Early morning I visited one of Nagoya's Temples



And returned to Osaka, after visiting the hotel, washing, changing and all, I took off to eat lunch and find the venue for MIYAVI!!



This one was very easy to find... but since I already had all the merch I wanted I didn't really have anything to do around the venue so I walked around the neighborhood ... I also saw MIYAVI's mini tour bus xD stopped behind the venue... later I met some friends I made in Okinawa outside the venue and we stayed there talking...

People kept coming in/out taking photos etc etc and at one moment while we were standing outside the entrance to the venue's restaurant/bar thing some ladies with an old lady came to get in.. we were actually standing in the path and since the old woman couldn't really move that freely we moved around saying sorry to let them pass ... and at that moment I have to say that yes I did totally suspect who they could be....

And we got in!! Again even with a horrible number I found my way to the 3-4irsh row in the right side... but this concert was not the same with all the others at all!!
Even with the first songs playing the atmosphere had gotten totally hot and tight
sometime later I found myself packed tight in the middle of the stage in 3rd row o.O
People jumping dancing ! All stuck together and hoot!
It was so fun lol and the first time I experienced that in a live in Japan ...
さすが MIYAVI xD
Also the first time I saw a fan being carried off because of almost fainting in Japan o.o a boy too!
At one point MIYAVi introduced us all to his Grandmother!!! (yes I was right from before xD) to Our Grandmother!! He talked a bit to her she couldn't hear some parts...~ and he told the guy standing next to her(with spiky hair and alot of piercing) to look out for her lol and MIYAVI sang a song for her "Love Me Tender"! awww

Set List:
(stolen from FC Bulletin >.<)
01 SURVIVE
02 コインロッカーズベイビー
03 おっさんおっさん俺なんぼ
04 BOOM-HAH-BOOM-HAH-HAH
05 21st Century 東京Blues
MC
06 君に願いを
07 Wat's My Name?
08 プリーズ、プリーズ、プリーズ。
-new songs corner-
09 REVENGE
10 UNBREAKABLE
11 GRAVITY
11.5 Love Me Tender
MC
12 ククル
13 SUPER HERO
14 エキセントリック大人病
15 勝利のV-ROCK!!
16 ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?
-EN-
17 素晴らしきかな、この世界 -WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD-
MC
18 咲き誇る華の様に -Neo Visualizm-
19 Girls be ambitious


At the end , before he left the stage people around me even fell down from the "pushing" I think you could call it... but more like excitement lol
I almost fell down too >.< thankfully people around immediately pulled them up them and nothing bad happened.
Concert was sold out too.Yay!

Something fun that also happened... during the time he usually comes out with his iPhone and films everyone after a second glance I realized he was holding something else...
A shaving machine!
He shaved off part of Koba's hair!
and told us to wait for the full results in the next day's concert in Kyoto ^^



After the concert we went with some Co-miyavi I met in Okinawa to eat dinner together and I was treated to Okonomiyaki~~! YUm! <3


We also planned to meet the next day to sightsee Kyoto before the concert together.

(Let's try to get this over with, it's gotten ridiculous... since I hadn't typed anything up for the last 3 days while in Japan it was kinda harder remembering and writing what happened 5 months ago -_-)

April 10th morning found me in a shinkansen going to Tokyo from Osaka, arrived early noon.
Went around shinjuku and also visited The closet child store there... the amount of cash money I had had really shrank and I was left with only a few thousand yen and my credit card... so I asked a kind Japanese visual kei fan in Closet child if I could pay for her stuff with my credit card and she could give me the amount in cash!
realy glad for the even small Japanese ability I had!
Ate lunch at a department's restaurant floor at a tempura place... (2 salaryman behind me were soo surprised when I turned around and they saw I wasn't Japanese... like "wow I so thought she was Japaneseビックリした" >.< in Japanese eh... I actually didn't mind that lol being taken for Japanese even just from behind :D

After Shinjuku I hopped on the train and headed to Odaiba to see Alice Nine yeahh!!
in the train some old Japanese man started talking to me in english o.O I was really surprised, apparently he wanted me to help him a bit with his english xD he was also surprised when I answered to him in Japanese >.<
anyway I kind of had trouble finding Zepp Tokyo but in the end I did...



started lining up for Merch and by the time I got close some stuff like the flashlight were already sold out :O
I got a tour pamphlet and an Alice Can which had a hand towel, a sticker and a Shou's bunny character charm !! yay I got Shou's xDD


(this is a drum thing signed by the members... there were several drum things like that people could win if you bought any CD/DVD over some amount and pulled a ticket that said you won... I didn't win one >.>)

Walked a bit around the place after that... there is a car exhibition or something next to Zepp too.
and then we started entering... my number was pretty bad since it was from general sale ... after the FC and mobile had bought theirs... but I won't complain about that xD


Setlist:

華
ヴェルヴェット
THE LAST EMPIRE
TSUBASA.
Q.
Drella
Kiss twice,Kiss me deadly(one more kiss edition)
ハイカラなる輪舞曲
光環
FANTASY

沙我＆Nao Session

RAINBOWS
RED CARPET GOING ON
闇ニ散ル桜
九龍-NINE HEADS RODEO SHOW-

-EN-
the beautiful name
華一匁

MC corner

閃光(new song)
極彩極色極道歌<G3>
ブループラネット

-EN2-
春夏秋冬

-EN3-
RAINBOWS


Concert was awesome!!
MC was fun as always
They talked about returning to Tokyo and how long it's been...
food and stuff and each member had a talk ...
But I honestly don't remember any details >.<

I remember bits of fanservice that happened during the concert though xD
Because Tora kissed Shou's cheek and If I remember correctly It happened twice too!!!!! Screaming fans could be clearly heard at that moment xDD
The usual Shou/Hiroto back to chest stuff happened too... and maybe something with Saga... don't remember..

Note to the future me that can read Japanese fluently:
here's the MC's and everything written by a Japanese fan 

They played a 3rd encore with RAINBOWS again!! And they had us do the "A" Jump when jumping, so fun!

In the end after the stage was closed by a screen the announcements starting playing!! a huge tour taking them all over Japan several times, the new single AND NIPPON BUDOUKAN , and damn how much I envied the fans around me that would most def go to the Budoukan concert.... knowing there was no way I could make it...



After the concert ended I took the train again to take the shinkansen.... only to find that the last Shinkansen going to Osaka was around 8pm >.> since the time was around 9-10pm... shinkansen only went until Nagoya >>>> ( I later found out there were buses going to Osaka by JR that my pass covered late at night >.> ignorant me didn't know at the time though)
well having nothing else to do I just went to Nagoya... yea wrong choice but Can't change the past now ^^ so having no place to sleep I waiting out of the Nagoya station xD (Nagoya doesn't like me much apparently ...) with another guy clearly waiting for a train too with his laptop, a drunk salaryman waiting for his mother to pick him up and the random people popping up by time to time lol 
There even came a guy asking me if I wanted to go on a drive with him o.O that was a first in Japan..

 April 9th

A bit after 4am the subway started working and for some reason I decided to go back to shin-Osaka and rest at the waiting room of the shinkansen. Good idea because at least there it was warm and soft!!  I got a bit more sleep there and at  around 8.30 I went back to Osaka.

I had booked a hotel there for 1 night and then I had planned to stay in Tokyo for 1 night and again return to the same hotel in Osaka. But because of my heavy bags I decided to just stay the whole days left in the hotel in Osaka, pretty good deal too.
Had my own room with a TV , a kotatsu and pretty spacey for just ~13euro a night!
very close to a JR station too! Just went to look at the city all day, visited the Osaka castle





one of today's food: Yummy yakisoba sandwich !!!!

And had an event concert at Big Cat at night .
Which I actually regret going to >.<
No It's not that I didn't have fun, but I could have gone to another MIYAVI concert in Matsuyama and I didn't -_- just because I thought I wanted to experience more bands at first... but MIYAVI really isn't like any band for me.... Should have just gone to his concert!
Oh well event was fun. The bands that appeared were ViViD, SCREW, アンド, HERO/【_Vani;lla】, DOLLY, R指定 I mostly chose to go for ViViD but the other bands were hella fun too! When you enter they ask you what band you came for so I said ViViD, yay! Was my first actual experience with not so big bands and they are fun xD I did kinda suffer in some parts though... some fans can be soo aggressive ... they keep pushing with all their mights forward, not to go to the front no, just to push xD kinda weird looking at them... but painful when they push behind you...

overall fun day but would prefer it to include another MIYAVI concert ^^

 April 8

After waking up in Hiroshima I took the train and then ferry to Miyajima!! And it was sooo beautiful that I stayed more than I should have, walking! And there are still places I wanted to go but reeeally couldn't!





Around 12 I returned to Hiroshima and had lunch on the department store restaurants ! Ate okonomiyaki for the first time!! And normally they had all meat in but I did tell them without meat! Got with shrimp and then realized I should have got it with soba or udon!! But it was cheaper xD Super tasty anyway!!



After that I rushed to the hostel and went to the station to pick the Shinkansen to Nagoya, started realizing it was actually late and I might not make it! After changing trains to a faster one and idk what else I arrived at Nagoya a bit before 6 >.< and doors opened at 5.30! Live was to start at 6.30!! Put all my stuff in a locker and then hurried to find zepp nagoya!
I wasn't the only one running to zepp Nagoya ! There were some other ladies and two high school girls running to the same direction of course we ended up running for the same reason!
Arrived just when my group of numbers started entering!!

BUT there is a huge But! And it only worsened my case >.<
I really didn't have any cash at all left!! And in japan to enter most lives you need to pay a 500¥ fee and you get a ticket/button to get a drink after or whenever you want!

So what happened when I said I didn't have any? Of course I was denied entry!! The woman taking the money, did call for a staff member to see what to do! after waiting at the door and everyone entering before me (my number was really bad anyway so that doesn't really matter!)
But I was so scared I wouldn't get to enter!

And I woulnt! If it wasn't for this kind head staff man!! At first we were trying to figure out what to do!
Then he sent me to the conbini near to get him cigarets with my card and give me the money in cash! But it was just my luck that that conbini didn't accept credit cards >.< so unlucky!! Then I guess he just felt sorry for me and gave me the 500¥ anyway to enter!! I really felt bad about that! I hope he's at the Tokyo live so I can give him back the money!

At start I really tried hard to enjoy the live but it was kinda hard! But it didn't take long till I was fully engroshed to the live! It really was a fun live! They played most of my fave songs!

And their MC was freaking amazing! And yay for me understanding "mostly" everything!!

Tora was the star of the MC! Because of something he lost the previous night (something to do with food competition? Not exacly sure!) he had to do punishment games!! Saga read them from a paper!
First he did many funny impersonations including Asada Mao and someone from evangelion and theen he had to show the "previous band "Tora-chan" !!! That means he picked up a guitar and started playing their song! Shou (since he was in the same band〜 ) started doing the movements and started singing the song!!!

Everyone loved it!! That truly was a special occurance!! They said it was only in Nagoya too!!

There was a lot of talk of what they did in Nagoya the previous night, everyone in groups! What they ate and stuff!! I love band MCs and theirs was awesome and funny!!

They played 2 encores and on the last one Hiroto came in with a doreamon mini plushie stuck to his shoulder!!

They all threw stuff to the crowd but I got nothing! Except I got splashed by the half drank water bottle hiroto threw above me!! A lot of people near me got stuff! But it's ok!

Wahh in the end I totally enjoyed it!! Alice Nine was fuun!
They surely aren't no Miyavi for me!
Nothing can top a Miyavi live for me! Not even close!!
But this was one of the most fun I've had out of MIYAVI for sure!

Then it was the big question.. What should I do for the night? I couldn't  go to the hostel I had booked because it was after 9! Not to mention they only accepted cash there! So I gave up on this idea and took the Shinkansen to Osaka!


(behind my seat@shinkansen xD)

Thought I'd spent the night outside the station >.< almost got locked in the station too!! That wouldn't be so bad actually, but I might have gotten in trouble...
So I just sat down at some chairs at a bus station ! It stated becoming really cold!! And weird people kept coming. An old lady with a cat in a carriage kept talking and many old homeless people but mostly drunk men -_-
none minded me though only the lady apologized at me when she sat near lol!
But I really didn't manage to sleep almost at all that night !!

 April 7

I don't think I have ever suffered so much in my life.... And all because I didn't have the money to get a freaking suitcase!

So my stuff really didn't fit to the small suitcase I had brought with me from the start.... And now I had to walk with like 6! Bags and it hurt so much!! It took me more than 1 hour to go to the station (usually it just takes 5-10 minutes)!!!

Woaah that was hard! Almost gave up ! In the end a kind ojiisan helped me for the last 2 minute walk!! It would have taken me another 20 minutes >.<



This was my first encounter with Japanese Shinkansen and I love them xD
I of course lost the train I wanted to take but thankfully with this pass I can take any train I want. So I took the 7.33am Hikari train to ShinOsaka and then the Hikari railstar to Hiroshima. Arrived at Hiroshima around  12.30 and searched for a coin locker

Thankfully I found a free one after searching for a while and left most of my stuff there!!
Then I went to find the live house "namiki junction" it was kinda easy. The doors opened at 6:30 so it was way too early since there was no goods sale beforehand!!



After that I went to the a bomb dome and the park around, ate onigiri for lunch under some sakura trees by a river...

 ＊April 6＊
Today after waking up I took the jr line heading to Chiba.
Destination: Aiba's family's restaurant, Keikarou!! Had no trouble finding it and at around 11:40am I was in line waiting to get in, and what a big line!! A lady took the names and later our order outside. At 1:30pm they let us in but again we waited to be seated.



Was sat at 2:10pm!! After almost 3 hours of waiting!!!

I ordered ebimusi gyoza and ebi chyahan~!!And I was served a bit later! They also gave a soup and tea with the food! Everything was really yum!! Definately going back next time I'm in Tokyo!! The whole place was decorated with Arashi related stuff too xD 



Aiba's mom was there too! I payed the 1280¥ for my food to her!! She even said "Thank you" to me in English! Lol idk I kinda don't like when people will talk to you in English just because you look foreigner, I do still understand english way better but....

Left a bit before 3pm, they had already stopped taking new orders for lunch.



After that I returned to the hotel to check tomorrows train times and see if I had gotten any answer from my parents but of course there was nothing!! after wondering in Asakusa by foot from my hotel, I Decided to just go to Akihabara and look for a suitcase and see if I can afford it with cash but in the end of course I couldn't if I had, I would have no money for the next hotels and food!!

Ate dinner at mos burger! Ebi katsu baga!! Was sooo tasty!!



And returned to the hotel to think over what to do with my stuff tomorow since I was leaving for Hiroshima !

In the morning after a late wake up I took the jr line to Shibuya in search of the Johnny's family club!



After walking around for a bit I found it and as I walked in arashi's message was playing!! I stood and watched all of it and after it ended walked around the place and saw all they stuff they had!





After that I went for lunch in a soba/udon place near and ordered shrimp tempura udon after paying for the ticket outside!



But even if I told the guy taking the orders I want udon (there was either udon or soba) and he repeated and told the guy that makes it "udon" I ended up being given soba!! >.< but it's ok! It was tasty anyway~

After that I walked up to harajuku to the Johnny's shop I got a ticket for 3pm so I walked around Takeshita Dori for a bit! Bought a few clothes, an Alice Nine DVD and a miyavi photobook (from closet child)!

Then went back to the Johnny's shop and bought a few photos!



After that I snacked on an egg pan I had bought before and again walked around a bit

After a few hours I ate dinner at lotteria and walked to kiddieland in Omoteshando. Bought a few stuff there too. And then returned to the hotel from shibuya.

 ＊April 4＊
We had arranged with Wako (fellow co-miyavi from the FC trip) to meet up at Yokohama station at 1:30pm

After waking up I decided to eat breakfast at Denny's and wow that was scary ! The place is like an expensive restaurant! I got French toast and it was yummyy!! But expensive after all>.< around 500¥



After that I went to nakameguro to pick up the cheapest train to Yokohama.
Sakura blossoms are really everywhere!! And meguro even from up the station looked beautiful!



I arrived at Yokohama a bit before 1pm since I was early I walked around the station a bit. And what a huge station it is!!

After meeting with Wako we decided to go to closet child there! Have to say Yokohama's closet child had way more Miyavi stuff than Harajuku's!! I didn't know what to buy!!
I got a bunch of stuff since they also had a 20% off sale on almost everything that day!! A lot of stuff I wanted I didn't buy after all though! Not enough money!

After that we went and took purikura!! My first experience with purikura and I have to say I need a few more tries to get used to them! I left all the drawing to Wako lol!
Then we visited the place she works part-time at a bookstore in a huge mall!!
Her boss actually gave us both a couple of gifts!! After that we sat down and looked over some magazines of Miyavi we had bought fangirling over then xD

We started getting hungry then so we decided to go eat at this spaghetty place there!



I had a seafood-shrimp Japanese style spaghetti and I really loved it!!
I was originally an italian spaghetti fan but now I think I prefer Japanese style!!
After sitting there and talking some more we decided to walk around a bit and then return to Tokyo. Her grandmother's house was in the same neighborhood as my hotel!
She also thought it would be a great idea if after returning to Tokyo I could again return with her and her mother to Yokohama and sleep over at her house! That would have been awesome. But we later we found out there was some problems with her grandmother so it couldn't happen this time ! Next time thought!! When we've planned it!
Train ride to Tokyo was long.... And after we arrived at my hotel's neighborhood Wako wasn't sure where exactly her grandmother's house was but she decided to go along and find it later (Japanese addresses are really complicated) after looking at a map we thought it should be along the way to my hotel and further up so we walked to the hotel said our goodbyes and separated! But after getting in my room there was suddenly a loud speaker going "Rosie please come to the lobby" or something like that. I was really surprised!!

After getting down, of course there was Wako looking also surprised the receptionist guy used the speakers to get someone down LoL after getting out Wako told me that her grandmother's house was just along the street!! It ended up being so close!!
So that was my first experience with visiting a real traditional Japanese house!! We stayed there a bit. They showed me around the house and we talked about stuff xD Miyavi included ... turns out even Japanese parents think he looks like a woman LoL. After that me and Wako walked to the conbini nearby and then I returned to the hotel and she left~
Fuuuun day really! I miss Wako~

Finished the day with again some TV and catching Sho on a TV show!!!



perfect day in Japan...
(ps this and most of the rest of my days in japan are typed up already from Japan so I'll just correct some stuff and post)

 On April 3rd I had tickets to the Kra concert in Hibiya.
Not a huge fan of them but I like them.

I got there from late morning. And after walking around the park to find the open hall it was already lunch time, so I had some Yakisoba from a stall outside the hall!
Yum yakisoba!



And after that walked out the park and to the imperial gardens! Walked all the way to the gardens got in saw the place and all. when I got back to the hall it was already around 4pm gates opened at 5.30.



I didn't actually have a ticket at hand since I had got a ticket throught their online tickets for overseas fans.
So I was supposed to pick it up there. There was some confusion about that~ or more like the staff outside didn't know anything about that >.<
(haha you can see the guy in the photo he was really trying to help though and he understood my Japanese kinda~ yay) 
but it's ok in the end right before gates opened they gave me my ticket xD
from merchandise I only got a character wallet (it's really cute and A9's Nao has it xDD )
A bit before opening I actually saw Yasuno in the woods up in the theatre area >.< looking at the fans !
None else seemed to realize though Lol and I'm no big fan to call at him or anything sooo...your loss fans xDD

It was a seated concert so no rush to get in. My seat was in the centre at the hm 3rd level not really bad~! It's theatre type so wherever from you get a good view!!
there were quite a few empty seats too. The isle to my left clearly had important people and even some kids xD wonder whose relatives or what they were ...
then the lights were changed and the bang got out!!