Hotel Route Inn Shinonoi Nagano

... cookies, a fondue machine, a soft serve ice cream machine, soda fountain, and espresso machine. They even had these sugar syrup that you can slather your dessert if you felt that it wasn't sweet enough. They also had some pasta, soups, and sandwiches if you wanted some kind of real food. At first I thought I was in heaven. But after tasting some of the cakes, I thought that they were really bland. I was expecting yellow cake but ...

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Settling in in Matsumoto. Spent about 4 1/2 hours on trains today, slow one from Nikko to Utsunomiya, a shinkansen to Omiya, another shinkansen to Nagano, then another slow train to Matsumoto. Signs of civilization at the Matsumoto station - a Starbucks!

Hoping that I can find the castle tomorrow. The ryokan has bicycles to lend, so I'm going to try and ...

... attacki**t d** Japansiche Bär auch nur Japan** und keine Gaijins - was d** Bär net kennt, des frisst a a net... ne...
Sind noch etwas durch Nagano geschländ**t und dann wied** retour, zum Jusco und aufs Zimm**. Leck** onigiri und einen Tofu-klotz gekauft und geschnappofratzt und ich hab mich wied** üb**s Natto getraut. Das sind f**menti**te Sojabohnen (sup**gesund!! ab** d** g**uch...naja - Quagel is a net bess**). Hab wied** rausgefunden, das ...

... reminds me, last night i spend in a former ninja training vilage high in the mountains...
when i went to the next city, 3 kms sout, i met a nice family, wich sat down with me and eventually the maybe 50 year old woman invited me to stay in her house...and this more than once...after my experiences in china i said nothing binding, because they dont give a **** there about promises, concept of hounour unknown...they have the face-concept, something slightly different.
dont ...

From Obuse, we travelled further along the train line, into the mountains and to a place called Yudanaka. In the winter you can go skiing around here but obviously there was no snow whilst we were here, just a bit of rain. The reason we came here was to visit the snow monkeys. These monkeys are macaques which come down the valley and are partial to bathing in the natural onsen (hot springs). We got a bus ...

... togeth 1000yen (7 quid) for dinner- 2 bowls of noodles, and then went to sleep broke and dreading that we would be stuck there forever. In the morning we arose early to try and get money but no-one could speak any english, nightmare! In the end there was one man from the bank who came and showed us where there was a 3rd atm, that we were unaware of, and sure enough it ejected those lovely yen notes for us :). We were very relieved, and went back to get our bags then left!

... and snow, but you have ropes either side to help you up onto the trail and also along the path. There is a sudden drop to one side which is covered in trees with lots of things to spot along the way. Naturally I didn't spot anything but i'm sure they're there!!

The monkeys come down into the pool every 2 hours or so when fed and are absolutely hilarious to watch. The actual area stinks of ammonia and you have to be careful not to tred in poo ...

... 5 snakes! One was dead, but it still counts. Other tourists have told us they aren`t really poisonous, but we`re not so sure... Thursday we took a bus out to the Japan Alps National Park and stayed in a campground (in a hut, not a tent, since they don`t rent tents until August - what??) in Kamikochi. It was really beautiful. So perfectly pictureseque with the river and the trees and the mountains.... ahhh. There were thousands of tourists walking around the river, but when we went for a ...

We took the Shinkansen to Nagano using our rail pass and after arriving found out which bus to catch out to M-Wave, the ice skating rink used in the winter Olympics. We had never been ice skating so were willing to give it a try.

Took an old wooden floored bus out to M-Wave and walked past a sign in Japanese then paid for our ticket to the ...