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Nachikatsuura Slideshow
Nachikatsuura
Travel Blogs from Nachikatsuura, Japan
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Happy HALLWEEN?
This is a top pick! ... Exercise Meet), starting as young as Preschool and continuing until High School. These are highly ritualized events (like everything in Japan) in which each grade competes in different events such as running relays, tug of war, etc. There is marching in ...
A week of fun with Leila!
This is a top pick! Leila and I arrived back in Katsuura and I went to school as usual during the week, when I got home we went on mini-excursions in the afternoons. Day 1-2: bike tour around town, trip to the super center to buy food for the week, took the day off ...
Weekened at Home/Hiking Ancient Pilgrammage Road
This is a top pick! ... he kept hitting his head against the side of the bucket, so we let them go :) There are 40 kinds of blow fish caught and grown in Japan and 10,000 tons of blow fish are eaten each year! There is an old Japanese expression, "I want to eat fugu, but I don't ...
Same Same But Different!
This is a top pick! ... , grilled slightly with a blow torch), and tamago (egg over rice). There are countless local festivals (matsuri) in Japan because almost every shrine celebrates its own one. Most festivals are held annually and some last ...
First week of school!
This is a top pick! ... 15 minute walk which I was told was a "shortcut." Some shortcut! These streets are so small in this town it's like the Venice of Japan. And just like in Venice there are no street names or signs so you kidna just learn your way around I guess? So here I ...
I need your help!
This is a top pick! ... is "to support rural Cambodian communities through greater educational opportunities and increased access to education." Before coming to Japan, I wasn't familiar with any of the countries in South East Asia, but after living here for over a year ...
Is this sanitary?
This is a top pick! ... be done, AND people have to go #2 and then use a small brush to scrape it and give a sample to the lab!! GROSS!! In Japan poop has a lot to do with health. Apparently doctors are almost as likely to order a fecal sample as well as a urine sample when you ...
Meet the mayor, trip to K's Denki, Welcome B-B-Q
This is a top pick! ... replied, "Oh I don't know!" 3 men welcomed us in Japanese and said something along the lines of 'we are happy you are in Nachikatsuura town, please work hard teaching, good luck!' THEN....it was our turn to introduce ourselves...we did an okay job, but we ...
Welcome to the jungle! (my town)
This is a top pick! ... 45 minutes or so and Shima-san would say "Let's have a rest" which we learned quickly meant cigarette break. Everyone smokes in Japan..well mostly men. And you can do it inside, wherever..The whole ride to our town we were speaking in broken English and ...
day trips, christmas parties
This is a top pick! ... bodies (Japanese snowmen have 2). As far as I can tell Christmas isn't anything except another Hallmark holiday in Japan. Being a country so obsessed with anything cute that's animated/cartoon, the Japanese obviously love "Santa-san," reindeer, ...
Ski trip, omiyage, and other random things....
This is a top pick! ... her I would be staying for 2 years. She gasped and goes, "You're staying HERE?" haha that made me laugh, I guess Nachikatsuura is about as different from Tokyo as you can get. School stuff: -Made Quesadilla's with two 6th grade classes in their ...
Typhoons, Earthquakes, and a Nuclear Leak!
This is a top pick! ... via email) ala high school yearbook style for things such as: Mr and Mrs.Wakayama, Best Japanese, Most Likely to Never Leave Japan, Biggest Drinker and Karaoke Superstar. The evening ended with a 3 hour karaoke stint which was lots of fun as usual. ...
I wore a kimono!
This is a top pick! ... same day I had a minor mishap with my hair. Most of you know that I get my hair highlited, but since coming to Japan that has obviously stopped due to a large language barrier/japanese people's lack of knowledge of western style hair (texture/color). So ...
Thanksgiving, Weekend in Hiroshima!
This is a top pick! ... a map in a classroom, to put the country in which you live, in the middle of the map. it just seems a little off to see japan, a tiny country, in the middle of the world map. -also never thought about how little worlds like "Ummm" or "soo..." or "yeah" ...
Tea Ceremony Lessons/Hiking at Nachi-san waterfall
This is a top pick! ... yes, there are millions, men and women, rich and poor, belonging to a hundred or more different tea persuasions, in every corner of Japan. Every week, all year round, they go to their teacher for two hours at a time, sharing their class with three or four ...
The month of Fire Festivals!
This is a top pick! ... respect the elderly and doing this gave them a better understanding of what life would be like under these different circumstances), Japan's aging population is growing rapidly. This gives the students an opportunity to learn to deal with the elderly. In ...
Golden Week in Japan!
This is a top pick! ... , the reigning Emperor before, during, and after World War II), Constitution Memorial Day (commemorates the date on which Japan's postwar constitution took effect), followed by Greenery day (for friendship with nature and gratitude for its blessings) and ...
Somali pirates attack Japanese ship!
This is a top pick! ... ohh poor (literally, it's also apparently the second poorest state in the country!) Wakayama. Recent Interesting news from Japan... 1. Heroes star Hayden Panettiere visits the town next to mine to protest dolphin and whale slaughter! Go Hayden!! ...
Sakura Season and Japanese Baseball!
This is a top pick! ... over. Despite this disaster the city has recovered well, and 10 years later is again thriving and remains one of Japan's top 3 ports. Also this month was SAKURA time! Sakura is Japanese for cherry blossoms, and they are one of the most ...
Full Moon Cakes on the Beach/Matsuri's!
This is a top pick! ... , and modelled on Prussian-style naval uniforms. 2 weekends ago another ALT, Party had some friends visit who are studying abroad in Japan. I drove the other Southern ALT's up to Gobo City (about 3 hours north) and we hung out at a small beach in ...
Exploring our town....
This is a top pick! ... rings throughout town, the lights are turned off in our office, and they turn on baseball. Theres a huge highschool baseball tournament in Japan going on right now and they are all obsessed with it. Our prefectures team is actually in the FINALS! So the ...
Nachi Waterfall, Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage
... Temple of Nagoya. The first destination of the day was the Nachi Waterfall. It is the tallest straight waterfall of Japan at a height of 133m. Compared with waterfalls of the world, it is not so tall, but the scenery with a vermilion-lacquered ...
Nachi: Kumano Kodo's End
... get to the actual shrines and views. One of the main reasons why Nachi has such a famous shrine is that it abuts Japan's tallest waterfall. Worshippers set up stakes next to the falls to pray to the spirit in the water. An especially ...
omfg this place is beautiful
... -san was the only place i couldn't get (continuous) service. I have a blackjack 2 from cingular. i had service all over japan. everywhere. data too. i was google mapping our location in tokyo, kyoto, nagoya. jes had a blackberry world edition (from ...
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