Monday, 17 March 2014

SHIRANU GA HOTOKE

All aboard the Osaka Monorail to Nagano Sake Mountain - a mishmash beauty bromance unfolding amongst a kawai kaleidoscope of twitching eels, poncho combos,pink cheeked monkeys and innocent back scrubbing in the Olympic Onsens of so-cold-it's-hot Hakuba.

Losing ourselves and finding each other amongst the whitest snow and the purest air, first-time-wedgers longtime-helmets and medium-pole-droppers careering our way to Harry Henry's Holiday Inn - falling and laughing, dancing and snowball fighting through submarine showers, sumo steamboats and sake shots.



Under perfect blue Omotesando skies we zigged, zagged and Shin-Ju-Kued our way through quirky fusion Harajuku to the Shibuya crossing, peaceful temples sashimi towers 4am tuna auctions and the freshest fish ever before a Northern Soul all nighter in Roppongi for the kids.

A cataclysmic carnival of robot-girls drums dragons and pandas, ro-mantic serenades from Mr Bombastic and the cheeky girls. The elegant hostess with the mostest in the smallest of small Golden Gai bars; four days and nights of awesome food, never-give-up-spirit and tender togetherness… Sayonara!