Hotel Shirogane Kumamoto

1-6-26 Nihongi Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Kyushu-Okinawa, 860-0051, Japan

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Kumamoto Layover

A travel blog entry by mchao

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Short entry today, as I'm spending most of the day in transit. Left Hiroshima mid morning on the new Sakura shinkansen (bullet train), which basically extends now to the end of Kyushu in Kagoshima.

Entering Kyushu, I noticed a shift in demographics. For some reason my train car had a fair amount of Chinese (judging by the accent, probably from Taiwan). In addition, the station announcements were now four languages (Japanese, ...

Mt. Unzendake

A travel blog entry by misocutlet

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... me. It was possible to go up farther from Nitta Pass by ropeway, but I didn't want to spend much time there. I left for the next destination Unzen Jigoku (Hell) geothermal site. The site was only 10 minutes' drive from Nita Pass. It was a tourist attraction like Whakarewarewa of Rotorua. If it had been my first time to see that kind of geothermal site, I might have been impressed, but it was just O.K. to me this time. Beside, it was heavily raining and I had to ...

On the rails to Kumamoto

A travel blog entry by helengenevere

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... able to catch the train for Shin-Osaka with about 10 minutes to spare. At the platform yet another helpful elderly man asked me if I needed assistance. I've finally got the hang of the positioning of the trains along the track - if you have a reservation in say car 8 - where you need to stand is marked on the platform (and that saves doing what I've had to do in the past - ...

Day 45 - Cute modes of transport

A travel blog entry by jklmasiatravel

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... Kotsu station? He nods his head. So we got off and were dropped off at the JR station! Which was much further than we were originally without taking the bus! We hopped into a taxi and headed to the hotel.

Once here, I thought Jase, where is the map and details for tomorrow's trip. After looking for it, and not finding it, Jason had a uh huh moment, and realised he left it on the bus! argghhh! Although I mentioned the ...

Volcano

A travel blog entry by hugeinjapan

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... What we had to do was pedal on stationary bicycles to generate electricity to light up the cherry blossom trees. Now the blossoms weren't out but it was still a big spectacle. There were 4 TV crews there, reporters of all kinds, and "professional bike riders." Of course, my friends and I were the only foreigners there so the cameras always found a way back to us. When we got our turn on the bikes, we put on the sashes, and pedaled away for 4 minutes while the mayor counted down. ...

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