Do you remember her?
This native of Chengdu after the 80s beauty
As a traveler from Chengdu
I have been introduced to the visa-free country - Morocco's play guide
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"This Chengdu post-80s beauty who has been to more than 40 countries,
Meat tested the mysterious country that just got visa-free! Good! play! 》
And this time
She wandered off to Japan
Columnist
Huang Yu, post-80s, Chengdu native. Founder of The Big Man, veteran media personality, and hands-on traveler of global travel. So far, he has traveled to 45 countries around the world, advocating "living elsewhere, walking is life".
Come and see her circumnavigation story —
I go to Japan every year, not even once a year. Each time, for a different reason.
It can be to see cherry blossoms, it can be to see the autumn leaves, it can be to soak in different hot springs, to see different gardens, to experience the traditional culture of Japanese incense, flower, and tea ceremony;
In order to go shopping, to go to a Japanese hospital for a medical examination, to go to a gourmet shop with only a few seats from Michelin restaurants to the streets and alleys, to stay in different hotels, to see a variety of top art exhibitions.
Because it flies from Chengdu very quickly, sometimes I even go to the weekend.
Shop at Shinjuku's medieval shops, drink afternoon tea in Aoyama, take a walk at the Nezu Museum, and go to the hot springs in the evening to sleep peacefully.
In fact, even if it's just a weekend, you can encounter countless surprises in another city. If you don't go out, you may be bored in bed playing with your mobile phone.
I am a person who is willing to make every day fruitful, so I am not afraid of tossing and turning, nor do I feel tired. Enjoy what you like, is happiness.
Soon I will be going to Japan again, this time mainly to see the famous contemporary avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama's exhibition "My Eternal Soul", this is the largest solo exhibition in the history of the "Queen of Polka Dot", there will be 240 works on display, it is difficult to have the opportunity to see so many of her works at once, so of course I will not miss it!
In my early years, I used to go to Yili, Xinjiang, to see lavender, fly from Chengdu to Urumqi, and then take a bumpy car for most of the day to reach Yili. Along the way, I was shocked by the sapphire blue of Sailim Lake and arrived home by the big and red tomatoes in Xinjiang.
So to go to a place, just one reason is enough for me to pack up and go out, but I know that in addition to this reason, I will definitely get more surprises.
If you want me to enumerate a few
The most worthwhile reason to travel to Japan
Today I'm going to talk about my own personal feelings
I believe that countless movies have depicted how romantic Japanese cherry blossoms are, but only when you stand under the pink cherry blossom trees and see a pink and tender flower petals falling with the wind, you will really feel a feeling that your heart has melted.
Tokyo Ueno Park, Chidori-fuchi, Kuromegawa, Rokuyoshi-en, Osaka Castle Park, and Kyoto's various temple gardens are the best places to enjoy cherry blossoms. You can rent kimonos in Kyoto and wear local costumes to shoot cherry blossom blockbusters.
Every time you visit Tokyo, shopping is an indispensable program.
Whether it is an international first-line brand, or a japanese domestic fashion brand, or even a supermarket, you can find a lot of very designed and practical good things, Japanese design has always led the fashion trend.
There are also lovers who like to shop for antique jewelry and antiques, and you will be able to buy them in Japan. Shopping in Japan is also much cheaper than in Japan. Not to be missed are shopping destinations, Ginza, Omotesando, Aoyama, and Shinjuku.
▲Akabotei, a hidden restaurant hidden in the building, can enjoy Japanese cuisine while looking out at the beautiful garden of Japan, and this chic space will make people forget that this is Tokyo.
For the goodie, going to Japan is definitely a feast for you, And Tokyo is the city with the most Michelin in the world, with 227 from one-star to three-star, and 96 Michelin-starred restaurants in Osaka. It takes a long time just to finish eating these listed restaurants.
The most surprising thing in Japan is that there are many small shops in the streets and alleys, and the small façade can only sit a few guests, but this shop may have been passed down for hundreds of years, not looking at the façade but only talking about the taste, just like our Chengdu people's favorite fly restaurant, Michelin dinner, kaiseki, Ichiran ramen, tempura.
If you can get up early, you can also go to Tsukiji Market, where the seafood salvaged every morning is made into the freshest sushi, which is very local.
I like Japanese-style hot spring hotels, I can experience the traditional Japanese life, through the Japanese garden, stay in a room in the tatami, soak in the hot spring, look up at the starry sky, this is the feeling that I miss the most, you can also eat a fine kaiseki cuisine in the hotel like a work of art, what better life can be than this?
I experienced the tea ceremony in Kyoto with an old lady in her 70s, who had studied the tea ceremony for more than 50 years, dressed in kimono, from the tea ceremony arrangement, adding water, foaming, tasting tea, putting the bowl, every step was so exquisite, and each step was permeated with the philosophy of life, which was the most beautiful afternoon I enjoyed in Kyoto, and I was also amazed by their attitude towards the tea ceremony, meticulous rigor.
Before going to Japan, I studied "Chinese Floral Art", and going to Japan to experience the similarities between Japanese Floral And "Chinese Floral Art", but in terms of expression style, they are different. To a city and savor her culture is the most memorable memory of travel.
Every time I go to Japan, I have the opportunity to see many international first-class exhibitions, which is a rare opportunity in Chengdu. At the beginning of 2017, Kusama's largest solo exhibition ever, "My Eternal Soul", "Tea Soup - Japanese Tea Ceremony Exhibition", "Once Again, First Meeting, Snoopy" and other exhibitions.
One of the best ways to reflect Japan's laid-back life is to visit the garden.
Walk on the gravel path, step by step is the scenery. I love Kyoto's Ryoanji Temple, which has the most famous dry landscape, in the white rubble of the courtyard, there are 15 small rockeries, but no matter which side you count from, you can't count 15 at a time, there is always one hidden, this is the mystery!
I also like the Nezu Museum of Art in Tokyo, the theme of the exhibition hall is very modern, but walking into the courtyard is a unique cave, there are many Japanese stone buddha statues, Japanese garden design, the perfect combination of modern and traditional, and the location is in the most prosperous shopping area Aoyama, a few steps away from lv, prada and so on.
In Omotesando and Ginza, you are not only a paradise for shopping, but also a place to enjoy the masterpieces of famous Japanese architects while shopping. Ginza's mikimoto flagship store is designed by Toyo Ito, Aoyama's famous prada flagship store is designed by Herzog, dior flagship store is designed by Kazuyo Sejima, and hills is designed by Tadao Ando.
There are many reasons why I like to go to Japan, I'm afraid this article will be too long, so I'll write about it in the future