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Bathe with the public
... to access the local train, boarded then traveled 20 minutes to the nearby port town called Takahama. This is the location of three ferries, one large, one small, and third is one of those catamaran high speed ferries. Why so many ferries? I was surprised to learn that Japan is composed of 6,852 islands of which 421 are inhabited. I had no idea!
The ancient gent at the little train station was very help to me. ...
Getting butt naked at a Japanese hot spring
Today I would be leaving the main Japanese island of Honshu briefly to visit Matsuyama, the main city on the southern island of Shikoku.
In order to make sure I would have a full day for sightseeing I needed to get up super early (5 am) in order to catch the early ferry.
I hopped on the train at 6 am to the nearby port of Kure where I boarded the ferry for Matsuyama. The ferry (which was only a small car/cruise ferry) was definitely one of the most comfortable I've ...
Matsuyama Castle
... There we visited the castle. This castle is still in its original form, even it burned nearly down and also was bombed in the second world war.
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This is a Typhoon?
At 9 AM I was picked up by Mr. Suzuki, the head of International Department. He told me that four of the seven schools we were to visit had decided to close. Since most of our students were at those four schools, only three students were actually going to school. I should mention that at the time the rain was falling lightly, with occasional moderate showers.
So we set out to visit the three who were at school Axel, Elaina, and Jonah. We ...
Typhoon Guchol Update
I just wanted to give everyone a quick update. Its just about 8 AM here, there is a steady moderate rain, but no wind. Looking at the weather maps it looks like the storm is still southeast of us. It looks like they are projecting it to be passing us in the mid afternoon today (overnight in Milwaukee), but it also appears to be tracking just a little further east than the original track (that means further from us.) As it passes it is expected to be a level 1 hurricane/typhoon. ...
