The kodokan house in Kairakuen park:
How lovely.
We bumped into Mitochan (the child of Mito) the mascot of Mito city.
A very traditional japanese lunch:
Can you identify any of these items?:
In the Second course we had our own traditional rice cookers:
This guys a big deal in ibaraki- but who can remember his name?:
Senba lake:
We visited the shrine of Yoshikawa family (my supervisors family) we lit incense and poured water onto the statues:
Then we visited a massive giant statue- there's a legend about seashells and a giants hand- that's all I can tell you:
How come this Mitochan chick has blonde hair????? Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful places, I had better improve my watercolour tecniques (er, dont have any yet) so I can paint all these fab places and amazing plants.
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Yes, I still hope to come to Japan, so get used to the idea!