Okinawa romance

Hello dear beautiful friends of mine!

I have been... doing a lot of things♡

HEHE.

I have decided to wander around the entire island of Japan over the next... year and a bit!

Let me introduce you this beautiful island Okinawa.

http://townske.com/guide/13642/without-knowing-okinawa

(I am also on Townske as your travel guide! ♡)

It was my very first time visiting Okinawa.

Simply saying... Okinawa was a huge color palette.

Started off my journey in Ikei island - East coast of Okinawa.

The sunrise and the reflection of the sun were nostalgic and I was drowning in the beauty of the morning.

Okinawa- where the water is translucently emerald green... 

How I wish I could dive! 

It was absolutely blessing to view the ocean from above.

It was the most luxurious thing I have done in a looong time...

American Village in the morning!

It loses its funkiness and full of fun! 

You can't tell how vividly gorgeous this place is at night, looking like an Easter show!

Kouri island where the romance comes true when you "desperately" wish for it...

You need to be desperate on that beach I heard.

Two heart shaped rocks and couples taking a selfie with them..

Love♡

No matter how many photos I post the picture pulls off different color, different tone and different atmosphere...

How blessing is this!

I fell in love with this sunset as the sun fell slowly behind the horizon...

Little Santorini I call it♡

Santorini is definitely on my to go list! :)

I LOVE the color white and surrounded in white,

this purely white place was absolutely stunning.

Staying there and feeling the whiteness was sheer bliss...♡

I was there super early in the morning so all I could do was walk around this beautiful open castle but

hope someday I can drop by a few of those cafes and relax on the terrace chair...♡

Okinawa has a strong sense in peace, and they are beautifully colored.

360 degrees, every where you turn, Okinawa shows you a whole different color you haven't mixed yet.

This enormous object in a kids park next to the Peace Memorial Park was my favorite!

There are wind turbines nearby and look at the colors of this object! Surrealistically beautiful♡

I tried to sneak into one piece and realized how big I was ... physically

(Mind still being a child though...)

I couldn't leave Okinawa without having these perfectly spheric ice creams at Blue Seal.

I heard that there are still Blue Seal stores in mainland Japan too, but it was extremely exciting to have those traditional ice creams in a warm, tropical weather.

I will be painting, singing with my beloved guitar and traveling this year, a lot.

I will update my blog on my journey, hope you enjoy, and find out something new...

Hope I can show you a brand new face of the world!

Wishing you a wonderful spring ahead!

Anna Kirishima

2016

Happy New Year!

Welcome 2016♡

No matter how hard the time could get,

in the end of the day, I always get to experience and feel someone's kindness.

It always makes everything I go through a day worth it.

I have been feeling this over the past number of years.

Hello!

I was back home for the New Years.

I wouldn't make this simply my diary of New Years,

I would rather want to track the color of the sky and water I have seen over the 2 days.

Hello a stretching man!

I liked his silhouette though, personally.

He might have felt really awkward having someone taking photos of him stretching for...

good 20 minutes.

First sunset of the year♡

I fell deep in love♡

Super early in the morning.

It was simply amazing.

It's like the time everything starts moving, getting back to a life.

It is the time of dawn when the sky is too bright for the stars to shine but too dark for the moon not to glow.

2nd of January 2016,

it was so warm and comfortable standing on the mountain.

The sunrise was a sheer grace and it did promise me a soft, tender year full of love and warmth.

And that got me totally determined,

to... this year, I will turn off my phone and chuck it in the drawer on the weekends.

It is written as a definition of "Day off" in the dictionary too.

I don't feel like anything has ended and started all over.

I would say... R.I.P. 2015, I needed you once, but I left you to move on.

2016 is like a stable boyfriend to me ( I know nothing about it yes ).

But I got this feeling that it will be flowing smoothly through the history

after having the most dramatic year - 2015... well it's just my feeling, though.

What a warm beginning of the year.

I might write "throw back to new years day" diary sometime later this year.

But for now, happy new year and I wish all of your 2016 be full of love and blessings.

Love, so much love.

Anna Kirishima