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Hotel Korin Joetsu

4280-1 Nadachio-machi, Nadachi-ku Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Chubu, 949-1602, Japan

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Nothing new

A travel blog entry by britadam

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Not much new to report today. Our work today consisted of cleaning Joe's shed up. It is tougher than I thought, cleaning someone else's space. It snowed a lot last night, so I kept busy with shoveling.
Just finished baking a batch of carrot, apple, ginger muffins. The oven seemed to play nice ...

Piece of Cake

A travel blog entry by britadam

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... before the middle was cooked. We figured we could salvage the cake by cutting off the burnt top, but the bottom turned out to be burnt as well. Then we decided to make the same batter over again, but as cupcakes. The cupcakes rose, and again the tops burnt.

We ended up saving the edible pieces and Adam turned out a delicious layered cake with whipping cream and strawberries. Sorry we didn't get a picture of the cake.

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Zenko-ji and Snow Monkies

A travel blog entry by britadam

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On our day off today, we took a trip into Nagano city. It was about 35 minutes by train. We visited the Zenkoji temple which is 1400 years old. It holds the first Buddhist statue ever brought to Japan. It is wrapped in cloth and is believed not to been seen by human eyes since the 1700's. A replica is shown to the public every 7 years.
Next we travelled to Yukanada, where we hung out with the snow monkeys for the afternoon. Our ...

Mochi Making

A travel blog entry by britadam

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Today we took part in day 1 of the Japanese New Year tradition of Mochi Making. Rice is steamed over an open fire and then pounded with a mallet in a hollowed out tree trunk until it is a smooth paste. They then roll it is balls and serve it either with crushed diakon and soya sauce or crushed soy bean. Adam tried his hand at the mallet swinging (hopefully the video works below). The festivities were based ...

Japanese New Year celebration

A travel blog entry by britadam

Its 12:23, Jan 1st 2012 right now. We just visited the Japanese shrines where the first event of the japanese New Year celebrations take place. We walked by at 11:30 expecting some kind of party to be taking place, but the place was deserted. We went back at 12:05 and it seems the whole town has shown up.

There is a little park with about six to eight shrines. It looks kind of like a small side street. People line up and pay their respects at ...

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