Miyazaki, Japan Travel Blogs

Winding down...
Apr 25, 2007 (15 photos)

... crabs, until I reached Kodomo-no-kuni, an amusement park facing the ocean. During spring, it is the main venue for the "Miyazaki Flower Fiesta" with a staggering 800,000 flowers on show, and sure enough it made for a colourful sight. Of course, this being ...

Craziness
Oct 16, 2007 (4 photos)

Unreal is only word I can use to describe the last 2 days.  Just a hint: 3 days in Japan = 3 nights of Karaoke!  We have been treated like rock stars since the day we arrived.  5-10 Japanese Rotarians are constantly shuffling us around to ...

Emergency Brakes and a Tiny Rental Car
Jun 5, 2008

... Even had deer come visit while we were in the outside onsen. Made a successful (thanks to the GPS) trip to our hotel in Miyazaki. Got on the JR train yesterday and toured south to Obi City where they have a city of old wooden houses and a Samari castle ...

Made it!
Oct 13, 2007 (1 photos)

... 4:20 am in the Eastern time zone.  I've been traveling since 7:30 am yesterday.  By the time I arrive in Miyazaki, I will have been traveling for almost 20 hours.  I noticed that during my trip through customs in Nigoya that the further I ...

Unreal Part II
Oct 17, 2007

... or Oliver in a given day.  Today was my first vocational day.  I toured 2 automotive parts manufacturers based here in Miyazaki.  One factory was very typical of what I would expect to see in America.  However, at the second factory, I ...

Surprise at the Airport!
Oct 14, 2007 (3 photos)

Ok!  I made it to Japan, however at the airport I was quite surprised to see 20 rotarians with a HUGE banner welcoming us to Japan.  I was not in any shape to meet anyone, but I didn't have a choice.  We were quickly shuffled off to our ...

Hunting for a Gundam and monjayaki
Aug 3, 2009 (16 photos)

... , one of my teachers recommended it after learning that I loved okonomiyaki.  You can only find it in the southern areas of Japan, and Tsukishima happens to be famous for having a lot of restaurants that serve it. Believe it or not, it took me an hour ...

The Bar Miyazaki
Sep 19, 2008 (9 photos)

... of nights last weekend at THE BAR. Its a bar in Miyazaki above the Pauls Smith Clothes shop not far from the main Miyazaki Station.�@The owner, Sean, from New Zealand has a great little establishment there. Its only been open for less than a year but its ...

Multi-Skilling in Miyazaki
Feb 28, 2000

... nbsp;                     MIYAZAKI   JAPAN                    & ...

Life is too short to spend it in cube land!
Nov 16, 2007 (16 photos)

... and new people every day, you can't say that for cube life!  We got to see how they grow crops from Tanzania to Japan.  We got to see what school's look like from Malawi to Nepal.  We got to see religious customs in Hindu, Shinto or ...

Thats all folks!
Nov 14, 2007 (22 photos)

... reminder of how friendly people are. After almost a month of enjoying the crisp air and fall colors of the hills of Japan, we arrived in Miyazaki, which reminded me more of San Diego CA, with its palm trees and beach sand, then the New England hills of ...

Sights of Nichinan
Dec 13, 2007 (9 photos)

Just some random photos of places around Nichinan, mostly near where the Nagatomo's live. Click photos for details.

Miyazaki
Sep 28, 1998

Ocean dome

5 Stunden Schlaf - 45 Stunden wach
Jul 3, 2009 (15 photos)

... wiederder mal die Konversation von neuem aufgegriffen... ich hab nicht so richtig mit gemacht. Was will der eigentlich 4 Wochen in Japan?  Geschlafen habe ich glaubs 30 Minuten. Definitiv zu wenig. Dann am Narita Airport mit etwa 30€. Ganzes ...

Baywatch Aoyama
Aug 28, 2009 (6 photos)

Heute sind wir nach _Aoyama gefahen. Surferparadis Japans und so. Lauter verfallene Hotels, indenen man super Horror Movies spielen koennte. Japanische Baywatch Typen gabs aber dennoch am strand. Da ist uns gleich wieder mal was passiert. Besser gesagt ...

The End is Koko!
Nov 14, 2007 (41 photos)

... , and saying "koko", which, it turns out, simply means "here".  We've come to the end of this little adventure, here in Miyazaki Japan, so this will be the last of the regular blogs, with one more grand ultimo summary coming up in the near future. I ...