J-Day 2015 ☆ [Düsseldorf]

Hey guys (^-^)v

as already announced in my previous entry,

this post will be about J-Day 2015 in Düsseldorf ! \(*-*)/

If you're also interested in last years J-Day, please have a look here (^-^)v 

Last year, we stayed in Düsseldorf from Friday to Sunday althought J-Day actually is on Saturday only. But with doing so, on Friday we had enough time to go shopping more peacefully and still could attend Saturday night's fireworks ♥

All the years before, when we just went to J-Day on Saturday, I had to get up at 4 a.m. and we could not even see the fireworks as our last train back home was at 7 p.m. That was horrible and so exhausting ヽ(＿　＿ヽ)

So we decided to stay in Düsseldorf again from Friday till Sunday.

Fortunately, this semestre I don't have school on Fridays, so we could move off quite early ^.^ Let's start on Thursday evening, when my mom and a friend of my boyfriend came to us to spend the night at our place so that we could go to Düsseldorf together ^.^

My mom also helped me colouring my hair pink again ♥

That was basically everything what was happening on Thursday as I had school until 5 p.m. and colouring my hair took about five hours (・・。)ゞ

The next day around 2 p.m. we finally arrived in Düsseldorf and went shopping right away xD Unfortunately, one of my favourite stores the japanese bakery 'My heart' was already nearly sold out.. they just had some 'anpan' (sweet buns filled with red bean paste) left of which I, of course, bought one ♥

 

In the two book stores I was looking for some japanese studying books but didn't really find what I was searching for, so I bought almost nothing on the first day..

But as my boyfriend and his friend stayed in another hotel than my mom and me (they couldn't decide in time if they wanted to join us..), he found some japanese restaurantes on the way I've never visited before.. and one of them sold RICE BURGERS ╰(✧∇✧╰)

 If you have already read this entry for example, you know how much I enjoyed the rice burgers at Mos Burger in Japan ♥♥♥ and now there was a store in Germany *Q*

You can get some rice burgers and more delicious food in the second restaurant of 'Takumi Ramen' which is called Takumi Tonkatsu & Gyoza

As usually in japanese restaurantes, there are very few vegetarian options available but the rice burger with vegetable tempura does neither contain meat nor fish. As the burger was only declared as meat-free and many Japanese don't really understand that vegetarian means you also don't eat fish, I asked the waitress if it contained fish. She didn't understand what I wanted when I asked in German, so I tried in Japanese.. and she understood and seemed so happy that I could speak a bit Japanese and also immediately assured me that there was no fish in this burger.

So if you're vegetarian, too: feel free to eat it ^.^

It was super-delicious *Q*

The next day, the actual J-Day, started with getting food 
at the Japanese bakery 'My heart' again ♥
Our hotel was just on the other side of the street, it took not even half a minute til there ^.^

delicious breakfast *Q*

No, I didn't eat all of this for breakfast xD
but also took some of them home with me ^.^

After breakfast, I dressed up and mom and I made our way
to meet my boyfriend and his friend.

First we bought some food and drinks in the japanese supermarkets near our hotel  and then we walked down to the Rhine where the actual festival is held. Like nearly every year at Japanday, we weren't lucky with the weather.. Most years it is cold and rains a lot, like this year, too (last year was really an exception x'D) But still it was very crowded..

look at all the dark clouds in the background o.o

one of the rare sunny moments x3

My mom doesn't like to have photos taken of her as she has the rare ability to always have a very strange facial expression.. but I needed to take a photo of her with her cool hide's parker I bought her in Japan x3

she didn't even notice I was taking a picture x3

The both photos above are taken at a small park near the Rhine were many cosplayers meet every year. We have benn waiting there for some of my classmates I wanted to meet but unfortunately they were more than an hours late and we had to wait quite long..
But at least I found some Taiyaki in one of the supermarkets before ^.^

they were sold at 'hanaro' for just 1€ *-*

When my classmates finally arrived, it started to rain heavily.
Many people left the park because it was really very very much water that came down o.o And after the rain it also got colder. As we all felt cold now, we decided to go back to the city and have some food to get warm again.. After the meal, we went back to the hotel to relax a bit until the fireworks started.

We were quite late at the fireworks because we had met some friends on the way, so I couldn't see that much and there are many people's heads in my pictures q.q

a heart ^.^

a shamrock ^.^

 The Japanese fireworks are so so beautiful *-*
My my phone camera is not fast enough to capture the best moments of it.. Maybe I should buy a better camera for next year x3 Howevery, as it was terribly crowded we needed nearly an hour to get back to our hotels o.o And after having a matcha cornet for dinner, I fell asleep right away.



Before we went back home the next day, I made some photos of what I bought the day before. But most of my purchase is food.. x'D

Koala no March cookies and mini dorayaki

Onigiri with carrots steamed in soy sauce

Matcha candy, panda cookies and strawberry pocky

more sweets ^-^ I haven't tried them all yet

new stationary goods (^-^)v

My boyfriend gave me these two cute Pokémon plushies, Dratini and Lapras, as a present ^-^ Aren't they adorable? ♥
Now I already have enough plushies to form a Pokémon team ! (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑

What about you? Have you been at Japanday, too? ^-^
So that's everything for today ♥
I hope I will find time to blog more the next month x3
Thank you for reading and see you next time (^-^)v

J-Day 2014 [Düsseldorf]

Hi there (^.^)v

last saturday it was time for every years J(apan)-Day in Düsseldorf \(^-^)/

I'm visiting it for some years now and I can definetly say:

this was one of the best j-days ever x3

This year we already arrived on friday,

one day before the actual event started and so

we had some time to stroll through the stores and buy things in peace

and not in so very owercrowded places like saturday ^.^

The first place we got to was the japanese bakery 'My heart' ♥

they sell so absolutely delicious pans and pasteries *Q*

this was my breakfast:

I really love the food from the japanese bakery ^.^

I wish I had one in my hometown, too..

next we went to some asian supermarkets and bought.... more food xD

I'm hoggish, I know q.q but J-Day is one of my rare opotunities

during the year to get to Düsseldorf and there you can find

so many more delicious asian and espacially japanese food

than in the stores around my area.

 

Furikake for rice

Soba noodles and taiyaki

a pair of chopsticks with the fitting case and an exercise book for kanji

Dorayaki and mini dorayaki x3

Green Tea candy, melon mochi and Koala cookies with white chocolate

Vegetable korokke and onigiri ♥

After this we strolled a bit through the city centre of Düsseldorf

and later we decided to drink a bubble tea at Sphere Bay ♥

(or better: I dragged the others to join me.. x'D)

I really wanted to try their Matcha Latte ^.^

My friend Nekoko's white peach tea and my matcha latte ♥

On our way back to the hotel we grapped some

dessert and dinner ^.^

yummy melon ice cream *-*

some kind of korean pancakes made of mung beans

 

On the next day we get up early in the morning

and dressed up for Japan-Day ^.^

First, we headed to bakery 'My heart' again to have breakfast ♥
then we went down the 'Immermannstraße' where all the
japanese and asian stores are located ^.^
 I bought taiyaki ice cream as second breakfast x3

 This is what I bought the second day:

delicious melon-soda

some korean snack and more mochi x3

more furikake and matcha-chocolate pocky

and cute fish lampion ^.^

Next we went to the actual festival at the Rheinuferpromenade ^.^
There was a stage where different martial arts were shwon 
during the day and we got to watch 'Naginata'.
I never heard of this before, but it reminded me of 'Kendo' x3

and then it was Phototime \(*-*)/ ♥

Nekoko and me ^.^

Fusion~!! my favourite pic x3

 and we met so many nice and cute people *o*

Jojo in her cute Luka cosplay (vocaloid) *-*

I met cute Kashi-chan *-*

two cuties we already met at AnCafe in Essen ^.^ she even made the nyappy-kigurumi herself *-*

two friends of Neko ^.^

And finally we met my friend and sister in mind: Haru ♥
she lives near Düsseldorf and we planned to meet,
but then her cellphone shut down and we were searching her with a sign x3

she has pink hair now, too *-*

And then we enjoined the concert of 'the Asterplace' together ^.^
sadly the technology was totally broken q.q
barely two out of five microphones worked, so the vocalist 
had a really hard time... it made me so sad Q_Q
but nevertheless the band seemed to have fun and so did the audiance x3
I hope they come back soon and that everthing works better then ^.^

 After this concert we headed for the main stage to see another concert:
'Crow x Class'
 the description sounded so interessting:
"the first visual kei band who plays traditional japanese music instruments only"
and it was so amazing ヽ( ★ω★)ノ
I really loved their music ♥
and they talked much in german, so cute x3

 
here is an example of their music ♥

after the show I even had the chance to took a photo together with Shion *-*
(the one on the right, who plays the koto)

and right after the concert ended, the fireworks started ^.^
we were still in the middle of the concert area
and so I didn't have the best view..

and this was my amazing Japan-Day ^.^
thanks to all who took part in it ♥

see you next time (^.^)v