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Back at the hotel we discovered this warm-food vending machine. It had tons of food for fairly cheap prices all hot and ready. Here's me
taking some chicken and fried potatoes.

...And next day I finally got to try my long-longed treat, taiyaki (from the same machine). 83 It had red bean paste inside and that I didn't
really like, actually the mere memory makes me feel a bit sick, but I'm still convinced to give it another try if I find some chocolate- or
anything-that-isn't-redbeanpaste-filled taiyaki.
(My shirt says "baka gaijin" for anyone who wonders. XD)

Had nothing to do that day, so decided to check out Kyoto International Manga Museum. It was mostly thousands of books in the
shelves as well as a couple special exhibitions, but the point was that you could freely read anything off the shelves. It was actually
really nice, there was international manga too (with some Finnish Emma and FMA and what-not too XD). I really liked the place, I
started reading some manga but as I figured I shouldn't spend the whole day there I had to leave after an hour or so. :'(
I looked somehow weird here so decided to censor myself, it's not like I'm the point of the picture anyway.

The whole outside area was reserved for people laying on the fake grass reading manga. It was really beautiful, the weather was really
pretty that day too. There were also people raising some koi flags, so took a photo.

We found a toilet with yet another feature: "flushing sound". XD Honestly, I'm not going to be surprised if one day these toilets even
wipe your ass for you.

Mom took a photo of her dream job: sitting in the street corner holding an advertisement sign. XD Seriously, there were several times
when we found people doing jobs that couldn't even be called jobs, like three guys waving flags as a sign for cars to slow down for the
toll even though they could have well had a simple sign take care of their job. But as I said to mother, they've somehow got to employ
their 130-million-head population.

Different country, same old celebrities.

Found some wonderful otaku stores and bought my weight of doujinshi (or tried to, mom pointed out that we could only take 50 kg
overall to the plane so I left a lot of them behind). Mom snapped a photo of me coming from Animate.

The Boss advertisement amused me as I've seen one of those commercials with Tommy Lee Jones, the one where he was in Akihabara.
XD (See it here.) Next to that you can see one of the drink machines that were everywhere, you couldn't go anywhere without seeing
tons of them on your way. Damn how I missed them back in Finland.

Back at the hotel, the evening of our last day in Japan. Here's Kyoto as seen from our window.

Alright, time to go to my favorite part: my shoppings. >83 These photos don't have all the stuff I bought, there were also souvenirs as
well as tons of figures and what-not mom and I bought to sell in Finland for a higher price (come on, I need to get money to go back in
August XD), but anyway.

Here's the first part. Here you can see the t-shirt ("baka gaijin"), random magazines and their extras, 23 doujinshi (9 x Bleach, 8 x Death
Note, 2 x Harry Potter, 2 x Yami no Matsuei, 1 x Haruhi Suzumiya, 1 x Comic Party), manga (Oyasumi Pun-Pun (♥) and What a Wonderful
World being among them, I was most glad to see that Asano Inio seemed quite appreciated in Japan) and some tabi socks.

The second part with figures and stuff. A Totoro plushie I fell in love with at Animecon but couldn't buy as it was too expensive, now
got it for 60 % cheaper, pocky, the Lucky Star mini Nendoroid figures, otaku cans, maid cookies, a charm that ensures luck in school,
and some little stuff.

When I go back to Japan I need to get more of these, I got most addicted to them. ♥

Cans once more: an Evangelion one in the middle and then random ones bought from this one maid shop (it was like a normal shop with
otaku stuff and all kinds of little cute stuff but it was maid themed and the clerks were maids, it was quite cute ♥). Don't ask how they
tasted, I bought them for the cans instead of whatever was inside, mom drank 2 1/2 of them (I tried to drink the one far left, but it didn't
exactly flatter my taste buds x3).

And at the airport, ready to leave. Buh-bye Nippon, I'll be back soon~

Our Moomin plane. XD All Japanese people stopped to take a photo of it when we got off the plane so mom and I joined them.

...And the photo report ends here. It was quite awesome a trip to say the least, can't wait to get back there this August for Comiket,
there's a good chance it's going to be even more awesome. >:3

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