Best Western Kochi

... year I was born ). It is also an important center for Shugendo, a mixture of Shintoism and Buddhism.<br><br>We got up at around 5:00am Saturday morning to catch the train to Saijo a town bigger than Hojo, but smaller than Matsuyama about an hour away from both. We caught the train and made our way to Saijo. In Saijo we just had enough time to grab some snacks from the combini ( Japanese convenience store ), before we had to catch the bus to the Ishizuchi rope-way.<br ...

... than blah. From Okayama took the express down to Kochi, on the south face of Shikoku. We passed through some of the best scenery I've seen to date, mostly because Shikoku is not really developed or inhabited especially in the Iya valley region in the middle of the island. I was sleeping on and off and woke up to use traveling along a massive gorge and strung across it was a string of carp banners and windsocks (around Koboke I guess ...

... mentre fuori diluviava. E prima di arrivare li sono stata in un onsen con vasca all'aperto vista fiume, e pioggia. Un tantino stile decadente e malinconico come panorama, ma bellissimo. Ora sono diretta a Muroto misaki, il capo a sud di Shikoku. volo a prendere il treno. Baci a tutti!

Primo traghetto che personalmente a me da una particolare libidine caricarci la moto e navigare per mare ogni tanto. Fiondo nell' isola di Shikoku , l' isola di un pellegrinaggio Zen da 1500 km attraverso 88 templi . Io la taglio a meta' naturalmente per montagne e dormo a Kochi altra citta' di mare e naruralmente si cena a base di sushi freschissimo . Sto viaggiando un po in fretta un mio amico a Shizuoka mi ha invitato ad andare ad Iwata a visitare la fabbrica della Yamaha .Potevo dire di no?

... in her car and road trip our way to shikoku and around tokushima-ken. we had a blast of a weekend in her tinsy tiny japanese size car (think geo metro) listening to great music and snacking on amazingly delicious homemade trail mix as we snaked our way ...

... labour and a number of American prisoner of war soldiers who were not known to be in the area.They burn a flame at the site and it is supposed to be extinguished when the last nuclear device is destroyed. I guess unfortunately it might as well be an eternal flame.From Hiroshima I bulleted my way to Okayama.

... photographed tourist attractions in Japan. I laughed at the suckers spending money on tacky souvenir like pictures of themselves with the gate, taken by a professional (or really just a grungy old dude) photographer, and was quite proud of the photo that I managed to take of myself. Good old cameras with timers! Good old rocks to sit them on! 3. MT. MISSEN Whilst on Miyajima, I took a trip to the top of Mt. Missen via two rope ways and a bloody steep hike. Was a ...

... had dedicated guys with poles to move the electrical wiring out of the way so the top eagle/point/decorative piece at the top didn't snag the lighting. Once again, Glen, Ashleigh and Brian got some fun stares and shouts of "Hello!" After we'd had enough of observing the little town of Saijo, we piled bakc in the car and headed back to Matsuyama. danjiri starting out large tipping danjiri danjiri's resting danjiri battle...?

... spoiled me, and I found the trains on Shikoku to be much slower - a good metaphor perhaps to what I needed at this point. The lovely coastal scenery changed to increasingly narrow valleys covered in green. As a familiar lover of the Rocky Mountains, 'tis wonderful to see such steep slopes so coated with trees. Upon arrival in my small town, I telephoned hostel owner Nori to come pick me up. Winding in his minivan upon innumerable one-lane ...

... didn't see many scars on their fur, and they looked like big normal dogs. I should have taken a picture of their cages. They had memorabilia of the dogs collars, pictures, and the first dogs bred into modern Tosa dogs. They then led us to the puppy corral where they kept the future fighters. They showed them with their fighting training gear, and once again, the thought of taking pictures of the puppies escaped me. We pet the dogs and left. I would say that it's not really something ...