Hotel Metropolitan Takasaki
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Mt Asama and onioshidashi
... arrived at Karuizawa where we started to climb Mt Asama.
Karuizawa is famous for being the playground of the rich. It is where the current Emperor met his wife, and Yoko Ono and John Lennon used to holiday here. The most annoying thing about Japan is that the speed limit on A roads is 50kph, i.e. 30 mph. Kevin struggled to keep the speed down but others overtook us.
We wound up the mountain to Onioshidashi Park where you ...
Winter Granted
... course we'd just missed one, so we walked up to the bend in the river where the larger hotels and the bus stop are. There was a very small waiting room with a couple of stools, a vending machine, and a sink in the corner. I left M-P there while I walked further up the hill to take some more pictures of the winter wonderland, because that would be my only snow of the season, except for Tokyo's Yearly Day of Snow (which came on the 29th of ...
The Belly Button Festival
... So, I am from Louisiana and know a little about parade culture. It was interesting to see a kind of parade krewe culture present be it on a smaller scale. I originally thought it would be like some hard core people, enlisted children, and retirees. However, there were many business and other groups taking part. For example, the government workers, fire fighters, train workers, and a local bank were among the ranks. ...
Lavender Park
... taste. Then we ate a mouth watering hamburger and followed it up with lavender ice cream. They ice cream was stacked so high that my ice cream almost toppled over joining the myriad corpses of its fallen brethren.
We listened to a flute player and walked around the upper gardens. We took pictures. We smelled and generally just relaxed. A top a further ridge was a man with 7 pianos stacked at ...
Volleyball Taikai! 大会
... salt candy and power drinks before. They decorated their classrooms and boards and had many pep rallies. You could not help to be excited. The winners were ecstatic for the next several classes and were tickled when I would address the class as "Good morning, volley ball champions or what is the answer volley ball ...