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[arisha]

So I just bought two tickets to a kabuki performance in Tokyo. xD (YES my dad is coming with me HE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT KABUKI IS!!) I don't even know what these plays (it is 3-in-1, by the looks of it!) are about, but I once wrote an essay about a particularly gruesome kabuki play in which a bunch of people got nailed to doors and thrown into rivers, so I mean. We can only hope. xDD;

The bunraku tickets I am looking to get go on sale on the eleventh. I AM EVEN MORE EXCITED FOR THAT ONE!!! xDD!!

haha of course all this excitement comes after an hour of fiddling with Google Maps trying to find out what the best located hostel in Osaka is. (Aaaand also which ones have private showers. I know, I know, but I'm sorry, public bathing is one cultural experience I'm just not prepared to experience right now!) GOSH parts of planning a trip can be TEDIOUS. >:/

(I am going Tokyo - Osaka - Kyoto - Fukuoka and Kitakyushu, for if anyone wants to tell me some nifty places to visit. ;) )

Comments

re: private showers

[the-wykydtron.livejournal.com]

Oh, Spuzzy! You're missing the best part of hosteling! There is nothing better than waking up in the morning to a nude, ripped and tattooed British man emerging fresh from the shower with a towel around his waist apologizing shyly for having woken you up. NOTHING BETTER.

(/tmi, Dublin edition)

In all seriousness, I never found sharing a shower to be a problem. Unless you forget your underwear in your bag before you step into the bathroom, there is no necessity for public nudity (assuming of course that no alcohol is involved). I don't know how it works in Japan, but in the hostels I stayed in you HAD to share showers. Sometimes there were rooms with showers in them, which were awesome, but you still shared those showers with your roommates. Is it different where you're staying?

Re: private showers

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Okay, I guess I wrote that line funny. I do expect to have to share a shower; what I meant was that I want privacy while I am in the shower. One of my guidebooks reminded me that Japan is a country of public bathhouses and so I was kind of panicking a little. ^^; But I have found two hostels that fit this requirement of mine so it's all good!

I'm actually looking forward to my very first hostel experience. I hope I manage to pretend to be outgoing. xD

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

Dude, kabuki. AND BUNRAKU, YOU LUCKY PERSON. We watched a little documentary in Japanese class, and it looks so awesome!

asdlfkj Your trip is gonna be amazing. XD

[arisha.livejournal.com]

GUESS WHO HAS A FRONT ROW SEAT FOR BUNRAKU?

ANSWER: ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aaaaaaaahahaha spending all day on the computer slamming the National Theatre site has PAID OFF. xDDD;;;;; (Yay for Japan's National Theatre allowing us overseas people to buy tickets online and pick them up when we get there. <3 )

We watched a little documentary in Japanese class, and it looks so awesome!

We watched an entire video of a bunraku play in one of my Japanese lit. classes, that was pretty cool. :D I read a spoiler-free summary of the bunraku play I'm going to, but I'm like 95% sure that the main characters will kill themselves in the end, because that seems to be the way these things go. xDDD

asdlfkj Your trip is gonna be amazing. XD

I'M GONNA BE SO BROKE!!!! xD!

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you lucky thing. How much do you think you'll follow?

BUT SO WORTH IT.

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Considering most bunraku and kabuki plays were written in Shakespeare's time ... not much. xD

BUT YES. WORTH IT!!

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

Good point. Man, Shakespearean equivalent Japanese. Q.q

Totally~!

[aurora-lime.livejournal.com]

You: Dad! dad! we're going to go see KABUKI!!
your dad: what? why? why would we pay to see them ride their bikes around town? are we going to get a ride too?
you:.. what? o_o

[arisha.livejournal.com]

He actually made a very similar joke not soon after you posted this.

-_-;;;

[arisha.livejournal.com]

*not LONG :P