Nagano

Home of the winter olympics back in the 90's which looked like it had a major makeover in the 90's because of it and nothing has changed.

There wasn't really much to do or see here as its a Winter city for everyone to come and go skiing. We took a walk around the city and went to the Zenkoji Temple which would probably be one of the biggest templates ive seen so far. This temple is currently in use everyday where they perform they're rituals. It is also thought to have the first Buddhist statue ever bought to japan.

Once you've seen one temple you've pretty much seen them all so you can walk through them quite quickly most of the time but there's always something very unique about each of them which grabs your eye and before you notice you've been there for quite a while.

More shopping and we came across this little shop at the end of an arcade. This guy looked like he had collected every sort of toy, nick knack and piece of crap over the years and just kept it in his shop as a museum with price tags on them. We found a few cool little things including a complete set of japanese coke bottles (with coke) to add to my collection. He even had a LaserDisc collection with Back to the future II music video sountrack, The immaculate Collection, Terminator 2 and a few others.

After that we then a game of ten pin bowling, Megan somehow managed to get a score over 100 for once. :P

That was probably the highlight of the day :)

Ohh, and i saw a HR30 Skyline which didnt look like it had moved for a loooong time but you dont see many of those suckers around anymore. Ohh to have a big garage to collect all the different models, i'll have to stick to the small scale versions instead.

Shaun