Arasick Time: April 2009

10-Apr is Domoto Tsuyoshi's Birthday!

Happy 30th Birthday !

Tsuyoshi is going to have solo con on his birthday and in his hometown Nara.. some of my friends are going to Nara for his concerts.. and they will be doing some sightseeing also.. So of cos they will go to some of the places which are Tsuyoshi related.

The must go place is of cos Nara Park where must people had already went as a tourist attaction. I went to these places where less people will go but was recommended by Mr Domoto himself..There is a bangumi (堂本剛心呼吸ふるさと奈良を歩く) some time last year where he introduced Nara..and I actually follow the path which Mr Domoto went..with the bangumi stored in my ipod!! And I also left a mark on my ipod cos I dropped my ipod and scatched it at Nara Palace Site when I compared that actual place with the bangumi in my ipod.. haha..

This place is called Nara Palace Site. I think meaning it is an old site of the Nara Palace. But now you will only see some base of pillars and to me it is nothing but an open field but this field is very big.. is like 2-3km across. And walking from one side to the other side is damn tiring. Tsuyo said that he likes this place cos the sky is very broad here and when he was a kid he likes to go there.. And he especially like the place when it is evening time during sunset and so i purposely when there during evening time to experience what Tsuyo experienced! haha.. I'm crazy.. when I went there from Nara Park .. I ask the tourist information on how to get there and the tourist information counter staff was quite amazed that why would a foreigner want to go to this kind of places.. I think seldom tourist will visit this place.. true enough I only see locals there jogging, playing baseball, playing guitars and even pratising singing!

And the factory looking thing is actually some recovering work going on and in the bangumi, the showed what is inside and Tsuyoshi mentioned that he hoped to have concert there.. but of cos it is not opened to public so I don’t know what is inside. Not sure if they had release this place to public now or not. I managed to get a bit of the sunset also.. But when it is getting darker I feel a bit scared alone so I didn’t wait for the sky to get darker and besides I still need to rush back to my hotel in Osaka..

Nara Palace Site

The bustop to the palace site and the bus will come only once every 30mins. And I wonder if Tsuyo lived here the palace site when he was young cos the place is not very accessable and I saw houses opposite ! Can my Tsuyoshi just staying there??

This is also a temple but what so special about this temple is.. Tsuyoshi’s kindergarten is in it! Haha.. and there is this place that is called hondou (本堂) . And it is opposite from Doumoto (堂本) and this catch the attention of young Tsuyoshi. This temple is actually quite near to the Nara Palace Site.. omg.. this makes me feel more and more that Tsuyoshi is only living nearby! So near and yet so far! I think he MUST be staying nearby!! But I heard that they had moved house.. even his parents. Not sure.. not very sure abt such things.. haha..