Hotel New Shikoku Kochi

... year I was born ). It is also an important center for Shugendo, a mixture of Shintoism and Buddhism.<br><br>We got up at around 5:00am Saturday morning to catch the train to Saijo a town bigger than Hojo, but smaller than Matsuyama about an hour away from both. We caught the train and made our way to Saijo. In Saijo we just had enough time to grab some snacks from the combini ( Japanese convenience store ), before we had to catch the bus to the Ishizuchi rope-way.<br ...

... concert at the castle, which I dragged myself out to see. Thankfully the rain had ceased and the castle was really lit up with lights and decorations. Caught some traditional kata music and there was a Shinto play at the top of the castle. It looked like an entire family participated, banging drums, dancing and bowing. There was a teenager who was spinning like a dervish with a tray of rice, which surprisingly he kept from flying off ...

ciao a tutti e che bello vedere un po' di commenti!! solo un rapido aggiornamento, ieri ho fatto i mille mila gradini (1800 e passa + il ritorno) del tempio Kompirasan, stupendo davvero, mentre la notte l'ho passata in una casa molto molto giapponese in mezzo al bosco e sulla riva di un fiume ...

Primo traghetto che personalmente a me da una particolare libidine caricarci la moto e navigare per mare ogni tanto. Fiondo nell' isola di Shikoku , l' isola di un pellegrinaggio Zen da 1500 km attraverso 88 templi . Io la taglio a meta' naturalmente per montagne e dormo a Kochi altra citta' di mare e naruralmente si cena a base di sushi freschissimo . Sto viaggiando un po in fretta un mio amico a Shizuoka mi ha invitato ad andare ad Iwata a visitare la fabbrica della Yamaha .Potevo dire di no?

brianne made the mistake of NOT coming home and sitting right down to enter these details.... so now she barely recalls them :( ~but to make a long story short.... my friend shannon copp (a shiga JET) invited myself and two other shiga JETs (Nan, and Anna) to ...

In Hiroshima I visited the famous or infamous Atomic Dome(ground zero August 1945)and learned a lot of interesting details. The first atomic bomb was detonated at 600 meters above the city to maximize its lethal potential. It resulted in over 140,000 deaths including 14,000 Koreans who were forced in to ...

... photographed tourist attractions in Japan. I laughed at the suckers spending money on tacky souvenir like pictures of themselves with the gate, taken by a professional (or really just a grungy old dude) photographer, and was quite proud of the photo that I managed to take of myself. Good old cameras with timers! Good old rocks to sit them on! 3. MT. MISSEN Whilst on Miyajima, I took a trip to the top of Mt. Missen via two rope ways and a bloody steep hike. Was a ...

... of the grocery store parking lots and made our way over to the shrines. Brian talked to one of the shrine pullers, and he mentioned that the main event had already happened 2 hours prior, of which I forget, but he also mentioned that they would be pulling the Danjiri into the river the next day, which was supposed to be pretty spectacular. Dammit. We got our closer look, watched the last of them leave, and got back in ...

... in any time but now." "This is important, women must be equal, yes?" Spent a day just sleeping and relaxing, then decided to plunge into the idea of renting a car for a day to see some more of the valley. Nori-san kindly lent me his apprentice-monk Masaki as a guide and "helper for driving". Signing my name to a contract I couldn't read, we leapt into the car for a gilligan-like '3 hour tour'... Except while this was a 6hr. rental, with ...

Making an early start from Hiroshima I once again flashed my Rail Pass and jumped on the Shinkansen - this time for Kochi, via Okayama. It is unbelievable to be able to book the two tickets with only a 20 minute stop-off in between - just enough time to get to the next platform, and simply not possible to do when flying. Kochi is situated sort of in the middle of the southern coast of Shikoku Island, and getting there from the main island of ...