Gasthof Hotel Kagoshima

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Tämä tiistaipäivä aloitettiin heti komealla aamulenkillä, kiipeämällä ylös Shiroyama vuorelle. Ylös olisi päässyt myös bussilla, mutta eihän me mitään sellaista tarvita ...tai sitten ei vaan tiedetty? :-)

Aika harvoin on tullut näissä kiipeilyhommissa pettymystä ja nyt voi taas sanoa, että jumankeuta! Ylhäältä avautui siis niin huikea näky, ettei mitään rajaa! W-A-U! Aivan kaupungin edessä kohosi odotetusti, mutta paljon ...

Tämä yö meni aivan harakoille …tai siis KORPEILLE! En tajua mikä oli homman nimi, mutta korpit raakkui ja piti tässä hotellin lähellä koko yön aivan mieletöntä meteliä, joten unet jäi todella vähiin! Hiukan kävi mielessä, että olisiko kenties joku maanjäristys tulossa, mutta kyllä nämä korpit olivat muuten vaan kajahtaneita! :-)

Aamulla lähdettiin kello 09 aikoihin Ikebukurolta liikenteeseen, koska suurella viekkaudella ajateltiin, että ehkä pahin aamuruuhka olisi ...

... ready, or because the staff doesn't care enough to bother, or because the cleaning staff don't communicate with the front desk staff. But in Japan, I think it really is about a culture where it's just expected that people will follow the rules, and allowing early check-ins could be the first step towards total social breakdown.)

To my surprise and delight, the front desk staff said that my room would be ready at ...

Heute sind wir nach Ibusuke gefahren. Und eins vorweg, die Leute dort haben Geschmack ^_~ aber später mehr dazu. Auf jeden Fall ist es lustig, wenn man Japanisch versteht (muahaha..wer sagt was von verstehen...Bruchstücke!!). Da kommt eine 'Klasse junger Mädels in Uniform in den Zug, eine schaut uns an und meint lauter おめでとう ; (Glückwunsch). Dann meinte sie in Englisch von wo wir her sind. Als ich dann auf japanisch geantwortet hab, ist sie erstmal hinter den ...

... draußen. Na auch egal.
Neulich auf der gaaanz neuen Bahnhof Toilette: Da macht man nichts ahnend (und man ahnt ja schon viel nach den reichlichen besuchen der Jap. Toiletten) die Toilettentür zu, hockerlt sich grad gemütlich hin als auch eine Frauenstimme von hinten ertönt und auf dich einquitscht (hab jetzt nur domo arigatou verstanden. Wahrscheinlich was ähnliches wie "Ehrenwärter Kunde, vielen Dank das sie unsere neue Toilette benutzten." ). Als die dann endlich aufhört ...

... beforehand. As you enter the shower area, you're made to hand your hakata back - thank god there was a separate female and male facility! (clearly Louise wrote this!) - and then rinse off the sand in the showers. You are then directed through to the main pool (again separate facilities) where everyone is scrubbing and washing themselves down, completely naked, with no inhibitions whatsoever before soaking in the warm pools. Not really my scene!! Jim of course ...

... w*s *ctu*lly the only thing th*t kept me from gn*wing off my own leg out of st*rv*tion. The rest of the time we were served cr*zy fish served in 1,000 different w*ys, *long with equ*lly str*nge side dishes like octopus *nd qu*il egg noodles. Every once in * while something decent would come *long like miso or curry soup with something resembling chicken nuggets but, they were not close enough to e*ch other to keep me from feeling the hunger p*ins. Anyw*y, I digress. On shore, str*ight ...

... to work out how to put pics on web for you all. Seems to be a Tiffany's in the most obscure places of Japan - local shopping ...

... flattened a deer that subsequently came flying towards our faces! We had time to visit the beautiful Furosato Onsen on the way back to the ferry terminal, which was in a gorgeous location overlooking the ocean, before I said goodbye to Tatsu, who had been an absolute star. We exchanged email addresses and he said to contact him if I ever needed any help or a place to crash, and I may take him up on the offer if I don`t manage to find a job before my money runs out!

Yakushima was very attractive with its ancient nature, but we couldn't take a direct flight from Nagoya. So my mom and I took a flight from Nagoya to Kagoshima and stayed in Irifune hotel, which was the cheapest hotel, but it cost 4750 per person. In the next morning, we took another flight of Japan Air Commuter taking 30 mins to Yakushima. There were a few passengers on the plane even though it was Sunday. The airplane was small and the ...