Well….wow. I mean, really. The final full day of the tour was a veritable feast of Yuri.  We started the day with breakfast at a famous fruit parlor for breakfast, because ice cream and fruit is definitely breakfast of champions. From there, we all made our way out to the Girls Love Festival, where predictably, […]

Saturday was one of the most physically demanding days of my entire life. And I didn’t *do* anything!  We started the day at the Hanazono Shrine in Shinjuku, where I waxed poetic about Hana no Askua-gumi and the girl-gang aesthetic of the 1980s-1990s.  We then headed out to Nakano, where we got together with Kat […]

It’s been a busy couple of days here for the tour and part of it was on the road. Having got all comfy in our hotel, we packed up and headed for Kamakura, where we visited locations that featured in Aoi Hana / Sweet Blue Flowers. We had lunch in the cafe that was the […]

Today was a shopping intensive day for the tour – we had places to get to! Our first stop was Harajuku, for some shopping. Katherine and Amy started us off with a visit to Alice on Wednesday, a lovely little Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass themed store, where everyone picked up important items like […]

Hello and welcome to a story you did not expect to read. ^_^  The day we left for Toyko a major typhoon hit, so the first day of the tour was spent stranded in Narita. The trains were not running because there had been damage to the tracks. We still have no idea why the […]