Daioso Shima
244 Daiochonakiri Shima, Mie Prefecture, Kinki, 517-0603, Japan
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Kumano Kodo: Pilgrimage or Grudge match?
... a locker at Matsusaka, where I’m staying overnight in a ryokan (actually the cheapest place I could find in English near the Kumano kodo). Took a train to Owase, where I proceeded to ask a visitor center agent how to get to the trail. This led to a five minute awkward exchange where I explained I knew very little useful Japanese and she scratched her head about where the trail actually was located. Finally, we just called it quits and ...
Mikimoto pearls
... train trip to Toba was very long but going home it was shortened by an hour because we took the express home. Taxied it to may and daniel's. We are going to try the bus and subway tomorrow as the taxi is eating into our travel/shopping funds. My camera isn't holding a baTtery charge. ThaNk goodness for my iPhone. Tomorrow we will try and find a battery. I have the worst luck with cameras in ...
Old Japanese town vibe
... of wood and every peace of it eventually becomes a good luck charm that can be bought at the local stores. Pretty cool stuff. We stayed at the traditional Japanes hotel, with the bath and raw sea food. The view was amazing - Pacific ocean about 20 feet away from the ...
Train from Ise-shima to Tazawako
We have been fascinated as we track through the Japanese landscape by the production and harvesting of rice we can see through the carriage window. The fields are generally very small - plots of no more than half an acre - and do not lend themselves to the high-tech mechanisation so representative of the rest of the country. It is as if each grain of rice is cultivated by hand.
We ask ourselves ...


