Cosplay World Summit 2010!

So, the Cosplay World Chanpionship was here in Nagoya at the same time as we.

Of course we went to see it, what did you think?

It was WOW. Like, a bit different from the finnish cosplay happenings. Two to which I've been, if my memory is functioning correctly.

But on Saturday we saw the Red Carpet parade (took no pictures as we sat in a cafe for all of it watched from a distance) and the parade at the Osu district.

Here are the best parts of the parade:

There were even more good ones but I don't have the patience time to go through all those pictures again.

In the evening we had a modest party at our hostel and ended up teaching a Finnish driking game to the other guests and employees at the hostel.

On Sunday we went to Nagoya Science Museum in the morning and accidentally met our Korean friend from our hostel there! We looked through only a few floors of the museum as we had only limited time before the last planetarium show of the day began. We got to see the worlds' largest planetarium and listen to Japanese explanations of the Sun's orbit etc.

After that we travelled to Oasis 21 where the Cosplay Chanmpionships would take place. As we sat on broad stairs and waited for the program to begin a certain cosplay caught my eye:

After falling in love with this guy I stalked several wonderful cosplayers but didn't get the chance to ask for pictures as the actual program began. In short: Finland sucked, Korea, Japan and surprisingly one of the European contestant pairs rocked.

Shopping

So we've been around the Osu shopping area. Enough said.

Mia's bought another pair also but I can't be bothered to go up to our room AGAIN and dig them from her suitcase. But here's the other pair she bought:

What I've bought include two pairs of shoes (as my old ones broke down on me) and a SET.

It's a t-shirt, a black 3/4 sleeved thing and a SCARF WHICH I LOVE.

Stoooopid entry, I'll give you the Cosplay World Summit Update of Destiny (covering two days) next time!

4th largest city in JPN!

Nagoya baby, we have arrived! Finally some big city style!

We came on Tuesday, and had no real problems finding our hostel (and no problems getting there otherwive, THANK YOU MY NEW SUITCASE ♥). The journey there was interesting though, we had just exited Kanayama Station (our closest JR station) when a horde of men walked past us wincing KAWAII! and repeating it again when Mia turned to look at them. (For those of you who do not know what 'kawaii' is, it's a word for cute, used e v e r y w h e r e.)

And after about 30 seconds we got a random guy trailing after us in the traffic lights, supposedly selling us the idea of internet cafe (like, we have HUGE SUITCASES, we probably are not going to want to go to an internet cafe now? Logic yeah), not realizing we also speak a little Japanese. That was a hilarious start for our stay.


Wednesday we went to visit Nagoya Castle, and the TV-tower of Nagoya, thus filling our cultural part of the stay. We also ran around the Osu distrct (shopping area) for quite some time.

Nagoya Castle:

TV-tower:

Osu area (photo from another day, we went during the evening so it was too dark to take decent pictures):

Our Thursday was spent mostly in Nagoya Station, where were these wonderful elitistic shopping centers (think of Gucci, Burberry, Chanel, Prada.... oh yes) where we wouldn't buy anything but spent the day window-shopping. And we ate STRAWBERRY CAKE at a really upscale cafe, paying only about 5€ for it.... I love the exchange rate, even when it sucks. (=It used to be a LOT better, but as Greece went bananas we got mixed in the consequences >8[ )

Friday we went around the Sakae area (on of the central areas) and, for a change, ended up shopping. We spent A WHILE buying underwear (I love Japanese shops *--*) and found shoes! I've no idea which shoes were bought when so I'll just add all the pictures at the same time (see above).