Articles populaires – Noemi Noemi

23 septembre 2015

Silver Week in Izu

The Izu peninsula is one of the Tokyoites' favorite weekend destination. Atami, the entry spot of the area, is located only 40 minutes from Tokyo by Shinkansen. Then, you need to leave the world of fast and comfortable public transportation to enter the...

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Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, holidays, mountain, river, autumn, nature, izu, hiking, pure, beautiful, fall, izu kogen, jogasaki, kawazu, kawazu nanadaru, landscapes, september

25 février 2013

IMA 2 years Anniversary Party

Intrepid Model Adventure (IMA) is two years old! As we never miss an opportunity to invade the Pink Cow party space at Roppongi, to eat delicious veggie meals, to sing powerful songs and to raise money for Tohoku, well, we decided to do it all again....

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Tags: japan, tokyo, music, friends, light, concert, beauty, love, song, roppongi, IMA, energy, antinuke, candles, joy, mickael jackson, parliament, pink cox

25 octobre 2014

Have a break in Lisbon

Sometimes your friends get married. And sometimes you decide that the best way to celebrate a bachelorett party is to fly to Lisbon. Mid-october and it felt like summer on the beach at Cascais. People were smiling, the old town was elegant, food was delicious,...

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Tags: colors, holidays, europe, fun, friends, love, city, south, wedding, happy, friendship, lisboa, lisbon, october, portugal

29 novembre 2014

Dye and die

When you stay for a long time in Japan, you understand why the philosophy of this country can be summarized as "let it die in all its glory". This is a civilization of paper, not stone. Joy, relationship, love, life : let it die in all its glory. Something...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 06:29 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japan, colors, season, tokyo, beauty, autumn, trees, red, yellow, nature, yoyogi, koyo, leaves, contemplation, philosophy

18 janvier 2015

Good morning, Saigon

So I spent the New Year holidays in Vietnam. I wanted sunny, perfumed, exotic and unexpensive holidays - girls be ambitious - so I booked a cheap flight to Ho Chi Minh City, aka Saigon. Saigon from the ground I have to say : there is nothing left of the...

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Tags: new year, holidays, travel, food, Asia, city, south, busy, ho chi minh city, saigon, vietnam, exotic, noisy, old, town

31 décembre 2012

Once again in France for Christmas

When I get back to Paris for Christmas, a huge tree is waiting for me in the living room. When I get back to Paris for Christmas, my sister comes to live at my parents' place to spend more time with me. When I get back to Paris for Christmas, I go to...

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Tags: Paris, colors, new year, france, Chrismas, family, friends, light, beauty, love, tea, theatre, noel, mariage frere

27 mars 2013

Hip hip hip Sakura

Yeaaaah, I know, every year at the end of March this blog is invaded by white and pink cherry blossoms. And I tell you again and again how beautiful it looks, how poetic it is, how painful too - because of this Japanese syndrome of contemplation that...

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Tags: japan, colors, tokyo, Yokohama, spring, beauty, cherry blossoms, sakura, aoyama, megurogawa, pink, yoyogi, roppongi, ohanami

23 septembre 2013

Climbing Mount Mitake

After the sea, the mountain! Mount Mitake is a 929 meters high mountain located 90 minutes away by train from Tokyo, and a great playground for the city rats. The perfect week-end deal when you are looking for fresh air and green landscape. Take your...

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Tags: japan, tokyo, holidays, friends, green, mountain, nature, weekend, walk, fresh, hiking, mitake-san, mount mitake, oxygen

16 mai 2015

Art of Green - Nezu Museum Garden

There is nothing like Japanese gardens to make you worship the beauty of nature. "You know, it is a beautiful Japanese dream" said Vincent van Gogh to his brother, talking about his project of painting purple irises. At Nezu Museum, irises are blooming,...

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Tags: japanese, colors, garden, tokyo, holidays, Omotesando, light, spring, beauty, green, nature, weekend, Nezu Museum, iris

24 septembre 2015

Shuzenji little paradise

I am not done with Izu's magical places. Shuzenji is a gem for traditional atmospheres' lovers. As the town is a famous hot spring spot, people are walking the streets wearing yukata and old-style fans. Bamboos and red bridges, buddhist temples achieve...

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Tags: japanese, colors, holidays, autumn, red, nature, yukata, izu, greens, beautiful, fall, bamboo, shuzenji, silver week

5 août 2013

Eastern Great Blue - Sky Tree

In Tokyo, I am a Western girl in two different ways : as a European, and as a Shinagawa-ku resident. Meguro, Ebisu, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Den-en-chofu, Ookayama, Futago-Tamagawa, Jiyugaoka, Asagaya, Ogikubo, Eifukucho are my usual playgrounds. Tokyo East...

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Tags: tokyo, yummy, sea, asakusa, summer, penfriend, peace, river, sky, weekend, blue, east, sky tree, unagi

4 décembre 2015

Mejiro Teien Secret Garden

If there are fairies in Tokyo, they must live in Mejiro Teien. Imagine a mysterious little garden surrounded by the darkness, with dramatic light-up on the autumn foliage and ghosty reflections in the water. This little gem feels like a different world....

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 09:35 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japan, colors, garden, tokyo, beauty, green, autumn, red, nature, golden week, leaves, mejiro, reflection, teien

7 décembre 2015

Winter will never come

This year, the red and gold autumn foliage has been slow to quietly invade Tokyo. It is almost mid-December, only two weeks from Christmas and still, it seems that Nature is not ready to sleep. Let us play outside! Let us enjoy the sunshine! shout the...

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Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, beauty, city, autumn, red, yellow, nature, gingko, leaves, foliage, momoji

16 octobre 2013

Made in Taïwan

Made in Taiwan. This is written everywhere on your clothes, your shoes, your batteries, your toaster. Half of your world comes from the other side of Earth. But Taiwan is nothing like an open-sky workshop sending cheap stuff to the Western countries....

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 06:51 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: colors, holidays, fun, friends, yummy, beauty, Asia, city, nature, trip, taipei, taiwan

25 avril 2014

Nezu Jinja azaleas

How could I have spent 5 spring seasons in Tokyo without paying a visit to Nezu Shrine (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) when the tsutsuji (Japanese azaleas) are blossoming? It's just like... like... A herd of pink and white sheeps. Strawberry-vanilla bushes. A matress...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 16:59 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, spring, beauty, nature, flowers, shrine, ohanami, bunkyo, nezu, parc

4 juin 2014

A Taste of Broadway

And so I went to New-York City. Before I show you the skyscrapers, the yellow cabs, the green face of the Statue of Liberty and the lights of Time Square, here is the project that Sonyan and myself have been working on while visiting the city... One day...

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Tags: art, photo, holidays, fun, friends, movie, city, cinema, trip, new-york, usa, broadway, stars

30 novembre 2014

Pure gold made trees

Gingkos are back this autumn, blonder and brighter than ever ! I love them even more than the red momiji. I can't imagine anything more joyful than their yellow leaves on pure blue sky. They warm up the city, bringing light at every corner. Icho-namiki,...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 14:59 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, holidays, beauty, autumn, blond, trees, nature, golden week, gingko, koyo

1 avril 2014

Cherry up!

Every time, the same emotion, the same amazement. Sakura are just like Christmas: you perfectly know how it looks and how it feels, but you get mad about it every single year. You can't help falling in love with it. You can't help worshiping it. Any park...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 17:18 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japanese, shinjuku, tokyo, spring, beauty, cherry blossoms, sakura, park, nature, pink, white, pure, shinjukugyoen

10 septembre 2014

Odaiba Ombré Variation

Sometimes, when you need to remember why you settled so far from your roots, there's nothing like a beautiful skyline. In Tokyo, the best spot to contemplate the glow of the city in the fading sunshine remains Odaiba's beach. Admire the gracious arch...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 05:20 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japan, colors, tokyo, night, light, beauty, Asia, city, peace, beach, odaiba, rainbow bridge, skyline

6 août 2014

Summer holidays in Nagano

Nagano: for me, it will always be the Winter Olympics, an eternity ago, when I was a child. White snow storms on the TV screen; freezing French reporters lost in translation. But in summer, the area of Nagano looks as green as Ireland and smells like...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 08:11 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ueda, japan, holidays, fun, friends, countryside, green, summer, nature, hanabi, relax, nagano, barbecue

5 avril 2015

50 shades of sakura

By day, the yearly Japanese cherry blossom phenomenon makes Tokyo look pure as snow. The white flowers are the city's wedding dress. But at dawn, you can enjoy the pink, orange, blue and gold shades of the mighty sakura. Ready for the most voluptuous...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 15:25 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japan, colors, tokyo, night, light, spring, beauty, cherry blossoms, sakura, Meguro, megurogawa, pink, urban life

9 mai 2015

Tokyo spring - Light & Shadow

So the sakura are gone, weather is unstable, we are expecting the rainy season to start in a few weeks and a pityless summer heat to follow... But let's cheer up, because Tokyo at spring can be so beautiful. As a flower maniac, I go where it blossoms....

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 09:45 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: colors, garden, tokyo, holidays, spring, green, park, golden week, flowers, perfection, peony, ueno, sunshine

9 avril 2013

The Big Green

The sakura season is over, but bringing even more light in the spring sky, here are coming the new green leaves! At the very end of the Inokashira line (access from Shibuya), at Kichijoji station, Inokashira Park looks like a green paradise with its long...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 10:26 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: tokyo, spring, water, beauty, green, peace, nature, lake, kichijoji, inokashira park, kanda river, kandagawa

11 juin 2013

My first song with Pretty Pop

Dear readers, today, I need you to open not only your eyes and minds, but also your ears! Here is my first single with the Japanese label Pretty Pop, which promotes synth music for your entertainment. The music and edition are signed by Ken K, and I added...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 04:31 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japanese, fun, Noemi, song, counting sheep, debut, label, pretty pop, release, singing, sleepless, synth

16 novembre 2013

Red & Gold Tragedy

Last week on the Japanese morning news, between two essentiel pieces of information like where to find the best pop-corn in town or which combini is offering the most competitive pumpkin pudding, there was a program about this year's autumn leaves. Be...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 09:37 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japan, colors, season, tokyo, beauty, love, autumn, trees, nature, koyo, showa kinen park