Christmas in Japan was very interesting and definitely very different from the Norwegian Christmas traditions! I was really happy to be able to experience what the Japanese culture is like during Christmas!
On the morning of Christmas Eve, I went to a market which is held every Saturday in front of Shin-Osaka station. I bought a tare-panda teddy bear for 50 yen!!
Since I had heard that Japanese people often eat Christmas cake on Christmas Eve, I wanted to try it, and so I bought a really tiny one at Lawson convenience store. x) It was tasty~
I also wanted to try the traditional Japanese Christmas fried chicken! It was really tasty too, and very different from the Norwegian Christmas dinner!
After eating, I went to sing karaoke. I sang a lot of Christmas songs~ It was fun!
This Christmas was definitely different and very interesting!
On Christmas Morning, I went to an internet-cafè with Yuto~ We watched "tři oříšky pro popelku"(Three nuts for Cinderella), which is a Czec version of the Cinderella story. It's a big tradition in both Norway and the Czec Republic to watch this movie at Christmas, and I had brought the Norwegian dubbed version with me on DVD. I explained the story and the lines to Yuto during the movie, but the movie is easy to understand even without knowing the language~ Since I watch it every single year, it felt extra special to actually watch it in Japan! I bet there aren't many Japanese people who have watched this movie, especially not all in Norwegian! Yuto was very good at imitating the lines. xD It was so much fun!
Afterwards, we had a nice dinner together before he had to leave for work~
I found that the Christmas time in Japan is a very relaxed time. There is no Christmas stress to buy presents or anything. They really do go all out with Christmas illuminations and decorations, though, which truly gives the surroundings a very romantic touch♥ Since here in Japan, Christmas Eve is couple's day~
On the 27th, I met Yuto again, and we went on a Umeda-date ^__^ We went to the movies and watched "New Year's Eve" ! It was so romantic and sweet~ We also went to karaoke and did purikura again :D
On the 28th, I went into Namba for some shopping, and I found a really nice hair salon, where I cut my broken edges an got a wonderful hair treatment and even shoulder massage!! The salon is called "Prete" and is located in the street leading to Ebisu-suji walking from exit 14 of Namba subway station. I think I will go there next time I'm in Osaka too~ I got a discount card there! XD
Here's the result~
Namba at night
Here's a vitamin jelly drink which I used to drink while in Japan. I figured that since the vitamins I brought from Norway last time gave me an allergic reaction, I'd try some local products. This seemed to work well, I didn't get any allergic reactions, and I felt overall better after drinking it a couple of times. :) It costs around 200 yen at the convenience store.
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