Hotel Akitaya Aomori
293-12 Hotarudani Asamushi Aomori, Aomori, Tohoku, 039-3501, Japan
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Aomori: Neputa 2
... that can come with life instead of just ignoring their possibility with pointless platitudes, I think the truly terrible things might be easier to bear as a society; without the hysteria, without the traumatic sense of 'why?!', without the feeling of incapacitating helplessness. Which makes it somewhat admiringly strange, I think to Americans, how the Japanese have 'moved on' after the disasters. One on hand it's amazing--it feels like the ...
Hirosaki: Neputa Festival
... and further if you want), but I suspect the bus is scheduled to only meet the Tsugaru ferry. By the time I disembarked, the bus had just left 10 minutes ago and the next wasn’t due for 4 hours. That left taking a taxi to Shin-Aomori station (where the Tohoku shinkansen starts) and using up my savings over using the railroad or getting out and hoofing it on foot. Guess which one I did?
Armed with a Neputa brochure from the Hakodate ...
Hite Hite
Woke up in Aomori on Tuesday located at the northern tip of Honshu Island at the same latitude as New York. This place is famous for apples, Nebuta - no - Sato (sleeping floats) and the last samarai warrior in Japan.
The great floats represent Japanese legend and myth and our group became certified float operators, which now when we return, we are guaranteed ...
Space A/Airplane Food/Japan
... flying Southwest overseas, except not nearly as accommodating or friendly. EVERYONE is traveling with children and they all cry all the time, seems like. But I put my headphones in and was able to sleep for an hour here and an hour there. The food was...edible. Lunch was "teriyaki" chicken with "rice." On the side there was some sort of meat product, not readily identifiable, wrapped in a tortilla and smothered in picante sauce. There was also "potato" ...
Lit From Within
... 30. I even had time to stop for a croissant and a coffee in Kichijouji before heading in to work!
It's weird to think that both Hachinohe and Aomori are no longer the same as when I saw them. Hachinohe was struck by the tsunami on the 11th, and Aomori City was also hit hard by the earthquake. I hope both cities manage to recover soon and that their residents get some respite from the persistently chilly weather that's been hounding them.
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