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Fukuoka Slideshow
Fukuoka
Travel Blogs from Fukuoka, Japan
Slum Ministry
For the past 2 days, we partnered with Mercy Ministries which is a part of Africa Renewal Ministries. We went into 3 different slums (Kabalagala, Kibuli, and Kawempe) and took bags of vitamins and food including rice, beans, and maze to different ...
Kohti Kyushun saarta ja Fukuokaa
... kutsuvat auringonpaisteeksi, uskallauduimme ulos kaduille tarkoituksena löytyy yatai-ruokakojuja, jotka valmistavat tonkotsu-ramen nuudeleita, joista Fukuoka on tunnettu, kuten kaikki tiedämme. Kaupungin halkaisee joki, joka erottaa sen kahteen osaan ...
Good life
After our awesome safari we spent a few days in kampala, during which time we were stopped once agai by the police, legit this time for going the wrong way downa 1 way st. By the time we paid 10.000 shilling we had miraculously become missionaries doing ...
Friday in Gujo Hachiman!
... of things about sumarai and I pointed out the local shrines and temples for him from the look-out points. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5934.html I got lost again looking for my favorite bridge- the bright orange one on the little Kodara ...
Seattle
Walking to my hostel the first thing I noticed was the steep hills, it was impressive to see so many people cycling up slopes that must have 30-35 degrees - as an aside I remember that statistic about Australia being fatter than America, and no one ...
It's Torii-time
Von Kawaguchiko nach Kyoto sind wir erst mit dem Bus und anschliessend mit dem Shinkansen gefahren. Shinkansen nennt sich der Hochgeschwindigeitszug der Japaner, ähnlich dem TGV oder ICE. In Kyoto hatten wir ein recht schönes Guesthouse mit ...
Tree Day
... following: "When you climb up stairs, look up --" Do we really need to be TOLD these things? I gaped. Instructions in Japan sometimes seem to be intended for mentally challenged children, but this was beyond anything I'd heard before. "-- and if you ...
Fukuoka Sightseeing
One day in Fukuoka, I spend some time just strolling around the city. Not much pictures, but the silent Shofuku temple was a nice break. ...
Fukuoka
Our daily flight is HKG/TPE/FUK. When we arrived the hotel, it would be already like 9.30pm at local time. Firstly, get change, and I would love to have a bowl of noodles in the noodles shop first. You got to make your selection ...
first update
i have been in japan about a week now, i have spent this whole time gathering my bearings of the local area, my apartment and the food!! the area is not that big so its quite easy to navigate and if you get lost just look up and you will probably see the ...
beware: evil pink bunnies and monkey bridges ahead
So, within your first week of work you find out that not just the japanese staff arent getting paid (at this point i dont think they have gotten paid for 1 or 2 months and did not get their promised summer bonus, yet are still working) but neither are ...
10 Burin
The Burin Peninsula's interior landscape, hills and rock, is like being in Scotland. The Heritage Road, as opposed to no other road :), is in the middle of the peninsula at the north end but then does a 175km coastal loop at the point. My first night was ...
Shinkansen Hiken!
... echt moeilijk, maar het bos is echt adembenemend mooi. Dag twee een lange hike van 12u op de planning richting de oudste boom van japan genaamd Jomon Sugi. Die boom is ergens tussen de 2600 en 7000 jaar oud, 25 meter hoog en iets van 15 meter in omvang. ...
Fukuoka
Places visited - Fukuoka city, daizaifu, ohori park, tenjin, hakata, various shopping centers, parks, museums and temples in fukuoka. Stayed 3 months there. Work and training Panasonic Communication in ...
First Day in School
I woke up at five o' clock, excited. What kind of school would it be? Will the building have a big field?A tennis court? A huge Cafeteria? What will the people be like? Will they be rude, very strict, impolite, verbose, weird- or just normal? What will ...
Attempting Temples Again
Hello All In some haste as we are departing any minute - but just to try and tell you about the temples. Everyone should come here - not only for the temples experience but to also boost the Cambodian economy - they certainly need the latter. But the ...
Fourth day in Gujo Hachiman
... a drink of the clean water from the waterfall. You see this all over town. The water in Gujo Hachiman is known all over Japan to be the purest water in Japan. The cups are always clean. I sat next to the old man on ...
We saw baby turtles hatching!!!!
Early the next morning we said thank you to our CS Katherine and left to get the early, slow, cheap ferry to Yakushima island - very excited! (The slow ferry is the Yakushima-Maru which takes four hours, leaves from the south pier, and costs ...
Fukuoka
... fellow travelers. Good conversation all around....and maybe a bit of drinking too. As for the city Fukuoka is much like the rest of Japan....Lot's of lights and tall buildings and plenty of Lawson Station's(kinda like 7-11 in Canada or ...
valparaiso to arica
Landed in santiago last week, the 28th of july, right to valparaiso, santiago is a good town but valparaiso is a unique place, a run down port town, down on it´s luck, hard to believe a city of over 300,000 people doesn´t have a single chain ...
Back in Fukuoka
We arrived back at Fukuoka around 6:30 and stopped at a sushi restaurant. The restaurant serves the sushi on a conveyor belt. Me, Junko, and Marie packed two packages full of sushi. We then payed for the ...
A Day on the Bullet Train
Travelled down to Hakata today on the Bullet train. It was quite nice just to sit and do nothing but read and watch Japan go by having had a pretty hectic time in Tokyo. We are staying with one of Heather's relatives. Heather's Pedometer Stats: 2217 ...
Yakushima 3: Sun, sand, streams and mosquitoes
Well, my plan to relax went a bit too much toward relaxing and not so much planning. So much so that I slept in and missed the bus (and almost the next one) I was aiming to catch in order to make a connection to Shiratami Unsuikyo (a ravine with ...
Am I ridiculous 4 going 2 Fukuoka just for ramen?
... when the Typhoons were so bad that there was standing water and some power outages. Anyway, transfered to a shinkansen in Kyoto to Fukuoka, Kyushu Island. Shinkansen are very quiet, efficient, and clean. The trouble is, I don:t want to fall into a ...
Fukuoka city
... con paesi e citta' coese fra loro e veramente non era il massimo della vita guidare continuamente fra semafori. Fukuoka altra citta' grandissima con poco da vedere la cosa interessante era che si stavano preparando per una festa che avviene il ...