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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | By bobandcie | Views [639] | Comments [2]
salut les amis comme promis les commentaires francais: bon bon par ou commencer les sacs sont fait l'avion est pret et on decolle. on arrive a Osaka vers neuf heure du soir et a defaut de trouver l'auberge reservee on se decide sur un p'tit hotel ... Read more >
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [1085] | Comments [1]
Monday 14th & Tuesday 15th April
We were told to be up got breakfast at 07.30 or risk losing out on food that morning as we had a tighht schedule to stick to on the way back to the mainland. It was a much better ... Read more >
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 | By susanandlars | Views [1088]
We rose early and went for a walk aroudn Takayama before our train north. We've been rising early since getting here, the better to take advantage of the daylight. Our train wasnt til 11, and check-out at 10, not that anyone would care. In Japan you ... Read more >
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 | By bobandcie | Views [824] | Comments [4]
Ladies and gents, so far so good. Plane trip was uneventfull...better then what we expected with jetstar. Osaka airport`s runway goes into the sea. It was nighttime and the black hole of the water reflected all lights on shore. As told later this ... Read more >
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 | By susanandlars | Views [1238] | Comments [1]
My brother-in-law has a T-shirt that puns, "Come to Ithica it's Gorges", or take the train to Takayama. Indeed the guidebook's bad pun was not off the mark. While the ride from Tokyo to Nagoya was interesting, you never really leave urban ... Read more >
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 | By susanandlars | Views [1100]
Friday we spent a couple of hours over breakfast at the hostel. Susan was working the logistics for the next few days while I wrote the blog. To a Japanese the word “vacation” is almost synonymous with “Onsen”. An onsen is a natural hot-spring and ... Read more >
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 | By shanglee | Views [1209]
The day has come to try the REAL raw fish. Throughout my short stay in Tokyo, I've been dreading this day. Tokyo has been a wonderful city. To me, Tokyo is bright lights, pretty girls and the city that never sleeps, well part of the city anyway -... Read more >
Tags: food, japan, tokyo, walk
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 | By roxyfish | Views [795]
Ok, I have done many, many things since I last updated this journal so here goes. Let's see if I can remember it all! Where is my diary of daily adventures. February 24th First thing. I went hiking to ... Nyutsuhime Shrine. To get there we took ... Read more >
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 | By courge | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 | By greenalligator | Views [4229] | Comments [3]
6am and I am standing in Tokyo train station, pretty much alone. I discovered quickly that its incredibly hard to squeeze into a toilet cubicle the size of a phone box with a 75 litre pack and two additional day packs. I sat in the foyer and ate my ... Read more >
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 | By allwelcome | Views [1680]
He was 9 months old when we moved to Japan. His first sentence was 'mitte! oki traku!' (look, a big truck) He went to a Buddhist pre-school. We lived beside the Priest of the near by temple. I remember coming home from work and seeing him on the Priest's ... Read more >
Tags: children
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 | By foxba2s2on | Views [587]
The most popular question that has been asked to me since my return from Japan was which is better? Japan or China. Now this is a difficult question to answer only because it was two very very different trips. When I went to China I was a senior ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 | By pjscheck | Views [1913] | Comments [2]
Tokyo has been fun. My first night here, my buddy and host, Travis, took me to hang out with a Japanese family. They first treated us to a ramen dinner, then we played with their two young sons in English to help reinforce what their mother, Shinobu, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 | By pjscheck | Photo Gallery
A selection from the 300+ photos I've taken in Japan. Yes, I'm that girl. Enjoy!
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Mon, 11 Feb 2008 | By roxyfish | Views [676]
Well I
finally did it. I finally jumped back in the water again as a scuba diver after
3 years and 4 months of staying 'dry'. Why have I wasted so much time?! Scuba
diving is fantastic and I love it and well lets just say I caught the diving
bug ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
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