Saturday, July 31, 2010

京都 四条/カフェ

Ok, I "cancel" my doubt from the previous post, and decide to write a new one after dinner - as I have fell in love with this city after night falls! 

Had dinner at a cafe, that was converted from an old house of Kyoto. It's filled with beautiful illustration of bears, and also a lot of architecture related books. The shop owner/designer must be some crazy architecture fanatics or an architect.... and Japan always make me fall in love with architecture, their architecture is just different from the rest of the world. They must also have a very very ging publishing/printing industry, all their posters are so nice, every tiny city has beautiful posters at the JR station...
I guess it's like Spirited Away (same from Izumo-shi) everything is closed under the bright sunlight, but as night falls, and lanterns are lit, everything comes to life. When at Shimane, there were also a lot of other things that reminds me of Spirited Away!
Once again, it couldn't be explained in two dimensions, it's the politeness, smell of the wood, texture, the content of the books, petit flowers, the music that adds up.....
Bike back to the home along the dark alleyways .... so calm and quiet, the old lady has already laid the bed for me in my tatami room....

1 comment:

wydes said...

totally wanna retired now =]