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Sat, 7 Jul 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [2267] | Comments [3]
Japanese baths are amazing. We decided to take it easy today. We took the Yurikamome Line (an elevated train line) to one of Tokyo's baths, Ooedo-onsen Monogatari. The journey was great, we got to see a side of Tokyo we hadn't been to yet and the ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Fri, 6 Jul 2007 | By phil | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 6 Jul 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [726]
Nothing much to report from today - we traveelled back from Kyoto after being based there for four days, and then just headed out to Ginza for a civilized night on the town - picture Ballsbridge rather than Temple Bar. Anyhow, the nightline of late night ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Thu, 5 Jul 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [641]
The picture above shows, what was until 6th August 1945, the Industrial Promotion Hall for the Hiroshima province (or prefecture as it is known locally). Since then it has become known coloquially and subsequently, officially, as the A-Bomb Dome .... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Thu, 5 Jul 2007 | By jamesanddan | Views [1334]
Another eventful journey - our bus decided to drop us in the middle of no where (almost), and we were definitely NOT up a mountain! We walked through Ebino `City`, which can otherwise be described as a ghost town (we literally saw about two cars and ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Thu, 5 Jul 2007 | By jamesanddan | Views [769]
After leaving Hiroshima, we headed south to Fukuoka/Hakata. We already had a fairly hectic train journey, with about 5 changes, so when our train decided to stop at an unscheduled station for over an hour we were pretty confused (and annoyed, we had ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wed, 4 Jul 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [609] | Comments [2]
Thank God for bus tours. Kyoto is too big to navigate in one day and it lashed rain. We left our umbrella at the second place we visited and didn't come across anywhere to buy a replacement until our last stop. So we got a bit wet. We really did ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wed, 4 Jul 2007 | By rachel | Views [654]
Sorry this has been so late coming, but as you all know I have not been able to uplaod my pictures and have had no internet. It's a shame as my memory card has been full and I have not been able to take any pictures. I have done a lot of sightseeing ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 3 Jul 2007 | By rachel | Photo Gallery
omiya training and Tokyo
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Tue, 3 Jul 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [590]
Our adventure today took us to Nara - a 45 minute Shinkansen trip from Kyoto - our current base. The very helpful lady in tourist information plotted a four hour walking tour for us, which we followed with primary school obedience, leading us through ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 3 Jul 2007 | By jamesanddan | Photo Gallery
From city to Wilderness!
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Mon, 2 Jul 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [536]
The guidebook tells you that Kyoto doesn't make a great first impression - true. You land in the middle of an area that looks not entirely unlike - er, well, any suburb of Dublin you wouldn't go to unless you fell asleep on the Nitelink. Walking around ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [641]
How many temples and shrines can you see in a day? More than you'd think - more, in fact, than you'd want to think about. Nikko is a town to the north of Tokyo that did, in the past, house a Buddhist training centre, and retains to this day some wonderful ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 | By jamesanddan | Views [1803] | Comments [1]
Hiromshima, actually quite surprising to us, is an amazing city, and if you didn't know its history and stayed away from the Peace Park you'd probably never know what happend here 61 years ago! The city is clean, modern and spacious, better than most ... Read more >
Tags: You HAVE to visit this place!
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [846]
The Asakusa area of Tokyo is famous for its Buddhist Temple and its buzzing markets - not a bad way to start the day then. Better still, rather than take the train back downtown, we were able to take a river cruise south along the Sumidagawa River which ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
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