Hotel Sunroute Kochi

... train, train to saijo, bus to the rope-way, rope-way up the side of the mountain, hike to Joju and an ice cream, we were finally ready to start the actual hike at around 9:40am.

The hike started off as a leisurely stroll down hill through beautiful fall foliage until we reached the low point between Joju and Yoakashi Pass. That was the beginning of the grueling hike up seemingly endless stairs to the top.

One of the things Ishizuchi is famous for are the ...

... 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 ...

... her son and her husband who is a chief commanding officer at the Marines base down south. She invited me to come and visit them at the base and was very nice, but quite frankly, I feel that doing that would be one step away from knocking on the White House door and asking to come in for a cup of tea. 4. BAR MAC Back in Hiroshima, I took a tram (yay, trams!) to my hostel, checked in and then headed back out for a night on the town. After dinner I sat in the park on ...

... and drinking. Well, the drinking part I guess is similar to Thanksgiving.. maybe. Whatever, Brian, Glen, Ashleigh and I decided to make a trip out to Saijo to watch the Danjiri (portable shrines) be dragged thru the city. Now I'm sure you're thinking: "Wait, I thought that 'Omikoshi' meant 'portable shrine'" Well, my dear friend, you'd be correct! Danjiri and Omikoshi both mean 'portable shrine'. The only difference is ...

So after my last Kyoto night spent in a late night inaugural karaoke experience, I zoomed by train to Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four major islands with two goals: to see the secluded Iya Valley, and to meet a woman named Taeko who was email-introduced to me by my kind friend Steph. Tokyo & Kyoto were great, but the feet were blistered and ears were ringing from aural overload. The stunningly high-speed shinkansen rail network of Honshu ...

... Island may be the least visited of any of the 4 main islands of Japan, the sparsely populated lush landscapes and cloud-encrusted mountains offer a memorable and welcome change from cityscapes and agricultural fields. The train line snakes its way alongside rivers, occasionally carving its way through a badly positioned mountain where necessary - easily my favourite of the many train rides I've taken in Japan. The southern coast is ...