| April: Dormitory in Oubaku, where I lived for 6 months |
| View of Uji City from dorm |
| With some friends from Japanese class |
| A party by the river - cold!! |
| At Yasaka Shrine, Kyoto |
| My first sanga game - most impress with pitchside entertainment! |
| May: Saikou and Kida from lab, at BBQ |
| Post-party, with English Speaking club |
| An early karaoke session...many followed! |
| Friends in karaoke |
| Hikone castle, Shiga-ken |
| Mum and dad at Kyodai |
| Mud and Dad at Toji |
| Some monks, at Toji |
| Cats, also at Toji! |
| June: Fireworks at the English Club bbq! |
| Rainy season, and rainbows, arrive at uni. |
| With some friends watching Sanga play! |
| Still like the dance routines :) |
| Football is played too though! |
| Evening games are particularily good... |
| July: At an Izakaya with the guys from the lab. |
| Akita-san and Mizu-san fooling around! |
| Lab group photo |
| Dressed in yukata ready for the Gion Festival. With Ton, a friend from Thailand. |
| Now with Yuchi, a friend from Taiwan - you can tell how hot it is from all the sweat! |
| With some friends from class ready to go into an izakaya, and cool down a bit! |
| Ahhhhhh...cooling beer! At last!! |
| At a culture demonstration. I believe this is a chinese dance... |
| Still at the demonstration day, this dance being from Japan. |
| From dancing to tea ceremony. Traditional koto and shamisen. |
| Yuchi, having just served the tea. |
| With a friend, Tamaki, from Kobe. We first met in England, via AJS. |
| August: At Tokyo Disneyland...a great day! Like being a kid again! |
| These two, like many others, swap suits for mickey mouse ears for the day. And look at the joy on the guy's face! |
| In front of Winnie the Poo's Honey Hunt - a class ride if ever there was one... |
| With Katie in front of the castle |
| With some of Katie's friends in Funabshi |
| At a waterfall in Nikko. A wonderful place, such a contrast from Toyko. |
| A deer cooling down from the summer heat - Nikko |
| A dragonfly, ready to fly! |
| Another beautiful waterfall, again in Nikko |
| Lakes and mountains...nice scenary in Nikko, no mistake! |
| The nice, but bizarre, Odaiba. A bay area near Tokyo |
| A praying mantis next to my door! Look at his cute little face! |
| September: A rikshaw at the end of a path, in the midst of a bamboo forest. Arashiyama. |
| A small temple set in a moss garden, again in Arashiyama. |
| Katie's head joins that of 8000 budhas. A temple in Arashiyama. |
| A small shrine in the forested valley of Kurama. |
| More Kurama scenery. |
| The steps on the way up towards the road my flat is on. Love dragging the bike up here... |
| Playing table footie in the pub with friends from class! |
| And drinking beer from...measuring tubes? |
| More karaoke! This time, with Wolfgang and co. |
| October: Back to Arashiyama, this time with Dave and Sam from England |
| We saw some "geisha", but not the real thing - tourists dressed up to act the part I think! |
| Ginkakuji (Silver Pavilion) - nice place...not as flashy as it's Golden relative... |
| Himeji Castle. Very impressive, but will be remembered as the place where Sam dropped his JR Railpass! |
| The Kobe harbour. |
| Sam and Dave, at Kobe harbour. |
| Getting ready for the Kurama Fire festival. With class mates. |
| It's pretty cold, but the beer helps! |
| The kids also get to carry some fire, making for some dangerous moments! |
| The guys get to carry the big ones, although not so big on the clothing side... |
| Fire festival heats up...no wonder so many temples burn down. |
| And again - this was a very impressive festival. Or so I thought anyway. |
| November: A drinking party with friends from English speaking soc. |
| And again. Bizarre picture! |
| The Kyoto Uni Festival, anothe chance for the cheerleaders to dance! |
| Momiji (autumn leaf viewing) action ahoy! |
| A pagoda rises from above all the red leaves...! |
| These ones are pretty bright! |
| The view of Kyoto from Daimonjiyama. |
| December: Live Beatles cover performance at Ringo. Small piccy, because from phone (before I knew it could do big ones!) |
| And on my way home to England for the hols! |
