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The oldest castle in Japan
We've spent one night in Matsumoto, at a nice little hostel that gave us bikes for free! So we explored Matsumoto, which is not very big and very "bike-friendly", and visited Matsumoto Castle. It is the oldest castle in Japan and one of the four National Treasures of Japan. It is definitely impressive! We went up to the sixth floor on very steep staircases, with a nice Japanese tour ...
Suwa lake and geyser
... with endless snack bars, shops, car showrooms etc. There seems to be little planning control here as these corridors all blur into one.
Back at the hotel a friend had somewhat belatedly asked us to pick up some traditional Japanese tabi boots. Joan knew these were worn by agricultural workes (as well as ninjas) and we found an old dusty shop that sold workwear staffed by an old gentleman. He dusted of ...
Matsumoto city and castle
... an appetiser which was tofu with onion and what Joan suspected was fishflakes so we waited until the main dish came to ask the cook. We asked and he said it was fish. He then pointed out that the noodles were in fish soup too. We explained we were veggie. It was a bit embarrassing. We said we would pay but couldn't eat the food. He came back and asked us to pay half price which was kind. It was a real shame as the food looked ...
Tateyama National Park
... it.
The area around New Station Hotel in Matsumoto was busy with slightly wobbly Salarimen wandering in to the streets. This was at 8.30 at night.
Amazingly our hotel had a restaurant that was open and had an English menu. So we ordered aubergine and sweet potato with miso, deep fried cheese, hijiki seaweed salad in sesame, miso soup and rice with a bottle of chilled(!) Chilean red. By the time we had eaten it was 11.30.
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Japan Moto trip (Izu Peninsular - Suwa)
... flat out to the next apex. It’s rather plain text-wise but when you’re confronted with all this on a motorcycle it’s hard not to keep saying to yourself, over and over and over ‘THIS IS SO AWESOME I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS SO AWESOME!’. I said this to myself so many times over the past six days I started to wonder if there was something wrong with me. Really though, I found out there had ...
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