bullet ski trip at Echigo-Yuzawa

snow. 

Harajuku - Shinagawa - Koenji - Kawatacho

first visit to Hara museum in Shinagawa,
saw some renowned works of Nobuyoshi Araki and Yoshitomo Nara there

A "Kitana-shuran" tavern in Koenji I've longed for going !!! 

went to Seiichi Yamamoto's show in UFO club in Higashi Koenji,
coincidentally saw the frontman and bassist from Yura Yura Teikoku
and Keigo Oyamada a.k.a Cornelius there.

Ogasawara Hakushaku Tei,  fancy spanish style old housing

Dessert tasted great too. loved the place. :) 

Kuroiso

In this small town in Tochigi prefecture, there is a district which loads of small stores, galleries, vintage furniture store, cafe, second hand book store and so on. which amazed me.

Little Edo trip in Kawagoe

i read the book about Fredrich Nietzsche today so i hereby quote:

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. 

these freezing days.

SATURDAY : first snowing day in tokyo. 

SUNDAY: baked cocoa cookies for valentine's day

MONDAY : went to national museum to see surrealism exhibition. 

it was very crowded which made us exhausted.  

but a cup of hot LISA rasberry latte healed me.

Ote's Bday @ Watami

a hidden village in the deep mountains of Nasu

There is this legend that Tengu, 

a long-nosed goblin in Japan 

brought this secret place

 in the heart of snow-covered mountains..

old fashioned train in Kuroiso, Tochigi

had to walk this snow-covered road for about 10 min. to get the lodge.

gradually getting visible the figure of the place and the huge dam on the back.

just like the world of Spirted Away..

mysterious small shrine

so easily get lost, it is like a Ninja hideout.

this place is also known that Yoshiharu Tsuge also had visited..  

two cats in the lodge, walking around.

there's also a big "Swimming Pool" and even a slide outside! 

leaving lodge.

it seems buses are not very useful here.. 2 times a day.

finally back in Kuroiso station,
had a cup of coffee.
it seems everything was just a daydream.