Hotel Hyatt Inn Nagano

... togeth 1000yen (7 quid) for dinner- 2 bowls of noodles, and then went to sleep broke and dreading that we would be stuck there forever. In the morning we arose early to try and get money but no-one could speak any english, nightmare! In the end there was one man from the bank who came and showed us where there was a 3rd atm, that we were unaware of, and sure enough it ejected those lovely yen notes for us :). We were very relieved, and went back to get our bags then left!

... icone (symbolisant la mort et la renaissance tout en s'etant connecte avec Bouddha...). Bref, tres interessant ! On a aussi assiste a la priere de fermeture du temple pour la nuit : chants, percussions et cymbales creant une atmosphere spirituelle tres particuliere. Mais voila, ca sera tout pour Nagano, il n'existe meme pas de cartes postables de la ville !

... touching the wooden post or receiving a blessing, but the experiences were definitely unique. I'll remember the smell of incense during the blessing and warmth of the wood from the sun and everyone's body heat. All in all, not back for a quickie tour. But I had a train to catch, back to Matsumoto, where I got my bag and ran to catch the Limited Express to Shinjuku. We passed Fuji on the ride but no sighting--hidden behind some other mountains, I suppose. At ...

After Spencer sleeping all day in the TV room nursing a hangover and then me booking a hotel in the completely wrong area of Japan (although very very luxourious resulted in a 7.15am wake up call to get to Nagano) we made our way to the snow monkeys!<br><br>After getting our bus to literally the middle of nowhere, we then walked for 40 minutes along a beautiful snowy trail to where the monkey sanctuary is hidden in the snow. The path is covere din ...

... minus the wench, and in a fancy ass kimono and wooden jandals, bro. Was caught a little un prepared. Haven't obviously stared with the jaw dropped at a chick since last time I saw a couple of hot lesbians making out. Felt a little embarrassed afterwards. Sorry Ms Geisha. Was OK tho - Kel was as stunned as I was and stared as much as I did. I even had the camera in hand, turned on, on the right settings, facing the right direction, and managed not to take ...

I am going to keep the chat to a minimum here and let the (many) photos do the talking. I went to Nagano to see the "Snow Monkeys". They were awesome. After a short 2km hike through snowy forested mountains, suddenly there were monkeys running across the path - and they literally came within an inch of my feet! Well worth the visit.

Parie en randonnee tres top ce matin car il n'y a qu'un seul train qui vas vers la station ou la randonnee commence. une fois arriver a la montagne, on doit prendre un gondole et 2 chair lift pour se rendre au point de depart du sentier. De la je me suis rendu au sommet a 2700m en 2 heures puis je suis revenue en 1heure et demi. Le temps de revenir a la gare et faire un peu d'epicerie, il est deja 17h00.

Aujoud'hui, il fait tres beau, pas trop chaud,18 celcius. Je suis partie en randonnee au mont Goryu, la base de la montagne est a 5 min a pied de l'auberge. C'est 6.2 km pour se rendre au sommet de 2007m d'altitude. Apres avoir marcher mes 12.4 km, je suis arriver en bas, ou il y a une piscine pour l'entrainement de saut en ski.

... dark passageway feeling and groping along the walls to find the "key"! We found a kind of doorhandle object, but no key, so here's hoping it was actually the doorhandle to salvation! Karaoke Allstars!! After a fabulous dinner made by Takako and Eimear, we all headed out to a Karaoke bar where we paid 2000 for two hours of karaoke with unlimited drinks. Such fantastic craic, I had never been to a karaoke bar before. We had our own private room ...

... and ice-skating rink. We went through the rather disappointing museum and through to the ice skating rink to find the lights off and half the ice melted. It was then that we realised that the sign out the front in Japanese probably said the rink was closed due to maintenance.<br><br>We left M-Wave, had lunch and then had to wait ages for another ...