Hotel Amaharashi Takaoka

23-2 Ota Takaoka, Toyama, Chubu, 933-0133, Japan

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Zen Tempel und Konsum Tempel

A travel blog entry by global.nomads

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... Geduld herausforderte. Am Ende haben wir schon sehr gestaunt, wie viel man doch auch ganz ohne Worte vermitteln kann … nicht nur Gefühle und Stimmungen sondern auch Fakten, Verfahren und Abläufe.

Dann war es an der Zeit sich wieder einmal zu verabschieden. Umarmungen und Geschenke wurden ausgetauscht. Unter einer schier endlosen Zahl gegenseitiger Verbeugungen zogen wir davon. Ganz nach japanischer Sitte beschenkte uns Hiroko so reich, dass es uns fast ...

Castle Town (minus the castle)

A travel blog entry by little-general

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... come into a secret room for worship, and in the event of attack secret doorways and passages were used by the Samurai to defend themselves. Following the Ninja Temple, we headed back to the hotel and went shopping to fill the time until dinner...which was at another izakaya (recommended by someone we met on the street). After another evening of beer and sake, we were all sufficiently merry and went into a shoe store (whoops! 4 pairs of shoes later....) before heading back to the hotel.
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The weekend that f*'d up my right hand

A travel blog entry by erickvita

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... with rain, not as heavy but still unconfortable to drive. It slowly started to get dark (here it gets dark around 7pm) and I was still about 300km away from home. I usually am quite a "sissy" when it's wet and even more so when it's dark. So my plan to drive a little faster wasn't really working out as supposed. Luckily I did the HID-conversion on my bike and had a bright light, but the people driving towards me didn't like it I think and when it's raining it doesn't ...

Samuarai and Geisha

A travel blog entry by daryljapan

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... even participated in some drumming with the Geishas. The other specialty of the area is gold leafing everything. This one shop had a bathroom completely gold leafed. Actually the women's room was done in gold leaf and the mens room was done in platinum leaf. Go figure. What a great ...

Soccer, Rugby, and Kanazawa!

A travel blog entry by elcigaro34

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... in your apartment doesn't mean your a loser with no friends...it just means you're in Japan.











This won't be my final entry, but I suppose there is nothing wrong with slowly starting to wrap things up a bit. I only have 17 more days here and they are both flying by and dragging along (Depending on the time of the day and activity at hand). The truth is that I have been quite busy since mid May. I ...