In May, Dad & Keira jetted off for a week and a half in Japan - carrying on the dad-daughter tradition started with Claire back in March 2023, on the premise of 'work-experience', but was really just a good excuse for the two of us to escape the cold of Sydney, and enjoy some quality time, some great shopping, amazing food - as well as attend the Short Shorts Film Festival (which was the true excuse).
We started the trip with a couple of days in Nagasaki, to the far south of Japan - which gave us an insight into small-town Japan (even though Nagasaki is a reasonably large town) - where the pace of live is vastly different to that of Tokyo. We spent some time learning about the infamous history of the town, but also exploring the old (undamaged) part of the town, incluing an unagi restaurant that has stood in the same location for 160 years!
After leaving Nagasaki, we had a whirlwind week in Tokyo. We based ourselves in Ebisu, but spent time exploring all over town on various side-missions, focused around gachapon, pokemon, thrifting and eating! We visited what must have been every used CD store in town, the thrifitng town of Shimokitazawa, the flea markets at Oi, and had at least 1 matcha drink every day for the entire trip!
We visited an Art Aquarium (very cool actually), ate way too much food, and make a nightly pilgrimage to the convenience stores (konbini) to pick up some snacks and some YouC1000 drinks to replenish ourselves from the 20,000steps per day we were walking!
The film festival, at MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives was a great experience - where we saw 25 odd short films by young and emerging directors from around the world. Each daily session finished with a short Q&A with some of the directors.
We ended with a Sumo Show & Dinner - which was surprisingly good fun... And then it was back to reality - work and school! Unfortunately Dad's phone catastrophically failed with about 3 days to go - so there's no photos to share of the final days!
So - here are the photos - Nagasaki!
Tokyo
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