Every new year, shimekazari, the decorations in the pictures, are hung up on all the buildings in Japan. I love them and snapped several pictures when I went for a walk a couple of weeks ago.

Here are some mobile pictures from January  I love all the potted gardens around in Tokyo. People might not have much space, but they keep on making the most out of the space they do have.

My friend came to visit from Norway, and she brought cheese doodles. I am in love with OLW cheese doodles.

And sushi. Always sushi. My diet conists of 50% crap and 50% super-healthy fish. I hope it evens out if you add it all together. I will probably get mercury poisoning sooner or later from all the tuna I have consumed.

And I love how even cheap and regular Izakayas have delicious food.

I smoked a water pipe in Japan for the first time. It tasted like raspberries, and it was quite good. I still quite don’t understand the fascination with water pipe bars, but it was a fun experience none the less.

I had messy hair all month.

I will always love these streets. It feels like home.

I bought a new necklace – it was on sale, and I absolutely love it.

Bad diet VS good diet. The bad deepfried kushikatsu was delicious. So was the sushi.

I finally finished another Moleskine notebook last April, but I never got around to photograph it until now. Click the picture to go to the gallery – it contains tons of pictures.

These lungs. (I should stop smoking.)

I had the opportunity to go to sumo again a couple of weeks ago. The sumo tournaments happen a couple of times a year in Tokyo, and last for 2 weeks each time. I first went maybe five years ago mostly because I wanted to experience something “Japanese”, little did I know that I ended up really enjoying it. There are tons of fights, they are fast paced and it is incredibly entertaining. This time around I was very lucky, a friend of mine managed to get excellent seats, and we were sitting all the way down in the front. That was a new experience for me, seeing all the facial expressions and muscle movement of the wrestlers. I don’t know how it works other places in Japan, but in Tokyo you can show up early the same morning as you want to go, and they always sell some cheap “nosebleed seat” tickets if you don’t want to spend a fortune for a ticket.