Green Hill Hotel Urban Kobe

... The toilets which have heated seats and a jet of water that cleans your bum!<br>5. The groups of schoolchildren who hang around all the tourist attractions and are forced by their teachers to ask you questions to learn english. `Do you like David Beckham?` `Can you swim?`!<br>6. The food which is completely different but a little bit similar to Chinese. Lots of rice, lots of noodle, huge amounts of fish and lots of fried things which you don`t quite know whats inside of ...

Seconds please. I had to go back to Osaka, one way or another (my return flight was leaving from here). Ate just as well if not better than the first go around. Went to the Takoyaki museum at Universal city walk but it was more tako vendors than museum, not such a bad thing. Had simply amazing Kobe ...

... 4 03, my old room. I opened the door and there was my "old" friend and roomie, Josh. Again, a nice look of surprise. I was happy to be back:)<br><br>"Hey, roomie, I'm back," I announced.<br><br>We had a nice chat about my excursion and all things Japanese. Josh is a wealth of information and experience about many things, particularly Japan.<br><br>-----<br>KOREAN KIMCHI DINNER!:<br><br>Nine of us packed into Hyana's little dorm room. The borrowed low table ...

... hall observatory, china town and the harbour district.<br><br>We started to walk and before long, found ourselves lost in a maze of covered shopping plazas. It was like Gintengai and Okaido ( the two covered malls in Matsuyama, which I'm not sure if I've mentioned ) but much bigger and glitzier.<br><br>After a few hours of shopping and having some lunch we finally made our to city hall. We decided we'd just kind of hang out ...

... station. It was stressful to say the least. However once we arrived in Roppongi we went to the visitor information station to find a cheap hotel or hostel to stay in for the night. We ended up at a hotel called "the B" and it was surprisingly very nice. We took a break in the room for a little while before heading to the Tsukiji Sushi Restaurant. I got ebi sashimi which is shrimp on top of rice without the seaweed roll and a maki roll that had salmon ...

Japan 2007 John and I traveled to Japan for a meeting I attended in Kobe. Last year we spent one night in Osaka on our way to Korea, but aside from that, neither of us had been to Japan before. It was a long, overnight process to get there from DC. We arrived late afternoon the day after we left home. To give you an idea of how exhausted we were, when we went out to dinner that night, I had to point out to John that he was pouring water in his glass of beer! Anyway ...

... or earthquake, so I'm left to assume that much of it must be original. If I'm in error, please let me know. Once I'd done the circuit I found myself back on that narrow street that I had walked up a few hours earlier. I had a few things on my list that I did want to see but after consulting a map, I knew the whole thing would be hopeless. Instead, I just decided to wander some of the narrow streets of Gion and try to experience some of the culture. I ended up ...

... Gion - to zdej za tiste, k ste prebral Memoirs of a geisha, no js sam pogresam une male ulice, ki so se sicer vedno male, sam v knjigi so ble kao mracne in so koraki odmevali po njih. tko mal pravljicno se vedno deluje, ceprav razni Mcdonaldsi in starbucksi kvarijo zadeve (a slednji imajo najcenejso kavo;) - kar je prav absurdno, ker so ponavadi najdrazji! Prvi dan sem seveda prekolesarila stari del Giona in obsedela z mojim sushijem iz ...

... sunday night i`m singin with a japanese beatles cover band that yoko`s sister is in! then i have one week of camp left. camp ends next friday, and i`m singin again next friday night at the same bar with this body-builder from new zealand named mun. saturday i`m going to see AIDA performed by an all female company. sunday i`m catchin a performance of annie. both shows of course in japanese. monday night yoko`s mom is throwin a party for me and on tuesday ...

... Also, I finally found a place to watch some NFL playoff games! Other than that, all I can say is that when I move back home I will never again complain about high prices and will never stop complaining about customer service! You have no idea how cheap things are in the US...trust me! And the customer service here is unbelievable. The people at KFC are brimming with enthusiasm when you walk in...compare that to a KFC in the States where it's like "Oh, great, another customer ...