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Bay of Many Islands
... Masamune, the feudal lord of Sendai, was seeing the sights of Matsushima Bay, he was deeply impressed with a well-shaped island. So he said to his followers, "If someone could move that island into my castle, I would give him lots of money." It has been called "Senkan Island" ever since.
Overall, it was a very nice trip and best of all, I had lots of time to walk, and walk, walk ...
Sendai, Shiowaga and Matsushima
... around the area-espacially in Shiogama which was more exposed. Construction and abandoned buildings are reminders left behind.
The ferry ride was nice-with descriptions of the island names-man ...
Xian- last day
... hazelnuts, but how we were wrong it not only smelt but tasted like fish. Since we had done the wild goose pagoda the day before we had plenty of time before our train left for Su Jou at 5:30.
After taking a power **** ( when you push out a pee to avoid as much time in the toilets as possible) we got on the train. Evie and I sharing a 4 person cabin with Louis and Luke. The girls in the bottom, boy on ...
Towards tsunami territory
... more pronounced. I even had my own reservations, particularly as I passed through Fukushima station on my journey up.
If this attitude is representative of the wider population, reports of devastation to tourist numbers is probably no surprise. For example, this article talks about a 90% drop in visitors for nearby Matsushima, during peak summer season last year:
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Domo Arigato Peace Boat!
... Japan is that 90% of the people in Japan only speak Japanese. This is very different to Thailand or Korea where English is a primary second language spoken by most young people. It not that the Japanese people don’t speak any English at all, they are just more shy about using the English they do know. I got lost so many times in Tokyo, many people would stop to help seeing that I was obviously lost and we would use gestures and scattered Japanese/ English to connect ...
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