Hiratakan Takayama

... the bartender spoke amazing english (he spent two years of high school in the u.s) and let us sample a plethora of sake varieties - hot/cold, dry/sweet etc.. until we had all found a favourite. This was followed, as many night henceforth would, by staggering into a local karaoke bar, and proceeding to serenade with and to the locals until around midnight when, to the tune of sweet home alabama, we sauntered home to pack our things for our train the next morning to Hiroshima.

... some money on cab fare. Hopefully I can remember to ride on the left side of the street and the other vehicles remember to do the same. I'm also hoping that the rumors of English-speaking guides are true.<br><br>Adjusting my expectations... I had thought I'd zip through the castle and get to Kyoto early. Probably not. Everything takes longer than you think.

... je suis donc en terrain de connaissance.<br><br>Il pleuvait a boire debout a Tokyo a cause du typhon qui a passe au large de la cote est. J'ai donc pris une journee de conge de mes vacances et je n'ai pas fait grand chose. Je voulais aller visiter un temple mais le temps que je traverse la rue pour aller a la station de train, j'etais deja trempee et beaucoup moins motivee ! J'ai quand meme pris le metro pour aller au ...

... selling local fruits and vegetables, hand-made crafts, and souvenirs in front of Takayama-jinja (a beautifully preserved government building, complete with adjacent rice storage buildings) and along the Miya-gawa river. Saw some of the vegetables we&#8217;d eaten the night before and learned a few Japanese names of vegetables I did recognize. <br><br>I bought a canned coffee from a vending machine and took a ...

... br>lol...but i have also a lot of experiences in the other way...here examples...<br><br>hitchhiking...quite easy, even as japanese never do it...funny thing is they invite you to food or give you money...almost always... i refuse always three times, and then i take what they want to get rid of...funny behavior, theoretically it schould be possible to earn money that way.<br><br>Otherwise japan is nice, very clean, not as ultramodern as you might think, also it seems that ...

... student.....being that we are soooo far behind, this will be - a picture is worth a thousand words...enjoy the pictures. Your students/children are doing great...we have been sleeping Japanese style on the floor for six nights and are anxious to move on to Hiroshima for real beds and bathrooms in our room. We have been taking the Japanese style baths every night!!...<br> Gosh, hard to believe our trip is almost over!!!

couldn't get to the computer last nite. only have a minute this morning. <br>took a train here yesterday. it's up in the "mountains", which are like big hills. it's really such a neat town. their specialty here is making sake and woodworking. i think i'll get a few real pretty bowls. <br>tim said yesterday on the train "show me the pictures of sedona", he was really missing her and he continues to narrate. as of ...

... morning market and then up the hill to the festival float museum. Takayama hosts two large festivals each year, one in Spring and one in Fall when hundreds of thousands of Japanese converge on the town to participate in traditional celebrations. After visiting the musuems, we wandered through town viewing several more temples and stopping for coffee and lunch. The weather was cold and damp with temperatures hovering near freezing. The town was partially blanketed by about a foot ...

... farm tools. On the way to the village, you can see lots of back yards farms. Japanese like to grow vegetables or fruit trees in their gardens rather than flowers and green plants. Stroll along the Takayama town is refreshing. There are old shops, modern cafes... and you must try the BBQ Hida Beef. The marble beef (beef with fat that looks like "marble"), really melts in your mouth!

... why I didn`t find my assigned seating acceptable, and I couldn`t communicate `the porn next door is too loud`. I returned to my booth and when the next spicy scene came up I got a staff member to come over and listen with me. He ended up knocking on the man`s door to ask him to turn down the volume. Rather than put the supplied headphones on, the man turned the volume down a bit. So, I was able to upload my pictures in relative peace. Gross. Anyways, back to the ...