Jal City Nagano

... nuestro caso la soledad, que contrasta enormemente con la visión de los gigantescos edificios que lo rodean. <br><br>Podríamos destacar el estanque de "Shioiri-no-ike" cuya agua es salada y se extrae de la bahía mediante un sistema de exclusas. En el estanque y conectado con un bello puente de madera (118 metros) está la isla de "Nakajima-no-ochaya" donde el que lo desee puede acercarse a la casa ...

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

... Thunfisch wird ja dank d** Fischmethoden imm** we***** - auch ist fraglich ob das ganze Delfinfreundlich abgeht... jaja die Japan** und die Delfine ist ja ein eigenes Thema) ab** es ist einfach zu leck**. Wenn dir d** Fisch direkt auf d** Zunge z**rinnt... Umweltfreundlichkeit ist eh ein zweischneidiges Schw**t, da wird ein**seits alles mögliche eingepackt (wrapping culture Japan!!) selbst wenn man v**packtes eis kauft, wirds nochmal in ein Tütel extra ...

... the citys 1500 dollar a month is a average income by now...<br>and a lot of people do stupid jobs...in a fuelstation you have a lot of people for giving you the bills, filling your tank, wiping your windscreen...same same for building sites on the road ..always people with flags who say you what you can see yourself...even in supermarketparkingspaces you have guys stopping the pedestrians like we have it for small school children...<br>ah, and the screming guys outside the ...

... ones were burning hot. It was very relaxing and you could see a nice view of the valley and the monkeys hopping about around you. As we were right at the bottom of the valley we could see people really high above us but they couldnt see us very well, which was only a good thing. We then went back to the park and stayed for a while longer before getting the bus and train to Nagano, the main city of that ...

For our third day of the rail pass, we zoomed off to Obuse, near the Japanese alps, north west of Tokyo. This involved first getting the bullet train to Nagano, then getting a local train to Obuse, the smallest town in that area. It was a very attractive little place, with pretty houses and well kept flowerbeds. So, you might be wondering why we came here, well, this is where the artist Hokosai painted in his final years, and there is a museum here showcasing some of his work ...

... The Japanese students asked us questions, and we asked the Japanese students questions. They were all anonymous, which was nice. The questions ranged from what is your favorite foods to do you think we speak english well, to "would you ever date a Japanese person?" It was great to see how curious our new friends had become and it was amazing to realize how much we don't really know about each others cultures. Although the Japanese are ...

After Spencer sleeping all day in the TV room nursing a hangover and then me booking a hotel in the completely wrong area of Japan (although very very luxourious resulted in a 7.15am wake up call to get to Nagano) we made our way to the snow monkeys!<br><br>After getting our bus to literally the middle of nowhere, we then walked for 40 minutes along a beautiful snowy trail to where the monkey sanctuary is hidden in the snow. The path is covere din ...

... to come by to take us back into town. Eventually one arrived and we walked up to the Zenkoji Temple past a street full of temple residences.<br><br>We wandered around the temple complex and gardens and even saw someone ringling the large bell using a wooden log before walking back down to the train station and catching the train back to Tokyo.<br>

... che sgattaiolavano alle 6 del mattino per la cerimonia. La oste, una pseudo suora che snocciolava qualche parola di inglese, dopo qualche giorno penso si sia affezionata a noi perche' ci faceva sempre trovare al nostro ritorno delle mele sbucciate e mezzo litro di sake.... che credetemi aiuta a dormire per terra....!!! Spostandoci in paesini piu' piccoli in montagna abbiamo avuto l'occasione di alloggiare nelle tipiche locande tradizionali (Ryokan), convivendo con ...