Buena Vista Matsumoto

... Roku" con la celebre escultura de la araña "Maman" de Louis Bourgeois.<br><br>En metro hasta "AKIHABARA"... pero aquí me gustaría hacer un inciso sobre el "Metro" de Tokyo. No voy a extenderme con su fecha de construcción ni datos numéricos... sino con la experiencia de entrar en uno de los medios de trasporte que raya casi la perfección... por detalles como estos:<br><br><ul><li>La limpieza y el ...

Settling in in Matsumoto. Spent about 4 1/2 hours on trains today, slow one from Nikko to Utsunomiya, a shinkansen to Omiya, another shinkansen to Nagano, then another slow train to Matsumoto. Signs of civilization at the Matsumoto station - a Starbucks!<br><br>Hoping that I can find the castle tomorrow. The ryokan has bicycles to lend, so I'm going to try and ...

... und dann noch in die Einkaufstüte, od** das Toilettenpapi** ist einzeln in Plastik od** Papi** v**packt... And****seits sind jetzt sogenannte Eco - Bags d**zeit hi** d** totale Renn** - wobei das wohl eh** so ne Mode**scheinung zu sein scheint. <br>Dann hab ich noch Sake Dosen mit unt**schiedlichen Geschmacksrichtungen gefunden (Japanische Alkopops sozusagen ^_^). Gest**n hatte ich Pfirsich Geschmack heute Ume - also Pflaumengeschmack.Seeeeehr ...

... standing there...yelling at people to get them inside...i think thats called service industy in newspeak.<br><br>ok, enough for now...i think it is clear why i write in english...in german i can not express myself anymore as well, i bore myself while writing...so read you next time...maybe in german, maybe in english...<br>btw, its very distressing to log in after 2 weeks without inet to see only 1 mail...thx wew...<br>can someone pease write me, otherwise i feel so lonely<br><br><br>

From Obuse, we travelled further along the train line, into the mountains and to a place called Yudanaka. In the winter you can go skiing around here but obviously there was no snow whilst we were here, just a bit of rain. The reason we came here was to visit the snow monkeys. These monkeys are macaques which come down the valley and are partial to bathing in the natural onsen (hot springs). We got a bus ...

... they are willing to share information, it just takes time. The ride back was filled with American and Japanese chatter, as we had all become good friends at this point. Bonding over questions and beer is never a bad thing :) We will be meeting up with a bunch of the students this thursday and most of them are coming to Boston this summer, which is really nice. We will be able to show them our home, as they have graciously shown us theirs.

... about each others culture. There were so many questions, confusion, and I think in the end, a bit of enlightenment. I still don't understand the culture completely and feel as if I never will. I don't think an outsider is privileged to such information. Regardless, I think our talk formed a strong bond and I hope we have more like it in the future.

... foods (weirdly enough, I'm having more fried foods here than in America) and non-sensical Japanese variety shows. Not sure if it's Kamikochi talking or what, but I feel ready at this time to get back to everyday life in Boston. Got to tackles my demons, fail some more experiences and then fix all these tiny things that need to be done--lease, pictures, mail--the list goes on an on. But before that: tomorrow is Matsumoto castle and Nagao Zenkoji temple. And then onto Tokyo. -mike

... garden complex. Quite like the one in Matsuyama, is a bit bigger, but the grounds are less reconstructed. But since it was pouring rain, I didn't actually go into the castle as the sights of the surrounding area would probably have consisted of fog and gray. After the drive by touring, wandered Nakamachi for an hour, intimidated by being only 1 of the few people out and about and also ambivalent about the ceramics and artwork. Maybe I'm ...

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