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Okinawa Slideshow
Okinawa
Travel Blogs from Okinawa, Japan
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... the onsen monkeys. So I went to Yudanaka. 3 hour ride on shinkansen to Nagano, then a local electric train to Yudanaka. Japan has changed much since I was younger, much easier to go to the toilet. Most have western sit down toilets…but how the ...
Reflections on squid and other Korean things
So we're done with Korea and just starting in Japan. After 23 days of squid and interacting constantly with the people and the country it's the little things that we noticed in Korea that really show us that this is a different land. Things like the ...
"I'll go if you go.."
So tonight was supposed to be a relaxing night after work. Using the age old trick of convincing your friends to go ( I'll go if you go), the relaxing night turned into a "you want to go for a beer night", into a "you want to go to an all you can drink ...
Yakushima 4: One mother of a hike
... we changed buses to one that would ferry us to the Arakawa trialhead for hiking to Jomon Sugi, the much heralded, oldest tree in Japan (at either 5000 or 7200 years old). More on this later. The hike to Jomon sugi is probably the biggest tourist ...
Home away from home
We were temporarily based in Okinawa for a couple of months before deploying with the 31st MEU ...
Back in Kokura for a bit.
Another long bus trip. This one 3 hours. From Nagasaki to Kokura. I hate busses. Finally get back though, in time for half my Japanese class. Always fun, and I get laughed at a lot for my Osakan dialect -_- Get back to the ...
And after the sun, again comes the rain
With a feast of noodles under our belts and Coffee drank we were off to Hakata station to reserve some tickets down to Kagoshima for later in the day as we couldn't check in to our accommodation until 1500, but as we were walking up the platform we saw a ...
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Also heute gings wieder mit den Shinkansen (hier ist plural gemeint... aber Shinkansens gibts ja nicht!) Richtung ganz süden, nachdem wir nur etwa 1 1/2 Std. geschlafen haben. Nach Sendai 川内 in der Nähe von Satsumasendai. Bin drauf ...