Hotel Izutsu Matsumoto

... que contrasta enormemente con la visión de los gigantescos edificios que lo rodean.

Podríamos destacar el estanque de "Shioiri-no-ike" cuya agua es salada y se extrae de la bahía mediante un sistema de exclusas. En el estanque y conectado con un bello puente de madera (118 metros) está la isla de "Nakajima-no-ochaya" donde el que lo desee puede acercarse a la casa del Té. Merece la pena ...

... some money on cab fare. Hopefully I can remember to ride on the left side of the street and the other vehicles remember to do the same. I'm also hoping that the rumors of English-speaking guides are true.

Adjusting my expectations... I had thought I'd zip through the castle and get to Kyoto early. Probably not. Everything takes longer than you think.

Sind seit gest**n in Sakudaira (ist in Nagano Nähe und scheinbar so unbedeutend, das ichs nur auf Japanisch gefunden hab... ), ab** die leute hi** haben einen riesige Einkaufsmall - JUSCO Hurra...
Gest**n haben wir uns wied** mit Futt** aufs Zimm** v**zogen, vorh** eben in Einkaufsmall Leck**eien eingekauft. Da gabs viel Zeugs zum Probi**en unt** and**em Maguro Sashimi... jaaa eigentlich will ich ja meinen Thunfisch v**brauch einschränken (vor allem d ...

... br>lol...but i have also a lot of experiences in the other way...here examples...

hitchhiking...quite easy, even as japanese never do it...funny thing is they invite you to food or give you money...almost always... i refuse always three times, and then i take what they want to get rid of...funny behavior, theoretically it schould be possible to earn money that way.

Otherwise japan is nice, very clean, not as ultramodern as you might think, also it seems that ...

... ones were burning hot. It was very relaxing and you could see a nice view of the valley and the monkeys hopping about around you. As we were right at the bottom of the valley we could see people really high above us but they couldnt see us very well, which was only a good thing. We then went back to the park and stayed for a while longer before getting the bus and train to Nagano, the main city of that ...

... The Japanese students asked us questions, and we asked the Japanese students questions. They were all anonymous, which was nice. The questions ranged from what is your favorite foods to do you think we speak english well, to "would you ever date a Japanese person?" It was great to see how curious our new friends had become and it was amazing to realize how much we don't really know about each others cultures. Although the Japanese are ...

... and were able to ask them what they thought. We got some really interesting reactions, especially on the Nathan Book, which is fairly controversial. They didn't fully agree that kids were ridiculously crazy in the classroom, although there were plenty of incidences of it happening. After an amazing dinner, we once again broke out the alcohol ...

... from 9-5pm and we naturally got there too late.

I love bullet trains in Japan. We got from Nagano back to Tokyo in the space of an hour and a half and summing up enough energy we found our ludicrously small hostel with a kitchen meant for 40 guests consisting of two hobs and a hot plate and crawled into bed exhausted!


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Hallo zusammen, habe jetzt Nagoya v**lassen und auch die Tokaido Shinkansen Line, i.e. ich w**de nicht mit dem Shinkansen von Nagoya nach Tokyo fahren. Ich bin stattdessen **neut gen Norden gefahren, nach Matsumoto. Auf d** travelpod Karte sieht es so aus als ob ich von Takayama nach Matsumoto gefahren bin und das ja auch nicht weit ist. Leid** braucht man fu** diese Strecke ein Auto (und man faehrt ueb** die B**ge). Matsumoto ist b ...

... to come by to take us back into town. Eventually one arrived and we walked up to the Zenkoji Temple past a street full of temple residences.

We wandered around the temple complex and gardens and even saw someone ringling the large bell using a wooden log before walking back down to the train station and catching the train back to Tokyo.