On 23rd . 12. the Emperor's birthday. This is one of the two days a year, where you can see the Imperial Palace is not only outside but also from the inside. All things just a small part. You get behind the walls and provides a great place and a house, which probably comes from the 70s ... with a winter garden? Well, we can describe it best. I think this is the house where the Emperor as the general to the people.
Three times a day shows the emperor with his sons and their wives and gave a short speech. The Japanese and tourists flock to the palace and then be first checked whether they have guns in their pockets (one glance is enough - we are here in Japan) and on bottles are told: "Please do not throw". No, but also a crap, now I can not throw my Molotov cocktail, the woman at the entrance prohibited hats ...
And then a body check. Then we can clean.
Then we stood before it and waited for the Emperor came out. Did it soon. Looked very nice, but my older Japanese are somehow better anyway, somehow ^ ^; As he was, we all have with the flags that had us down to the entrance to the hand coiled, udn cheered.
Jacqueline, Annika, ^ _ ^ and Mariko after a hard day's visit plus flags: D Did they still do.
Then we went a bit exploring the area, because we were hungry. So much to discover, however, There Were not. That is why we are the nearest shopping center and Annie and I first embraced the tree. Treehugger. Here are the 70 already long gone.
The next day was Christmas.
And I got during the morning a text message from Annika with the content: Have something for us.
knocked on the door then it really a totally amazing Christmas cake * __ *, pure sugar, but heavenly! So our Christmas was usually a little lonely right at home: D
25th 30 we went on vacation. First we took the highway bus from Shinjuku to Kusatsu Onsen, early morning (7 clock) went off, so we set off at half-6th Terribly early! Hardly slept the night.
Hongo-san, our caretaker, washing windows, and wondered, though, since when the dorm residents to go out so early, where they are but normally only then home. And we wondered how to clean so early in the morning window. Well.
In the bus I fell asleep first comatose and was once made by Annika awake when she saw the first snow and is totally happy (at last winter!). My answer bestannt grumbled a bit incomprehensible (probably "good for you") and I turned around and thus missed out the first snow in Japan.
But when we arrived in Kusatsu, we had enough of it.
This was our view from the window of our Ryokan, the middle of a Japanese couple was about gefüht 50th They were super nice and excited that we spoke Japanese. So excited that we could talk a while with them and when they told us the functions of the Ryokan (Toilet, brushing teeth, Onsen, etc), we could hear every word. Booyah! : D
Tired as we were, we then explored the first place. Miraculously, there were many half-timbered houses. We felt right at home. That it's colder there, people noticed the same. The houses were not so windy, the windows were actually double glazing (but still all doors and windows ...).
was in the village core, the Yubatake, where the sulfur-containing, but totally healthy Onsenwasser is distributed. It stank to high heaven, but the Yubatake was beautiful to behold. Nevertheless, the smell of rotten eggs was From now on, our constant companion. It is believed but not how fast you can get used to it. Pregnant but since I will not go anyway.
There was snow everywhere and we slid well due to the unfamiliar soil. Our first visit was of course a temple. Or a shrine? Still uncertain on the top left
It was beautiful, everything else you see every day in Tokyo, sometimes seen covered with snow. Here are the piece of paper drawn that promise a pitch for the coming year. Partial but also lucky. Because of bad luck is, fold and hang and you can reverse it. Fortunately, you can probably also increase. So completely as I climb not, but seems to be different for each shrine. must awake to ring
The gods Gkocke to it of course. Then one can express his needs and can assume that has just fallen out of bed to listen for God. What if he looks just football and not hear the bell? Well, surely you can never be.
The following images are a glimpse into Kusatsu at night.
Here is a shrine (because of the gates), looks scary, but it was cute and schnuffel. On top, you could wade super in the snow.
Yubatake And again at night. The course was all to look super nice. Nevertheless, it stank.
Annika and I also visited a tropical house. We hoped to see monkeys bathing in the onsen, but that had nothing better to do than to grooming to ...
... or to her bottom line on the water warm. Rein did not want, while they already have the luxury!
In the tropical house we were at the counter of a little fellow like welcomed up there in the picture. When we saw his friends in the tropical house then in a larger cage, There Were no stopping us. No barrier there, so you could keep fingers clean. As can be seen, enjoyed our very popular pointing devices. Something else in this whole monotony of the day. Unfortunately they could not drag your finger as still there hung a man. This was a fanfare ...
And this cozy contemporary feel free to read crawl and pushed himself right to the bars, moved UDN is long over and licked his fingers. cute, so one I want!
On the way to the open-air Onsen (ie, outside), we are also on that devil-source field came by. Were still there more often because somehow everyone seemed on the way here just turn over and Yubatake out. But no problem, it seemed always nice and the water was warm. Ürbigens, here were also on the left, a small memorial, for Kusatsu and Germany are "friends". Previously, many German (doctors, I think) come to Kusatsu. Certainly because of the ominous hot springs.
One day there was evening, the festival of lights. After Annie and I had us in so geräkelt Freilichtonsen and stared powerful were ("OMG! Foreigners !!!), so we are sooooo on the way back to vorbeigeschlendert many lights.
Actually, it was not so green there, but the light colored each picture ...
On the way to Freilichtonsen have built the men busily the lights to 5 it was so dark and we could see beautiful patterns.
The next day we wanted to go skiing, but it was too expensive. Nevertheless, we let it take us not to make a pilgrimage to the ski resort. And of course we were the usual paths obviously too boring and we waded through knee-deep snow and crossed a lake. Ultimately, the ski resort was not much more than just ... Skiing. We ate in a cafeteria or something like curry and are back again - but then trails, snow angels and Co. because we have already made.
From 28 30 We were then in Nikko.
Here we see our Park Lodge. 20 minutes to Nikko on foot, as no bus, but run by Zen monks. That was an experience!
We have of course run in this city so beautiful, but never mind, we have seen quite a lot. This bridge, for example, are allowed to enter only the emperor and top generals, to the public it is locked. Therefore, we can then run on the road turn right over, of course, without a walk.
The temples and shrines that we originally wanted to see, we have not even found. So we made our way to find the Jizo statues. Also has geklppt great. On the way we have not made an Italian (which was a bit of German) and will continue together. One of them smiles, behold the others seriously. The Grinning makes fun of the travelers who tries to count all the statues, because supposedly, when all is one on the way and then another one from way back, all come out a different number.
where there was also a Mönchsfiredhof that I necessarily wanted to see. Since he was not marked on the map and we only had a rough route map, we looked first adventure. But we found him, after we are gone, of course, turn over (but the Beschreibugn "There are then stairs because you have high" was not so great, there were so many of them !!!).
The next day we made it our famous shrines and temples tour.
the beginning was the garden. So, a Japanese garden. It was bitterly cold, but it still looked beautiful.
After the gardens we started with the shrines and temples.
In this picture you can see, for example, as is imagined temple elephants Designer udn lions, without ever getting to that face. Good thing I knew before. That this is a lion, maybe you should write it.
This here is the most magnificent of all (Toshogu Shrine, believe me I remember right), covered with lots of gold. Or was the temple? Hach, in that we have all three rear criteria other visits away, I was confusing the names. 
Each shrine washing yourself before (symbolisch!!) In order to free themselves from the evil of everyday life. Nowadays, of course, only hands and his mouth is rinsed out.
that this gate was huge you can see only when you compare it with the people around it. And the great thing about Nikko:
next shrines udn Temepeln it's wonderful green! This can be easily missed in Tokyo.
This area was closed, but photos could do it anyway. I wonder why it was locked. However, there was nothing in the guidebook about it, so there was probably nothing more to see.
We were many stairs to reach the highest point. This was a Kraxelei! But we got better as the Japanese visitors from Toyko. Many a girl we at the top Kraxelei outdated, gasped and groaned and gasped: "How exhausting!" Shibuya is just something else.
top! Well, not quite, but a nice view gabs anyway.
This is the grave of Tokugawa's grandson. His ashes will be there in it. And we are hochgekraxelt ...
A waterfall in Nikko because it is mountainous ... We were pretty broke at the end of the day ... The next day we were in the Edo Wonderland, then the our Chaostag par ... missed buses, false information to end up in the middle of nowhere, and much more, what went wrong ... but the time must be, otherwise everything was always great.
Edo Wonderland (Nikko Edomura) is a village, like an amusement park, how to interactively experience the life of Ninja and life in the Edo period (1600-1853). If you wanted, you could wrap in a kimono or other clothing of that time. That was then but too expensive.
Furthermore one could gaze out of all the weapons of the time, in a ninja-Traningshaus could go. My favorite house, but Annika was in it bad.
At 12 noon is the Parade, where the most successful geisha ran through the village with a small progression. Only once a day, so we were lucky to see them. How you can walk on those shoes, I wondered more than once. Other hand, see themselves high heels small.
Last but not least, before everything was totally chaotic, I've beaten a samurai. The boy here (dad of twins) gave me all at once just his katana in hand and asked "Do you michumbringen: D Let us make a photo like this: DD" And then ... We drove 6 hours from Nikko, what it takes usually only 2. And we realized: If we do our Luggage had to pick (from Nikko), we would have long been home ... to can not have it all.
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