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Just started this blog to try and remember all that we've done so far. It is day 10 here in Japan and the weather has been very hot and humid. It has been so hot that Skyler said that he wished the outside would have airconditioning! We've spent almost everyday going to ...

... I don't want to know). They even seem to eat it for morning tea. In fact, the kiosk we went to went to the length of writing a sign letting us hungry, calorie-foraging foreigners know that they'd run out of lavender ice-cream. Sigh..., we had to make do with mixed melon ice-cream instead. Whilst frustrated in looking for a bin for the serviette, we did some research and discovered that it's rude in Japan to eat or drink whilst walking down the street, and that ...

... few gaijin, and English speakers were not common. Check out Hirosaki Castle for cherry blossoms if at all possible... even in pouring rain and cold, it was gorgeous, rivaling what we saw in Kyoto... but it's NORTH (nearly same latitude as Minneapolis). AND surrounded by or IN mountains... Plan for life, because damn, it comes at you fast and cold... but it's a small price to pay for the spectacular beauty.

... its effort... amazingly enough, it didn't reduce the number of people, just their ability to avoid knocking into us! Between ducking under weeping cherry tree branches and bobbing under and over other umbrellas, it looked like this crazy dance that really started to get less funny as the temperature continued to drop with the rain. We made our way back in the moat, saw an enormous, ancient (boy) ginko tree, then stumbled across a RED CROSS tent... bless ...

... there we reached a small town where it is possible to visit Samurai houses (very touristic...). We stopped few days around Tazawa lake, the deapest in Japan (428m). We enjoyed the Onsen (hot springs) of the area and some hiking. After a nice rest around the lake we headed to Aomori to make our last stop in Tohoku. This town is not really nice as it was ...

... onsen (sources chaudes). Pour cause de gros nuages et de neige on n'a pas pu randonner. Plan B : Sukayu Onsen ! On a passe la nuit au chaud dans un grand chalet repute pour son onsen mixte geant (permettant parait-il d'accueillir 1000 personnes...). L'eau laiteuse bleu-vert au gout surprenant d'agrume, l'odeur de souffre chatouille les narines ...

When I was 2 years old, my father, a captain in the Air Force, was told we were going to be stationed in Japan. This was about 19 years ago. For the 4 years I lived in Japan, I spoke the language, when to school with the Japanese kids and lived as one of them. My family traveled all over the country as well as to Thai Land. I don't remember too much about our time there. I do remember riding on a ...

... him up on his offer of some fried bacon and eggs if it had been open. It was a quiet day that we spent here, from our early start in the morning, we both tired so after a light dinner we headed to bed where we staying at the Tokoyo Inn, which is a chain business hotel (there are no hostels in the town of Aomori) it had free internet and free Japanese breakfast (pickles, rice and miso soup) which we dont really like, so we had some yoghurt and muesli of our own.

... and left for the last destination, Aizu Wakamatsu in Fukushima.

We were kind of tired in Aizu, although I didn't want finish our travel. The main tourist spot is the Castle of Aizu Wakamatsu aka Tsuruga Castle. We took a long walk from and to the closest station, but it was O.K., because we hoped that the travel lasted so long. Then we had more than enough conversation before we came back.