I tried, but when I arrived, the final train of the day has already departed for Miyajima, booo 
D5200, you can use the search functionality on this study log with this keyword to find a bit more about it, I tried writing more about it too!
This is a very unique setup and I’m really curious to see how the photos from it would look like, ping me when they start coming! ^^
…they are insanely good compared to the western world and I’m not even overexaggerating.
Uuu, that sounds really cool! 
I’ve set one rule for this trip though not to spend more than half an hour (Shinkansen layover) in Tokyo, so probably not this time, but I’ll definitely throw it on the pile of things I’m upset are not outside of Tokyo as well ^^
Nope, selection of a manga cafe! Think private library + reading room where you pay for the amount of time you spend in there, but you can do everything over that time, including reading their books ^^
i feel like such a boomer because I’m like “what? osaka? when was that? that was ages ago” xddd
(today at 12:30pm btw xddd)
Unfortunately, it’s one off payment and the only benefit is that it allows for you to go to any manga cafe across the whole country and pay less and not register yourself with the card again ^^
I hope I never get used to them and that they’ll always remain a novelty to me ^^
May 5th, 2026
- 37 reviews on WaniKani
- 27 reviews on Bunpro
- 2 lessons on Bunpro
- 11 min of Kanji Learner’s Course
- Book: 経験済みなキミと、経験ゼロなオレが、お付き合いする話。プロログ
So this is a book that both @Jintor and @shitsurei have been (i hope that) hate-reading for a while xddd
I’ve heard nothing but bad things about this book (well, there’s character development apparently!!!), so I decided to snag it from Book-Off and find out if I can join the fun xddd
It’s said to be an easier read than most of the other light novels, so I’m hoping I won’t need too many lookups to get through it, but I genuinely wonder how many words have I learned to misread just because I didn’t check their reading and was like “that’s gotta be the correct one, right?”
Life
Yes, I also was in Osaka today, Enigmaxprincex was right xdd
Shin-Osaka is an interesting place, because it’s really crowded, really busy… but also pretty small? It reminds me of if Berlin Hbf were smashed onto a single floor with 50% more platforms, 100% more people and 50% less space ^^
But I already got my money’s worth from the JR West pass I’ve gotten and it’s just day 2, so, woo, Hiroshima!
Had a cute ekiben today and some crisps that look like cracker crisps, but had a lot of sugar in them too, interesting taste ^^
And there we go! My first experience of Hiroshima has been a bit bizarre, because there are tram stations at the main Hiroshima station, and locked down trains stand there and you have to stand for 10 minutes and wait until something like 40 seconds before the departure to start boarding it, and before that there’s a line of like 100 people waiting to board it, why couldn’t they do it like in Germany and just keep the trains open at the first station of the line until the trains depart??? xddd
But hey, I arrive in the city center and there’s a huge 祭り going on today! In part, because of Golden Week/こどもの日, but its name is “Flower Festival” and has been going for the last three days ^^
So I did what I do best and I walked from stall to stall and begged them to give me freebies xddd
(Actually, the red doggo has been made by me, I was taught how to make one and followed steps to make it, so cute C:)
And because 広島 is the city where NHK is, the NHK had a day of open doors and a lot of attractions there! A stamp rally, autographs of celebrities, marketing for newest series, but from the really cool things: on one of the floors there was a TV broadcast stage where a script was put on a desk and kids could come over and read from the script, straight at a 4K camera, together with the news show interface, that was really cool C:
AND A STAMP RALLY, I got a cute document folder for finishing the rally ^^
Multiple times over the course of the rally I was asked to pose for pictures and people were taking pictures with me with different attractions related to NHK, which, like, eee, explaining how my camera works and why it doesn’t have zoom (35mm lens) has been interesting to do in Japanese ^^
And - fooooood, lots of food, I tried looking whether prices would differ for it between stalls, but no, they didn’t, get the banana at the beginning or the end, it’s always 400 yen, or 500 yen if it’s a Minion one 
Also, WOO I FOUND THE EMBASSY OF POLAND IN HIROSHIMA (i have no idea why xddd)
Setting sun has been absolutely beautiful here C:
Various pavilons…
I thought the yukata sets were pretty, but minor spoiler, I might get to wear one in like two days from now ^^
Also, Japanese learning section at the Book-off, I’m genuinely curious about this manga, but it was in plastic, so I couldn’t get to see what was inside ^^
…and this was when I ended up getting to the significantly less fun part of Hiroshima, because as it turns out, this is a city that did have a bit of a terrifying history.
Between a girl who wanted to make a thousand cranes, but leukemia after the explosion took her away faster than she finished those, a building upon which a bomb was dropped at such an angle to kill everyone, but make the walls stay, I’ve been reading the informational plaques and following the self-reported discussions of people being divided whether something like this should even exist or not, and being more and more… solemn? I think solemnity is the correct word to use in this specific context, I feel.
I went all the way to Yokogawa to grab some food today, as I really wanted to grab some 広島お好み焼き, and I did find them, it’s just that they were pretty far away xddd
And, tadaaah!
The person cooking them didn’t know any English, and even when I kept reaffirming him that 全部分かります、翻訳が必要じゃない, it took him a little to realize that I was speaking Japanese to him xdd
But it was a very lively and 賑やか place and people eating were bantering with the cook, and I started joining the banter and people were like “WOOOOOOAAAA”, they asked me a couple of questions about 大阪のお好み焼き, ポーランド, ベルリン and 明日の予定 and I was even able to say a few fun things about my culinary adventures, so hey, the adventure with DIO-Berry started opening me up ^^
I think I saw almost everything I wanted to see in 広島 for now, I have a really weird idea for what I could do tomorrow, and I hope I’ll be able to make it come true ^^
See you tomorrow!