Hotel Amuse Tomioka
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Mt Asama and onioshidashi
The morning started with gruel - literally. Breakfast was either super thick white toast or okayu, which is Japanese rice gruel, a bit like thin porridge. Buoyed up for the day by this sustenance, we walked to the hire car office via the tourist office at Nagano Station. There they gave us several useful maps.
The car we hired was a small Mazda automatic. We set off with some maps that really didn't give the information required for driving, ...
Japan to Chengdu
Made it to Komoro, Japan in time to see our nephew Tomo and niece Emi dance in a festival. Spent a great week with Dennis, Naoko, Tomo and Emi hiking, looking for beetles and geckos, and swimming. We visited Naoko's parents place who have an orange orchard, mmmmm fresh oranges off the tree. Naoko and her mom prepared an awesome sushi dinner for our last night in Japan.
We had a fantastic week in Japan then it ...
The Belly Button Festival
... paint a giant face on your stomach. You tie fake hands to your waist and hold a large pretend hat over your head and lineup. When the music starts then you prance and skip down the street. This is the general plan. Some kids looked happy, but uncoordinated; though many were at the verge or in tear. They were really super cute though.
We hid from the heat from 4 to 5 at a small café. We found ...
Lavender Park
... home prefecture and the reverse. I say why can't I have both?
In effort to achieve my aim, I ventured off with friends to the famed lavender park in Tambara. Gunma is a place for cars and I have none. It is still possible to get around, but everything is more difficult. We took the train for an hour and then hopped a bus. We had missed the station by and one and had an epic taxis ride back, but ...
Volleyball Taikai! 大会
... salt candy and power drinks before. They decorated their classrooms and boards and had many pep rallies. You could not help to be excited. The winners were ecstatic for the next several classes and were tickled when I would address the class as "Good morning, volley ball champions or what is the answer volley ball ...
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