Hotel Shiobara Garden Nasushiobara

und weiter geht es...

Nach 2,5 Stunden hatten wir den kleinen Ort Nikko erreicht. Es gibt auch eine private Zug-Line (TOBU) von Tokyo aus - diese benoetigt nur 1,5 Stunden. Wir benutzen aber "JR Linien". Vom Bahnhof haben wir dann ein Taxi ins Hotel genommen. Wir haben unser Gepaeck abgestellt und sind zu Fuss zur Tempel-Anlage gelaufen. Beeindruckt von den alten Gebaeuden haben wir auch den historischen Rueckweg ueber die alte Bruecke am Fluss ...

... person seemed to be alright and the train ride resumed. We got some Bento boxes for the Shinkansen ride back to Tokyo.

I was not that tired when we arrived in Tokyo. I think this was the first day I got over my jet lag. So we decided to go over to the Tokyo harbor area to visit Muscle Park. Muscle Park is a mini amusement park with strength, agility, and mental activities. The real reason why we came was b/c they had ...

Toured the temples at Nikko today. Very impressive, but the fact that everything was in Japanese (no English) and I don't know much about Buddism, it was really a matter of walking around and admiring these cool buildings. I bought a picture book rather than trying to take a bunch of amateurish photos - maybe I can get my daughter to translate?

Because of this, touring the site only ...

...oder wir zu ihm.

Tja, jeder, der eines Tages vor hat, Japan zu erkunden, der kann getrost einen grossen Bogen um Nikko machen, ausser man steht auf Pensionistenstadt und absolut totes Nachtleben. Eins muss man dem kleinen Oertchen lassen, es gibt echt schoene, gruene Waelder, Berge und einen sehr netten Fluss. Dort haben wir auch ein schoenes Plaetzchen zum Zeit totschlagen gefunden, weil`s ja sonst nichts gibt.

Wir haben uns ...

Note to self: Don't create passwords with strange characters when you're going to have to use a foreign keyboard...

Returned to the ryokan for dinner and met some of the other guests. Two couples from Australia and one from Germany. Had (an amazing) dinner with the Ozzies. Eventually I'll get photos up, but think fish, rice, sashimi ...

Nun, gestern haben wir schweren Herzens mein geliebtes Tokyo hinter uns gelassen und haben unsere erste Shinkansenfahrt gen Nikko angetreten.
Es gab ein paar Zeitprobleme, allerdings fahren diese Zuege so ca. alle 20 min, darum war das dann auch nicht wirklich ein Problem. Allerdings kamen wir genau wie vorhergesagt, jedoch nicht wie geplant irgendwann nach 6, also dann, als schon finster war, in der menschenleeren Kleinstadt... naja, im Vergleich zu ...

Today I went on my first outing on my lonesomen (without the aid of my guide Toshimi). I decided to go Nikko, a town north of Tokyo which features an interesting temple, a beautiful lake, and a fresh mountain air experience. After a little confusion at the train station I finally got on the right train which would take me north of Tokyo and toward my destination. Half of the fun of using the train as transportation is you get to see a ...

As the proverb goes, Don't say, "fine" until you visit Nikko." Was it so fine? That was the question bringing me to Nikko. Nikko is far from Tokyo and it takes more than 2 hours to get there. I took a long distance night bus from Nagoya, arriving at Tokyo at 6 in the morning and it was enogh to make it to the Tobu train from Asakusa at 7:10, arriving at Nikko 9:20 by rapid-transit train ...

We left Tokyo on a train, headed North 2 hours to Nikko. We walked the 20 minutes to our hostel, which is in the woods near a river and walking trails. We were going to stay a 3rd night but the lodge was booked up so we decided to plan out the rest of our trip and only stay 2 nights there.

We have been buying breakfast foods from convience stores to save some money and we walked to the bus station for tourist ...

... hacia de millonario. Me parecio entender que la geisha se lo intentaba ligar para casarse con el porque tenia pasta y el millonario se da cuenta y le da calabazas.


En la siguiente obra me dormi porque no pillaba ni unao. La dejamos a mitad y nos fuimos a ver los museos de tortura. Habia algun que otro chisme bastante macabros, como una tabla con forma de sierra, donde hacian a los prisioneros sentarse (estilo japones, sobre las rodillas), para luego ponerles ...