Hotel Koyanagi Matsumoto

... puerta del Mausoleo de la familia "Tokugawa".

Continuamos la ruta pasando junto a la "Tokyo Tower" finalizada en 1958, siendo la torre de acero autosoportada más alta del mundo con 333 metros, 13 más que la Torre Eiffel de Paris aunque con un 40 % menos de peso. Siguen sorprendiéndonos las gasolineras con sus surtidores colgando del techo, lo que deja mucho más espacio para los vehículos y ...

Settling in in Matsumoto. Spent about 4 1/2 hours on trains today, slow one from Nikko to Utsunomiya, a shinkansen to Omiya, another shinkansen to Nagano, then another slow train to Matsumoto. Signs of civilization at the Matsumoto station - a Starbucks!

Hoping that I can find the castle tomorrow. The ryokan has bicycles to lend, so I'm going to try and ...

... ja einmal war uns so als ob uns etwas größ**es weit** oben eine zeitlang begleitet hätte ... bin schon etwas schnell** gegangen sich** ist sich**... Als Andi es auch bem**kte, hat ** noch sch**zhaft gemeint "Vielleicht gibts hi** ja Bären...haha" - jaja
ob uns d** H**r nur einen Bären, mit den Bären aufbinden wollte - haben wir jetzt im int**net nachgelesen... siehe auch hi**: http://japaninfo.at/news/japan-aktuell_ 18-barenattacken
Hui...na ...

... 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 ...

... There we spent the night in a ryoken- a traditional guest house with tatimi mats that you sleep on. The place was very old and our room was enveloped by cool paper sliding doors. The hostess poured us some green tea before she left and gave us kimonos to wear around the place. For dinner we went out and found ourselves in a Hawaiian restaurant- bit odd I know! Then we went back and slept on the floor.

... they are willing to share information, it just takes time. The ride back was filled with American and Japanese chatter, as we had all become good friends at this point. Bonding over questions and beer is never a bad thing :) We will be meeting up with a bunch of the students this thursday and most of them are coming to Boston this summer, which is really nice. We will be able to show them our home, as they have graciously shown us theirs.

Day two of the seminar included presentations by all the American students on a policy book and another book called Japan: Unbound by John Nathan. My presentations focused on Fiscal Policy comparing Japan and America and Breakdown in the Classroom, a focus on Education. After the presentations, we broke into smaller groups with some of the Japanese ...

... tocht door de bergen. En: aan de andere kant van de bergen is het weer fantastisch! Vanmiddag een kasteel bekeken. het eerste kasteel omringd door water. Erg mooi. Verder is hier niet veel te zien buiten het wintersporten om (daar is het nu het seizoen echt niet voor!). Vanavond zijn we naar de Viewing geweest bij het kasteel. Het is een van de laatste dagen dat de bloesem (sakura) wordt gevierd. Er was een podium op de veranda van ...

... 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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We took the Shinkansen to Nagano using our rail pass and after arriving found out which bus to catch out to M-Wave, the ice skating rink used in the winter Olympics. We had never been ice skating so were willing to give it a try.

Took an old wooden floored bus out to M-Wave and walked past a sign in Japanese then paid for our ticket to the ...