Hotakaso Yamano Hotel Takayama

... building in the centre of the old town, complete with torture chamber, a few free tastings at some sake breweries and a trip to the float museum which stands next to the town's largest shrine and which shows off a rotation of the beautifully detailed floats that are brought our around the town every spring and autumn for one of Japan's most popular festivals.<br><br>We reconvened around 7pm for some more hida beef and then managed to find a great little sake bar ...

Settling in in Matsumoto. Spent about 4 1/2 hours on trains today, slow one from Nikko to Utsunomiya, a shinkansen to Omiya, another shinkansen to Nagano, then another slow train to Matsumoto. Signs of civilization at the Matsumoto station - a Starbucks!<br><br>Hoping that I can find the castle tomorrow. The ryokan has bicycles to lend, so I'm going to try and ...

Bonjour,<br><br>J'en suis a ma 2e journee avec le groupe. En fait, 3e mais lundi, aucune activite n'etait prevue sauf la rencontre de groupe. J'ai encore un tres bon groupe. Un peu plus vieux mais je m'y attendais. Les gens sont gentils mais etant donne que la guide n'organise pas vraiment de lunch ou de souper en groupe, je ne leur ai pas vraiment encore parle. Ma co-loc est vraiment gentille....Elise, Sophie, elle est ...

... br> Hida-no-Sato is a collection of about 30 old Japanese mountain farmhouses. Ranging from 100 to 500 years old, they were relocated from their original locations in the '60s, when they built the Miboro Dam in the Shokawa River and flooded a large area. The houses are now picturesquely arranged around a lake and include woodcutter&#8217;s huts, farmhouses, rice storage structures, and shrines. The farmhouses are ...

... face, give face, dont loose face... says nowhere dont break promises or dont lie...<br>Anyway, after she repeated her invitation 3 times i said ok, they paid my beer, i paid my food.<br>NIce...what annoyed me was that she was inching closer and closer to me sexual harassment from a over 50 years old japanese lady?<br>whowww....<br> She then wanted to sing karaoke, so up we went, after some time i got a bill over 1700 yen, 17 dollar, went down and off she went without even saiing ...

So sorry that you havent received any news from us....from Mt.Fuji on, we didnt have any access....We stayed at the World Heritag Cultural Site in Gokayama, which was like staying at a camp.Basically, we have been in a mountainous area...the students have been writing a journal every day - One student writes about our day and at the end of the trip these pages will be copied by the leaders and a booklet will be made for ...

... she owns the whole of japan, this going on the " if i like it it's mine, if i see it's mine" principle.<br>i love you sweetheart. we both miss you both. i'm getting some stares here, so i need to go. i'll try to get on computer tonite. have to do laundry too. <br>i'll tell tim about orientation stuff. that was very thoughtful of you. <br>miss you much, you too kate :)<br>love you forever, like you for always<br>mom

... relajarnos al mas puro estilo japones: Onsen (si, esta vez entre, con mi tatuaje y todo!), donde alucine con esta costumbre y ritual del bano en aguas termales (quien haya estado sabe a que me refiero), luego cenita buena y noche en Ryokan, que es el alojamiento tipico japones. Asi que nos toco dormir sobre tatami y degustar un desayuno japones (lo de comer algas y pescado en el desayuno no triunfo... menos mal que no contratamos la cena!) y la experiencia de comunicarse ...

... party local, avec des grandes tentes partout, tout juste s'ils vendent pas le kebab, donc la quiétude et l'harmonie du parc, tu t'assois de dessus. Petit point cuisine locale : Matsumoto a des spécialités culinaires, faut bien qu'ils aient quelque chose à part leur château (classé Trésor national du Japon, ça rigole pas). Donc, j'ai testé pour vous : sashimi de cheval, tu vas dans l ...

... A very long time ago is the best answer I can provide. All the homes were original and very beautiful. We walked back through town and decided to hop in the car and try to find a skyline road that wraps around the mountains and apparently offers spectacular views (this was the first time our friend Joel had ever been in the mountains, so he was very excited about ... everything the whole weekend). We were not able to find the specific road we were searching for ...