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Hotel Irifune Kirishima

279-3 Mizobe-cho Fumoto Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu-Okinawa, 899-6404, Japan

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Slight misdirection

A travel blog entry by evelyncurry

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... Once found they called Hakata station, confirmed we did buy the tickets there. We received new tickets to Hiroshima and would receive a refund when arriving at Hiroshima. How amazingly awesome!!!?? Ashley and I were so thankful we gave the girls hugs and got a photo with them.

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Trapped in Limbo

A travel blog entry by mchao

... but it was fetching over $125. I cannot fathom having a $30 mango for the sake of having mango...

Anyway, breakfast went great, caught the bus to the airport OK and the flight still seemed to be OK. Until about an hour before it was scheduled to go and it was announced it was canceled. So began the saga of back and forth waffling. Do I wait for the next (and the the next) direct flight; do I change to Tokyo and spend extra money to take the train ...

Kagoshima: The Calm before the Storm

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... government had put down several smaller rebellions by disaffected samurai and were highly concered over Takamori's activities. Thus, they sent a fleet down to Kagoshima to remove the weapons from the region. Instead, this began the Satsuma rebellion, a 9 month war between the government and samurai forced. Obviously, the Meiji government won and Takamori was required to commit suicide after his concession. I many ways, Takamori lived a life based ...

Around Kagoshima: Volcano and Festival

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... I find myself on the wrong side of that line. At the shrine, there is a platforms for enka and old style ballads. The audience was probably at least double my age. Down the street was a DJ blasting all the new J pop an K pop tunes to the huge mobs of teenagers. Admittedly catchy, if not a bit linguistically suspect (one song seems to be made up of the refrain of 'I wish for you' that though grammatically OK just doesn't quite fit right in my mind), this is the ...

Kirishima: Plan B it is

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... several volcanic mountains. High up, they offer hikers a single long chain of scrubby volcanoes that face both the ocean on the Kagoshima side and the sea towards Korea. And today's weather was great--dry, cool and clear. But arriving at the bus stop at Kirishima jingu, I found out that the recent volcanic activity of one of the middle peaks, Shinmoedake, had basically closed down the entire trail. In fact, the visitor's center and ...

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