Ana Hotels & Resorts Ana Hotel Okayama

... walk south from my hotel in Takamatsu to You Me Town, a shopping center at a major intersection. When I got there, I saw banners everywhere announcing the opening of a new Uniqlo store two days ago. None of the banners pointed the way to Uniqlo, so it took some hunting to find it. A while after I got there, I noticed that one of the Uniqlo employees was leading the chant you hear in stores all the time in Japan. I don't know the ...

... Koen, a landscape park supposedly rivalling the 3 best parks in Japan. It can tell you it's more expensive than Kenrokuen, larger than Kenrokuen and wilder. Which means it was better-less sculpting, more branches. While the view was fine the highlight was meeting Kaisha-san, an eight odd year old man who walked and talked with me through the park. Surprisingly spry, he suggested climbs I wasn't sure I wanted to make. He was ...

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More train transfers to get to Miyajima island, near Hiroshima (which I avoided like a plague because I just don't have it in me...) Miyajima is 'one of the three most famous views in Japan' and for that reason I was doubtful about how much it would really match the hype. The actual view that people talk about is the floating torii, which is basically erected on a mud flat and appears floating in the water at high tide. Though the torii is nice to look at, as well as ...

... veramente da buttare via , non ho idea al momento di quanti km sono ma so molto bene che ho solo guidato nel traffico di quelli da esodo tutte queste citta` e o paesi che ho nominato sono coesi fra loro non c`e` un pezzo di terra libero che ti fa capire che stai lasciando un posto per un`altro.

... not so much to our tastes. Neither of us really took to the pickles and fish with rice for brekky! Overall it was a really enjoyable - but expensive stay in a ryokan. The welcoming was first class as was the service throughout, the place in general just had a lovely peaceful ambience, very civilised, we would defintely recommend it as a must-do to any visitor to Japan. We headed back to the station and caught the shinkansen to Hiroshima.

We stopped off on the way from Kobe to Kurashiki at Imbe in the area of Bizen which is very famous for pottery and ceramics. Daniella had read in the guide book that there was a place where she could try her hand on the pottery wheel. It was a small town and there were not many restauarants open as it was a Sunday so we grabbed a bite to eat from a local supermarket. While Daniella did her stuff on the wheel, Jon took a ...

he computer is working much better. we spent the night up on Ushirioyama (Ushirio Mountain) in a cottage (really a cabin) and had a wonderful dinner with the family. It was absoultely wonderful; fresh fish, beef, lotus root, and other things I am not sure of but good. we all slept in one room (well almost--Kazu and Patty ...

Day Three after breakfast at the Young Inn we were picked up by Rikako to head out to their parents house, which is where we were staying for the night. A BBQ lunch was planned with the whole family and it was great. Plenty of tasty food and great company. We Spent the ...

... gaijin, while you are in Japan, you will not forget quickly that you are a foreigner, from the harmless, is slightly patronizing complements at your chopstick ability (The Japanese are expected to be adepts of the chopstick by the time they are 5), and the gasps of astonishment you will see when they see a white person speaking Japanese, to the more disruptive glares you receive on the bus, when people write that Japan is a closed society, they aren`t joking. Those who`s image of ...

... out to Osaka main station where we met everyone. There was 10 of us in total, me, Simon, Kim, Melissa, James, Neil, Riecko, Tukako, Taku and Masami but we had only paid for 8 as it would have cost us an extra 30,000 Yen. Simon and I arrived at the platform, my rucksack was brimming with 10, 3 litre boxes of wine. Simon was carrying that as my ankle still hurt... hehehe suckerrrr! I carried everything else. James turned up with a suitcase full of meat ...