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Here's what I had for dinner, although I don't remember the place being that yellow!!
Here's what I saw before work : Ofuna Kannon
Dinner was nice. Haven't been to that fast food chain for a while. The staff is made up of high school kids which in any country other than Japan would mean you get slow service and unidentified objects in your food, but here in Japan it means they work like hell!
Ofuna Kannon is nice too, but I was reading the blurb about it and it cost something like 40 Million Yen ( 250,000 pounds )to make - I'm not really sure it's worth that. There are a lot of those big white Kannon ( Buddha of compassion ) around Japan, but I often wonder who they're for: No-one here that I know of is Buddhist. I mean a practicing Buddhist. There are probably about five in Japan! But I suppose it has the same effect as a church : It looks nice and makes you want to be more spiritual and kinder to people. And I suppose, praying infront of a statue hoping for your own happiness, or a friend's, is a nice thing. Hey, after all, it was worth the money!! I dunno, sometimes I don't know where to go with my opinions :-)
And here's my article published on Japan-guide.com. It's under Forums/Experiences/and my brother's punny title, "The Land of The Rising Fun" : http://www.japan-guide.com/
posted by PA on Thursday, June 10, 2004
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