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Day 46 - Magical Miyajima
... out to find dinner that evening . We chose one of the first restaurants we came across this time, very close to the hotel. It was great fun, as soon as a customer walks in they all shout out hello and then find you a seat. This time we sat at a long table with various other people. The staff run around very quickly and all shout out or sing to each other.....we were starting to realise it is a theme in some Japanese restaurants.....The food was lovely, I had some sort ...
Dag 5, Iwakuni en Miyajima
... strand was dat er overal krabbetjes liepen. Er waren er ontzettend veel. Het was ons als eerder opgevallen hoe weinig vogels er eigenlijk in Japan zijn en nu we bij de zee waren kon je dit overduidelijk zien. De krabbetjes in Nederland zouden allang opgegeten zijn voordat het volledig Eb zou zijn geworden.
Na Miyajima zijn we teruggegaan naar het hotel en omdat we er de volgende dag vroeg uitmoesten, hebben we de tassen alvast ingepakt.
Next stop Nagasaki!!
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Hiroshima
... to Mrs. Gandhi (1974) and Mr. Vajpayee (1998). These were among the many other letters sent frequently to the US, USSR/Russia, France, Britain, Israel.
Surprisingly, there were several displays on the science of nuclear weapons. The city of Hiroshima has spared no effort to educate visitors on the exact principles of physics which decimated their population in an instant. Neutrons colliding with nuclei setting off chain reactions releasing ...
Close Encounters of the Deer Kind
... this style of theatre is over 500 years old. The Japanese, themselves, have difficulty following it because of the ancient way of speaking and how the actors draw out the syllables in many words. It occurred to me that it was like watching Shakespeare or Chaucer, with beautiful costumes, chanting, and slow, graceful movements in an authentic setting.
The temple was originally built in 503 and rebuilt to ...
A-bombs and bombshells
... to be particularly dirty. One guy even told me that pimps refused him entry to a brothel for this reason! Don’t worry about the fact that everyone is naked. Bath houses here don’t have the same connotations they do back home… as far as I know. In Korea it’s normal for people to sleep in big communal rooms in the bath houses known as jimjilbangs.
Unfortunately the lobby (unlike the rest of the building) reeked of ...