Concert - restaurant - temple

Saturday night went to see another concert. This time it was Mo'some Tonebender, a punk/rock Japanese band who's been around for ages. Click here to hear a song from their last album and here to see what it looks like live.
The atmosphere was closer to a 'normal' concert with people dancing like crazy at the front. I stand next to a big guy, with whom you wouldn't mess with, just to get a safe perimeter. Even there, few claps then complete silence between songs, really can't get used to it. The band was completely crazy on stage, the strong boned bass player wearing leather shirt completely open, screaming, the singer twisting his face and throwing the microphone around, the electro guy moving around and posing, the drummer as if sitting on electric chair: great gig.

Sunday evening met up with some Japanese friends, an adorable couple who took me to the historic part of Fukuoka for dinner in a lovely restaurant.
Here are some pictures, first the outside, then the upstairs room where we ate and the food, a mixture of meat, vegetables, sashimi. Delicious!

On the other side of the street was a temple. The entrance was set up as a kami with open mouth for the Setsubun festival. We went there after dinner to have a look, pray and get our fortune told thanks to a little paper (in English!).
First and second photo show the entrance of the temple, the last one the view from inside the temple looking outside so you can see the inside of the head.

Afterwards we tried to go to a gaijin bar but ended up in an italian brasserie which looked like a French one. Strange but good panacotta. ^_^  It was an interesting and fun evening.

Now beginning of the week, only 3 weeks left in Fukuoka! It's going to be weird to leave behind all my friends but Carpe Diem, let's enjoy the present moment, i.e. going to study for my weekly vocabulary test this afternoon. ;-)