Best Western Hotel Takayama

We travelled from Tokyo on the super high speed clean shiny amazing shikansen trains run by japanese rail who, outside Japan, offer the JR Railpass- a discount pass only available to tourists abroad that offers unlimited travel on the shiansen and train network for 7, 14 or 21 days- invaluable if you want to see as much as possible in a short space of time.<br><br>After arriving at our ryokan in Takayama, Erin ran through the basic ettiquette of the onsens- red curtain ...

... ville. Je suis tombee un peu par hasard sur une galerie marchande ou les jeunes branches de Tokyo vont s'habiller. Si j'habitais a Tokyo, c'est sur que j'y retournerais. Je me suis toutefois fait un peu snober par les vendeuses parce que j'avais clairement l'air d'une touriste. Il pleuvait tellement que je n'avais pas le choix que de me promener en running. J'ai aussi essayer d'aller au cinema mais j'avais vu les films qui ...

... at the architecture and subtle differences between houses of different functions. There were also a few buildings with people doing (or teaching) traditional arts, like wood-carving or ceramic painting, for the tourists&#8217; enjoyment. <br><br>Back on the bus at 4.15. Guess we did have enough time. At the train station, we got our tickets back to Tokyo. Since we&#8217;d left Tokyo 1 day too early, we had to buy ...

So sorry that you havent received any news from us....from Mt.Fuji on, we didnt have any access....We stayed at the World Heritag Cultural Site in Gokayama, which was like staying at a camp.Basically, we have been in a mountainous area...the students have been writing a journal every day - One student writes about our day and at the end of the trip these pages will be copied by the leaders and a booklet will be made for ...

couldn't get to the computer last nite. only have a minute this morning. <br>took a train here yesterday. it's up in the "mountains", which are like big hills. it's really such a neat town. their specialty here is making sake and woodworking. i think i'll get a few real pretty bowls. <br>tim said yesterday on the train "show me the pictures of sedona", he was really missing her and he continues to narrate. as of ...

A Takayama on loge dans un temple, plutot sympa ! La ville est assez touristique et on comprend pourquoi : elle regorge de temples, vieilles batisses, distilleries de sake. Il y a beaucoup d'artisanat local : bois laque, sculptures, herbes sechees... Les sobas (nouille) au sarasin sont la specialite du coin et on approuve ;-) Toujours impossible d'aller a Kamikochi, meme de ce cote. On declare donc forfait et on part vers le sud...

As the title suggests, I really shouldn't have gone to Kamikochi today. It didn't bode well from the start--I forgot my maps and guides and the driver was particularly worried about me and lack of clothes, as it was SNOWING up in Kamikochi. Which I didn't really appreciate the severity of because from Matsumoto even the tallest hills didn't have any snow on the ground and though Kamikochi is a mile above sea level, it's a valley between two parallelt taller mountain ranges ...

... here). It'S funny that not being by the sea or having a Chinatown, there's a fair bit of Chinese food here--they have meat buns and such around a lot. So I settled in for the night and hoped for the festival tomorrow. And that's when karma struck. Pouring non-stop rain for the entire day. The day time events and night time festival both cancelled; an abbreviated 'parade', floats left in their storehouses. I was so disappointed I couldn't even express it ...

... Poi certo, la bellezza delle cose esiste soltanto nella mente di chi le contempla (ho scoperto chi l'ha detto: David Hume, filoso illuminista scozzese), e questo sicuramente vale anche per tutti gli altri sentimenti. Quello che io leggo in questi posti e', soprattutto, rispetto e onesta'. Due cose molto difficili da trovare... e anche due propositi difficili da perseguire, ma per cui vale sicuramente la pena di impegnarsi. Non si arriva molto lontano se no...

... guts... I can't say I was too thrilled about it. I plucked a little piece of it off its side and tried it. It was a little lemony, but I wasn't too keen on it. I decided to leave it on my plate. The dessert was good! There was a piece of mochi with red bean paste inside (it's a sweet dessert), and a piece of almond jello (it was okay... The consistency was a little different from what I'm used to...), a small piece of cake or pound cake and this odd maroon colored thing ...