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Travel Blogs from Kitaibaraki
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... rest of the boar was later smoked and put into a cardboard box along with the other smoked things (whole fishes and squids).
We lived at the barn which included a wood stove for heat (not for the second story bedrooms though), a lot of raw meat laying around, a french guy, and one 20kg bag of rice that fed some of us three meals a day.
We met Hiroshi, Toshika's husband, one of the daughters, and the barn cat. Toshika explained that ...
Training!!
... cafe with the most delicious sandwich ever. We managed to convince a few people to come out for a last dinner with us at the soba noodle place again.
Monday was really sad leaving everybody. We all got slowly separated into smaller and smaller groups until it was just me on the train with Derek (a trainer) heading for the airport. My flight was incredible, having seen no snow in Tokyo. The plane flew over snow capped mountains still in Honshu before ...
Further Tokai-mura Adventures
Today we had a free day before Bernd's J-PARC shifts and before the late-season typhoon hits that’s bearing down on us … heavy rain in store the next 2-3 days. It has cooled off a lot, was cloudy, and there was a brisk wind, but it was still nice to get out and get some fresh air. We rode our bikes to other parts of town we hadn’t explored yet. We have a nice map ...
Hitachi Seaside Park
... of the holiday and nice weather. Although it was plenty busy, you could easily get away from most of the people. It was a very pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
Japan generally, or at least the places we’ve been, is very bicycle-friendly. Many people ride bikes. You see a few, but very few, fancy street/racing bikes. Most of them are very simple 3-speed types. ...
Tokai-mura
... Windy G”) was set up through KEK, and at a very reasonable price. As far as we can tell, that is not the case for regular car rentals at the airport – which are even difficult to find. The prospect of driving in Japan is initially a bit daunting, what with driving on the left side of the road, road signs you can’t read, heavy traffic, etc. However, we did it before, and it’s not too bad in ...
Other places to stay in Kitaibaraki
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Isohara Seaside Hotel
Isohara Onsen, Kitaibaraki | 4 star hotelfrom $117 -
Central Hotel Isohara
Isohara Onsen, Kitaibaraki | Hotel
