Monday 4 September
8.45 am
Sunset
Short night
4 hours
Kansai International Airport
Artificial island
Very bright weather
Train from Osaka to Kyoto
First questions
Where are you from?
Are you here on holidays?
Have you find a place to stay?
Kyoto

Utano Youth hostel
First coffee shop
First temple
Ninna-ji temple

Very tired
First public hot bath

First japanese room
Tatami

Cicada
Television

Waiting for an earthquake

Tuesday 5 September
Higashiyama-ku area
Maruzen bookstore
Yasaka shrine
Cyprus wood smell
Fountains
Chion-In temple
National Museum of Art
Dutch artists

Heian shrine
Night at 6 pm
Noodle bar in a street corner
Noisy bus
Hotel
Phoned Koko in Tokyo

Wednesday 6 September
Cycling in the west of Kyoto
Nison-In temple
Cats

Calm
Gioji temple
Sun burn
Crossing Togetsu-Ryo bridge
Japanese tourists
Photographs
Restaurant
Monkey

Hozu river
Ryoanji temple
Stone garden

Same noodle bar as yesterday
Habits come quickly
Smiles
Adopted
Phoned home
Night
Early morning in Europe

Thursday 7 September
Centre of Kyoto
Imperial Palace

Impressed
Kyoto Archaeologic Museum
New japanese western pastries
Design college on a hill
Overall view on the town

Weather very hot and humid
Bus
Kawaramachi-dori
Araki book
Goodnight

Friday 8 September
Last day in Kyoto
Higashi-Honganji temple

Nishi-Honganji temple
Nijo castle
Back to Kawaramachi-dori
Last night in Kyoto
We already miss the city
Washing machine

Saturday 9 September
Shinkansen for Okayama
Very very hot
Old fashioned Youth Hostel
But comfortable
Train for a small village
Imbe
Ceramics village
Storm is preparing

Rain
On TV
Iminant typhoon
In the Pacific
Restaurant in Okayama station
Train drivers and controllers
Few glances

CNRS french scientist

Sunday 10 September
Okayama garden

Peaceful
Cherry trees
Train for Hiroshima
Peace Museum


Monday 11 September
Miyajima island
Deers

Temple
Feet in water
Shell picking
Robot leaf shape cakes
Mount Mizen climbing

Hot damp forest
Effort
Spiders

Monkeys
Top
View on Hiroshima bay
Ferry boat
Big Mac on top of a building
Hiroshima is great

Tuesday 12 September
Departure for Kyushu island
Shinkansen for Fukuoka
Train for Kumamoto

Pyramidal wood castle

Last train for Aso
Active vulcano
Youth Hostel down the vulcano

Wednesday 13 September
No luck
Typhoon
Rain
Wind
Clouds
Train for Beppu
Hot springs
More than two hours journey
Natural hot water bath

Extremely hot water
Made it
Kanawa
Crocodile
Boiling water coming from Earth
Blue
Hell village
Relax
Back to Aso

Thursday 14 September
Mount Aso climbing
Rain
Wet
Refuge
Bunker
Extreme wind

Crater
Blue water
Sulphur
Coming down
Desert
Long walk
Little temple
1 mother cat and 5 little cats

2 hours

Friday 15 September
6.26 am
Aso train station
4.14 pm
Tokyo
Ryokan
Walk
Restaurant
Starck Asahi building
Street party

Saturday 16 September
Ginza
ggg Gallery
Yamaha building
Sony building
How to read a japanese address

Sunday 17 September
Shinjuku

Electronic supermarket

Biggest bookshop of Tokyo

Monday 18 September
Shinjuku
Tempura
See again Koko after one year

Train
Suburb
Tadanori Yokoo

2.30 pm
His studio
Famous leather sofa
Armchair with books
Questions
Answers
Yokoo writes his dreams
Always do what you want to do
Black eyes with make-up
Japanese icon
Pop star
Yokoo signed our book

Photograph
Later
Meeting with Koichi Sato

Fresh green tea
Bean cake on a leaf
Posters
Autograph
Photograph
Café with Koko
Thank you Koko for your help
Idea magazine
Meeting there
Graphic discussion with editor
Tokyo International Youth Hostel

Young Americans
on their Tokyo Disneyland trip

Tuesday 19 September
Shibuya
Hachiko to meet Koko
Harajuku
Shops
Laforêt store
Café with Koko
4 pm
Meeting with Norio Nakamura

Graphic designer
32 years old
Sony
Playstation
Autograph
Photograph

Wednesday 20 September
Kimi Ryokan
Ikebukuro
Tobu and Seibu shopping malls
Toyota showroom
Harajuku
Flâner
Meet Koko
Meeting with Makoto Saito

Concrete building next to JAGDA
French food
Wine
Extraordinary bad French prints
Japan-Brazil football match
Very kind
Autograph
Photograph
Fashionable restaurant
Bucket-lamps
Bruschetta sardine
Ryokan
Yukata

Bath
Television


Thursday 21 September
Shibuya
Tachibana Design

Arigato
Train Ueno

Yakitori
Architect
Ueno park

Goodbye Koko
Good luck

Friday 22 September
Last day in Japan
No money left

Saturday 23 September
Take-off