Hotel Masudaya Shimada
1354 Sakamoto Shimada, Shizuoka, Chubu, 427-0111, Japan
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Nice Retreat In Suburban Hamamatsu
When you talk about Hamamatsu maybe your first image could be those of international manufacturers such as Suzuki, Yamaha and Kawai. I have to admit that these giant firms make this city famous worldwide but little is known about great historical sites in suburban Hamamatsu. Ryotanji Temple ...
The Hike Up Mount Fuji
... pushing it in terms of consciousness and health. However, I still wanted to make it to the top and I did not want to make Kelcey miss the sun rise due to my circumstance (and I knew she wouldn’t leave me, even though I told her to do so on multiple occasions). We took multiple breaks and Kelcey’s encouraging words really are what made me continue moving. She would be ahead of me, climb up the rocks, and then stick her hand out to help me up, as I was a ...
Back to Hamamatsu and family dinner
This morning we got up, had another traditional Japanese breakfast which included rice (as always), tofu and some raw fish.
Then we took a train back to Hamamatsu (Aki's home town). Before meeting with some of the relatives (lots of brothers and cousins) I managed to check out the Hamamatsu castle. It was built by Takugawa Ieyasu about 450 ...
I Made It!
... pay. Weirdness: at the till, you don't put money directly in the cashier's hand. You put it in a tray, and then they put your change there as well so you don't actually touch hands. Must be a hygiene thing. They had a hot water tap so you could get going on your noodles, although we couldn't figure out which button was hot water at first..
There was nowhere to sit so we slummed it on the ground and ate our curry noodles. Seriously for 195 yen, you can't do ...
Daidogei World Cup (Street Performance Festival)
... long before the day. It was possible to watch the final stage at a big screen installed just outside of the premium theatre and in fact, a lot of people was watching it there, when I left the venue. At last, I took a few pictures of Sunpu Park, which was a former Sunpu Castle premises, and headed back home. When I got home and checked up on the official website of the World Cup, it had announced that the winner of ...


