was fan of Kyo. I laughed finding it little to notice that I seemed to be only fan of long time disbanded band Rentrer en Soi. As I stated that to friend who was with me, merchandise table lady gave me surprised gaze.





In the stage area, we didn't had to wait long till band members started to come to the stage. They played 2 or 3 songs while just chilling on the stage  in their own clothes and checking if their equipments were working right. Many of us had been talking whether Kyo would show up at all or not, because when Dir en grey had been doing VIP thing, such as taking photos with fans; Kyo had been missing whole time. At first it was only members who played their instrument but eventually to our surprise Kyo walked on stage wearing green sweater. 
Before they walked away, Kyo took good look at us and sort of greeted us. I don't remember if he said something like "oi" "hi" etc... or was it just greeting with movement of his head. Kind of like single nod. Please tell me if you know proper name for it. We greeted back..partially, cause it was also amusing us. Such a special treat from Kyo.

One thing I was truly surprised was the fact that people in crowd weren't pushing at all. It was easy to enjoy whole live from the first row.  I hope this kind of act would continue but I have doubts... 

Through the live there, weren't any speaks, that I can remember at least. Last thing Kyo said before live came to end was good night in Japanese. "oyasuminasai."
I did enjoy the live, I could even say it was better than those Dir en Grey lives I have went to but then again both of these are different kind of music. And, I'm not fan of the other one.

Set list:
destrudo
elisabeth addict
aftermath
latour
nine melted fiction
the daemon's cutlery
Intermission
ameagari no yuushi
hidden one
zephyr
scars like velvet
hemimetabolism
uyuu no sora
304 goushitsu, shita to yoru
vandal
madaraningen
kugui
mama
Encore:
in all weathers

Takumi's official blog
  





From Sukekiyo's official twitter



Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Last entry for now. Till next time~

Sorry for really late last entry about latest trip to Japan.

Few days before leaving Japan behind went to Kyoto for a day. It was going to be quite busy day, even in the end it felt like we could just easily roam around Kyoto in peace.
First went to Scenery train in Saga Torokko Station, one way cost 600yen. Sure it was quite a lot for one way ride. I don't remember how long the ride was but sceneries were nice. Sad to say that it wasn't as quite impressive as I thought it would be. Maybe the reason for it was that I live in country where are normally lots of trees and forests and rivers/lakes. I would like to go on it again but only in Sakura time.


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Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi


Because we didn't bought both ways train ticket we ended up in middle of fields. It was peaceful feeling to be out of the city for a moment. There were no constant noise and you could easily see far away.
We took JR train back to Saga Torokko, just because wanted to visit Bamboo forest. Only minus for it was that there were few cars driving by in already narrow roads. It ended quite fast but I could enjoy it. Haven't never walked next to living bamboos which was nice experience.

Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi

Last but not least place was Inari shrine and Torii gates. It was quite late when we arrived, it had gotten darker. I had read that in around the middle of Torii gates you wish you wouldn't have gone there. That it was long but in the end it didn't even felt long. I truly enjoyed walking through it.
As friend and I were walking through Torii gates it had started to drop few rain drops and slowly getting bigger. Soon it was pouring rain. We had to laugh, it was so our luck that in some point in Kyoto it would start raining. I had said in some former entries when I were in Golden pavilion that there would always rain something, whether it was rain or lightly snowing.
Finally making through Torii gates we had soaked socks but it didn't matter much. In Japan it can be warm weather even when it is raining but in my country, most of the cases when it rains it also gets colder.

Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi

Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi

Monday, November 24, 2014

Happiest horror day

Something what I have been planning and wanting to go and do for a long time happened in last trip. Fuji-Q Highland. The Road there was quite a long and part of the road felt like it was middle of nowhere. But like the name already says Fuji, the amusement park is really close to mountain Fuji.

It was past 12 o'clock as we arrived. And, cause of that we were in a bit of hurry. While buying the entrance ticket, there were so called time table in visible of how long lines were. Quickly pondering the things we wanted to try out. 1st thing was must Haunted Hospital.



Just by looking from outside, the building was really well made. It really looked like it had been there for years empty. The reason besides it was must go was the fact that line was ridiculous long.... We had to wait 3 hours to get in!!! It even started to rain pouring down for a most part of the lining time, lucky us knew that rain might happen so, we had umbrellas with us..but think of big  amount of other people having umbrellas with them.... it was hard to keep yourself from getting wet.
As we finally could enter we had soaking wet shoes but for some reason it didn't bother us at all. I was far too anxious to get in the house.
10 different sizes groups were taken in at the same time but if you were alone, you couldn't enter or if your group were bigger than size 6, one of your group members had to be left behind.
There were introduction of rules inside before getting the scary part, and yes they had it even in English...but yeah it was piece of laminated paper.
I'm not going to tell much about the place in case someone is planning to go there, etc.
There were narrow corridors and corners and empty rooms, which were part of covered with curtains. There even were holes in a walls where someone could come and grab your leg... I have never ever laughed like a nutcase and screamed at the same time. It felt like I was going to have a heart attack middle of it. (NOTICE: It is allowed to quit middle of the way if it gets too much for someone)  I wanted to go whole way, even it felt it was going to be too much. It also felt like I was part of horror movie which I knew was fake.
 There were couple other groups we alternate who went first. Group of two younger girls and bigger group of foreigners (6 or 5 persons) and us...in total 3 groups. We ended up finishing the Haunted Hospital together.


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Next was Fujiyama Roller Coaster.  It was already late evening when managed to get in line for this but this time line was much more shorter.  And as the time went on while waiting it started to get foggy. The fog had this burned scent in it, most likely it came from the mountain Fuji. I guess.
Fujiyama had been the world fastest roller coaster back in a day. There were this World Record plate placed on the wall.
As the line got shorter, thought started to ran through my head. 'Was this such a good idea..?' It was really foggy and you couldn't see where you were going.
As we were waiting it get higher and higher...it visibly was not such a good idea, top height was 79M from the ground till it started to drop down with a really fast speed. Never ever have my mouth been dry after screaming... but I was and still am really happy that I went both of these places. Maybe I will go once again there but to different ones. Only time will tell.


Rilakkuma x Tower Records Cafe

From July 10 to August 17, Shibuya Tower Records Cafe were helding Rilakkuma theme.  When I first heard of this, I instantly wanted to go and try it, at least once.
First day when I tried to get in to cafe in the Shibuya's Tower Records building, only 1st floor was open and highest as well. I'm not 100% sure what was the reason why upper floors were closed but just to amuse ourselves we went to highest floor without actually taking notice what was in it...  (^^;) There were the exhibition going on about Alice nine. I don't remember the entrance price for sure but it was something like 500yen. Since I'm not anymore interested of Alice nine, I didn't even wanted to go in.

Another sunny and hot day, it were decided to give another shot for the cafe and as arriving to 1st floor, for my enjoyment people could enter once again to the Rilakkuma Cafe.



It was around midday we went there but had to wait to get in because cafe was full, even it didn't seem so. What I mean that there were quite a few free seats but maybe staff wanted to keep customers privacy  and not get anyone too close or something... Next to the entrance door there was placed HUGE Rilakkuma sitting in a chair. (It looked like fat lazy ass teddy bear.lolol)
Anyway, the wait was around 15mins to 30mins, not too long. As staff member guided us to table, she said that we had only 1 hour time to enjoy and eat.

It was so cute looking around the cafe.
I bought peach ice tea and these two lovely things. Don't remember exact prices but paid in total around 2500yen Quite expensive but it was worth of it. Both of those were delicious!


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Kuva, jonka Urtsi (@urtsihell) julkaisi



Sunday, November 9, 2014

Changes in weather.

Around end of July till mid August there were typhoon warning going around but it wasn't in area where I was. Luckily. It was typhoon Halong.
It wasn't first time for me to experience typhoon. Areas where I was had only lots of rain coming down and wind since it was further away from the area where it would hit.
Worst wheather what I got from typhoon Halong was when I traveled to Hamamatsu one day. They had promised pouring rain but in the end it didn't rain almost at all but it sure was windy. In the evening around 10PM I left Hamamatsu and it sitll didn't rain much but after getting back to Tokyo I saw next morning photo which was taken from a car. Rain was pouring big time down somewhere between Hamamatsu and Tokyo. I'm happy I could survive in one piece from that. It could have been  a lot worse.

In Finland we don't have typhoons or earthquakes. So, all those were new to me back in a day when I first time came to Japan. We just have 4 different seasons... and I hate the longest one.

First time experiencing typhoon was back in a July 2011. At the time it was much closer to Tokyo and could feel the wind blowing from right and left and forward and also from behind. It was really hard at times to keep umbrella straight.
Bad weather in that trip started when road was taking me and friends to Osaka. It did rain almost constantly as we stayed in Osaka for a week.
Also, in July I experienced first earthquake. It was the very last night before we would leave Tokyo behind and go back to Finland.  I woke up as the house was shaking, the first thing I thought were 'Who is shaking the bed???' and 'Why are walls moving??' it took me awhile because of my slumber to realize it was earthquake. We laughed about it in the morning

In March 2011 there were big tsunami as most of you know (Tohoku earthquake) which made me nervous and anxious if it even was possible to go to Japan in summer but I did get to go and so I did later in 2011.

I went back to Japan December and stayed till next year. Nothing too interesting happened but as I was leaving Harajuku, I was surprised that other side of the station's platforms were closed...Yes, the side which I should had been going. I had to made my way to other train and go longer way back to hotel where I was staying with friends. I don't remember how many magnitudes there were but it wasn't small. What is surprising in this, is that I never felt it and, because of that I was surprised to see what happened in Harajuku's train station.

November-December 2012 I was staying month in Kunitachi. Yeah, it was further away from Tokyo, Japanese person would say it is country side. (took 30min to Shinjuku and to Tokyo 45min by train) Don't remember exact date but it was around 5AM to 5:30AM as I felt eartquake which wasn't small. It woke me up and since it was quite big and seemed to last long time...well, at least for me who isn't used to such a things.  One of my thoughts were something along like 'Is it tsunami all over again?!'
After it ended, I fell quite quick asleep again but woke about 30-40 minutes later as earth shook again. This ended up getting me even more nervous but since it was far smaller, I hoped it would end up being after shocks of the Tohoku earthquake which the news were talking about that those would happen for a long time till after the Tohoku earthquake.
Later as friend and I woke up, we looked in the news and saw that there had been 1 meter high tsunami in somewhere above Tokyo but more closer to Sendai prefecture.

Monday, October 13, 2014

Back in Tokyo

After leaving Nagoya and arriving to Tokyo (29 July), first thing we did was head to hotel where we were staying. It was much better than Nagoya's own but to our surprise the room we stayed in was quite small. We even thought that maybe we should change the place to somewhere else but first we gave a try for this place. In the end we stayed there whole time. And, yes I know Japanese houses are usually smaller than western style houses/rooms. Room was in top floor and of course there were no elevator...I hate to drag luggages in narrow stairs!

Even the numerous times I have been in Japan, this was first time I saw rockabillys. It was interesting to say at least. I was surprised by the fact that there was one younger kid among them. He wasn't left in shadows of older rockabillys.
As well went to imperial palace in Tokyo for the first time. It was pretty but burning hot day wasn't such a nice when walking in area covered with small rocks and one line of asphalt without trees to give any kind of shadow.


Ladataan
Tokyo; Imperial palace #imperialpalace #tokyo #japan #palace #travel


Soon was about to be second live of the GazettE 31 July at Tsutaya O-EAST and third the GazettE live was tour final 4 August at Studio Coast.
Both lives were great and won't regret going in them.
Only thing I wonder a bit is the fact that in March tour final there were video cameras and once again in this tour final there were cameras too. Will they release something after last and third HERESY only tour will end? or will it those videos be for their own personal use...?

Tsutaya O-EAST. Photo taken by the GazettE staff.

Studio Coast. Photo taken by the GazettE staff.

In the tour final live there were on display the GazettE's newest collaboration with Walkman products. 

Couple days before the HERESY tour was coming to end there was announcement but this time it only included vocalist, Ruki from the band. He was releasing brand named [VITAL MATERIAL] and there were going to be exhibition for the stuff on 9 and 10 of August. 
Exhibition got my attention soon as I saw it because it had been too long since I've done anything like this and being a the GazettE fan I wanted to go. 
The area where exhibition was held was small but they let in only small number of people stay in the area. As soon as some left, new people were let in...and so on. Because of that it easy to explore what kind of stuff there was. There were all the cosmetic stuff on show, all the bottles and such. Front of those bottles were smaller glass bottles which held inside cotton ball with the scent of the products. Going around and smelling out every cotton ball there was, I only came to one conclusion which was that I would love to buy all of those, even they were quite expensive. 
[Official site:] http://vitalmaterial.com/ 
More photos of the show in my instagram account.



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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Nagoya road trip

It hadn't been long time since last trip to Japan and once again I set foot on the plane which took me to Japan, but this time didn't flew to Tokyo. Instead flew to Nagoya where was planned to stay few nights.
Friend and I arrived to Nagoya on 26th of July, and we took a risk by choosing not so good hostel to stay at. It turned out to be pretty nice with few minuses. Air condition didn't work properly but we had two fans also which made it rather ok.
On the day we set foot in Japan was really hot day, really humid and hot, close to 38C or maybe even slightly above it. Too hot even for Japanese people. Such a nice way to start vacation, right? (laughs) Had to took shower at least couple times on that day.

Still remember how feet were burning through the shoes while waiting traffic lights to turn green. And got my only sunburn on the way to hostel. It is and still is slightly seen as a tanned skin close to my shoulder.

Next day was pretty much roaming around the city and seeing Nagoya better. Surely been in Nagoya before but this time we actually stayed there longer than a daytime. We were already outside of the hostel at 8AM. Still to this day I can't understand how we did it because second day is always hardest to get up and get going. Jet lag but this time there was none.
Even when we had left outside early, we came back to hostel around 6 to 8PM
Originally second day plans were different but we talked about it and agreed it was better if we changed them and not go to Osaka or Kyoto yet.

Third day was something I was waiting for, it was once again time for the GazettE live but this time they would play songs from albums Stacked Rubbish and DIM. Goods selling was actually held inside of the live arena which was great decision in that weather. Also, it was good that other days weren't as hot as first one was. Usually weather would reach 33C on days and on nights 26/27C


Actually taken in Tokyo but same photo nonetheless. 

Caught Kai's drumstick. I'm happy~!

Photo taken by the GazettE staff.

The GazettE - HERESY LIMITED STANDING LIVE TOUR14- PULSE WRIGGLING TO DIM SCENE ZEPP NAGOYA 28-07 unofficial set list

01 Hakuri ( 剥離 )
02 The invisible wall
03 Leech
04 Cockroach 
05 Mob 136 Bars
06 Before I decay
07 Ganges ni akai bara ( ガンジスに紅い薔薇 )
08 Shiroki yuutsu( 白き憂鬱 )
09 Nakigahara ( 泣ヶ原 )
10 Dim scene
11 13 Stairs[-]1
12 A Moth Under the Skin
13 In The Middle Of Chaos
14 Headache man
15 OGRE
16 Linda ~Candydive Pinky Heaven~
17 Kantou dogeza kumiai ( 関東土下座組合 )

ENCORE
E01 Ride with the rockers
E02 Ruder
E03 Discharge

Day after the the GazettE live we traveled to Tokyo where we would stay till we would leave Japan behind. For some odd reason it seems almost every time next morning after the GazettE live I've to travel somewhere, either it's inside in Japan or to airport.