DWC - Denim World Championships 2015 - 2017
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@Snowy Cheers. the drive up was pretty good. nothing like that in Perth. i use to go up to Cameron highlands in malaysia when i was in singapore to do uphill runs and that was very challenging. it was quite a short run, did the uphill run in about 19/20mins. either that or i was going a little too fast. The run up is not that challenging, beginner to low medium difficulty.. i counted about only 5 or 6 hairpin turns for this subaru line route. there's some pretty views and vantage points that are on the way up accessible only by car i presume.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–Z_T81XZTg
Here are a couple of videos while i try and find that lost full video of the full run. hopefully gopro didn't override it.
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10th Jan
Headed out to Setagaya to dropped a couple of boots of at brass for resoling. Wandered along the back lanes shooting and saw bear ponds espresso ( @Snowy )but will visit when i'm back in tokyo again. Then headed off to odaiba for the day, toyota megaweb and a visit to autobacs to look for jdm parts..
i'm in hokkaido now and will be hitting the slopes soon. i'll continue posting when i can
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@ louisbosco thank you so much for all the great images of your trip.
continued safe & fun travels
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wow nizzel, those look really good. loving the contrast on them..
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11th January
Took a visit to Yokohama today. Only had time for the ramen factory and cup noodle museum. will definitely be back. First time in yokohama, really lovely port city. Thoroughly felt inspired by the cup noodle museum and it's creator's history.
Had to have two bowls at one go from different stores. would've had a third if i could…
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Continued - Cup noodles musem
then popped over to chinatown for some random dinner…
will definitely be back in yokohama once i'm back in tokyo in about a week.
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Awesomeness,
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cheers guys, the pleasure is mine.
@Snowy yeah it's pretty brilliant. pretty inspired by his story. only bummer is that i didn't get to do the workshop that let's you make the cup noodle from scratch. have some unfinished business in yoko too, like the nissan engine museum. so will definitely pop back there..
@Giles yeah, i thought yokohama was far from tokyo initially, but it was closer than expected. what hotel is that you pointed out? can you even fish sea bass there or do you have to go out to sea though? also, i've booked shibuya grandbell due to your, what i remember, 'raving' reviews for when i get back to tokyo, so i'm curious to see how it is.
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Mmmmm! Sea Bass!
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That hotel was the Inter Continental I have not stayed there, but I had a meeting with Josh from Good Art there one morning, I arrived early so wandered around and saw some guys fishing from where the arrow points to. I suspect they were not fishing for Bass as Bass normally like very aerated rough water. But I know how they were fishing, so I will go back and give it a go.
If you catch the rapid subway, you can be in Shibuya in 40 mins from the station next to the hotel i sat in. The Monterey….
I stayed in the Granbel for one night last trip. Still my go to in Shibuya.....If you stand with your back to the front door and look up the hill, diagonally opposite is a Yakatori joint, you may see a queue outside, join the queue, you can't book...... Do it....
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ahh sweet. Thanks G. i'll do that yakitori place and report back. i'm usually further away from shibuya, in osaki. i reckoned that's what made my trip to yokohama a little quicker
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Has anyone else had problems with going through airport security with your heavyweights on? I can see the X-ray when I go through and I have had problems two times now where it looks like I have metal plates in my front pockets area. Of course they want to take a closer look, so I have held up the line while hundreds of people watch me get manhandled as they try to find something metal in the front of my pants… Of course they don't send the hot lady security guard to do it (if one exists). I was wondering if there is any traces of metal in the fibers of the pockets. I wore my sweat pants on the return flight today...
