Hotel Okura Kobe

... we got a private double room for the same price. <br><br>We slept for a bit more then wandered around the local streets and walked into a little cafe and ordered some food - a big bowl of noodles, a bowl of soup and a beer for 80p! We then had a quick wander down the main shopping street which was lit up by thousands of neon lights and then headed towards the Bund for to see the famous skyscrapers of the financial district - unfortunately the entire waterfront was ...

Seconds please. I had to go back to Osaka, one way or another (my return flight was leaving from here). Ate just as well if not better than the first go around. Went to the Takoyaki museum at Universal city walk but it was more tako vendors than museum, not such a bad thing. Had simply amazing Kobe ...

... and three months study in Japanese language and culture.<br><br>At the end of our conversation Akram said, "Please stay in touch. You are the only American I know."<br><br>That's kinda cool. I'm definitely going to stay in touch.<br><br>During the course of my brief stay I also met Jeanne and Toshi...<br><br>Jeanne had just arrived from Korea. She was an interesting sort - a French-Canadian art student working on her masters degree. Her current project was in ...

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... the deer and the cherry blossoms. It's pretty special that we're here during this time. The cherry blossoms come out once a year for only 2 weeks max, and they are just gorgeous. After we got back to the ship, we grabbed a bite to eat at the ship, and I arranged for a babysitter to hang with Bear from 8 until 10:30. Matthew ...

... Kobe. Besides being the namesake to the treaty to address global warming, Kyoto was the ancient capital of Japan. We went to Sanjusangen-do Temple, which has 1001 statues of the Buddhist deity Kannon - 1000 standing, and one giant one seated. We visited a 1293 Zen temple called Nanzenji. We went to Heinan shrine which is bright orange and green and famous for its huge garden (which we didn't see cause it was too cold.) Kyoto also used to be famous for its geisha ...

... We finally decided to get off after riding in what seemed like a circle, but it took us at least five minutes (holding up the bus as well) to figure out how much we owed and where to put the money. Despite all the hassles of travel we have found Japan to be an amazing place. We have explored the coastline, himejji castle, small fishing villages and Kobe. We thought it would be nice ...

... can't escape even the safest countries- as yesterday the mayor of Nagasaki was shot twice point blank and killed by a member of the Japanese mafia (the Yakuza). This is big news in Japan as handguns are strictly banned and only five politicians are known to have been killed since World War II. The headline reads "Nagasaki mayor dies after being shot by gangster." The assassin had lodged a complaint against the Nagasaki Government after his car was damaged several ...

... vendar z velik hello kitty. je kul, sam prevec umetno. in nihce ne gre delat tour, kot ga priporocajo, js sem ga in prides v ful kul predele, kjer si sam - in normalno rekonstruirano ;). moram se napisat, da sem danes k sem sedela na zelezniski postaji in cakala na vlak ... skor padla z klopce, ker se je mimo prpeljal en vesoljsko zgledajoc vlak, ki se ni ustavil. Zdej js se ponavad vozim s Shinkansen k grejo ene 300 na uro, sam to karkol je ze ...

... the bar we decide to just stay out all night and karaoke or something. After walking around awhile, we come across this place that, because of the size of our group, will let us in for the rest of the night with drinks for what was about $20 per person! (Y2500) There we are in this private karaoke room pounding drinks and wailing American tunes through the karaoke system from 12:00 to 5 am! Sounds strange, but it was a good time...I'm just thankful the next day was one of my days off.