Last night we went to a really great party at Yanedan, the artist commune outside of Kanoya. Great food and company, and we roasted a pig! Here's Tyler keeping watch over the roast.
After the party ended we decided to make a go of it in Kanoya's most happening area...
I realized last night that I haven't actually taken any pictures of us out in Nakamachi. The highly exciting (not) drinking district in Kanoya. Probably because it's a pretty sad place, and it takes a large amount of self motivation and heavy drinking to actually have a wild night out here (although it's been done).
The area consists mostly of snack bars. These are tiny bars that charge a flat fee for an hour of all-you-can-drink, and lure you in (some people anyhow) with snack girls: kind of like call girls, or the modern (and much trashier) version of geisha. On any given saturday night, Nakamachi is crawling with boozing young men in business suits, attached to the arms of snack girls wearing impossibly tall plastic heels and impossibly long fake eyelashes. It's a sight to behold really, and one must take it as a "cultural experience", or be driven to deep depression when considering the sad lack of night life in Kagoshima.
Mil and Alex considering the many bars in Nakamachi. Options include "Aaliyah", "Dear Rich", "Carrot" (where they actually have carrots hanging from the walls), "septem-BAR", and "Jam" (a personal favorite).
The view down from the third floor of snack bar central. Below, a snack girl strides by in a floor length neon pink polyester dress.
Maybe the best part of the night! Kousuke-kun shows us where to get great niku maki (rice balls wrapped in meat).
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