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Kirishima Hotel

3948 Takachiho Makizono-cho Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu-Okinawa, 899-6603, Japan

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Slight misdirection

A travel blog entry by evelyncurry

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... again and helped us via a fluent speaking Japanese girl working at the Information Desk. She took us to the ticket office and explained our situation. They girl at the ticket office went to the terminals where you deposit your used tickets. She and another girl, took out 3 drawers containing a few hundred tickets EACH, and over the next hour, they ceaselessly looked for ...

Trapped in Limbo

A travel blog entry by mchao

The most disappointed you can be is when you are borne up on the wings of hope, only to have it turn out to be a mirage and then fling you back down to Earth.

Today began with great news--the typhoon took a more easterly route, sparing Kagoshima and the airport. The wind was low and though overcast, all things pointed to an easy flight to Nagoya. Therefore, I was quite in a good mood when I met up for two to other guests for breakfast. We had stuck ...

Kagoshima: The Calm before the Storm

A travel blog entry by mchao

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Today was one of those days that you wished you have hindsight beforehand. It's a humid, not too hot day that just screams the eerie calm before the storm. On one hand, that I was able to do Yakushima in its entirety with reasonably good weather was a blessing, especially since the oncoming typhoon has turned the seas unnavigable by boat.

But this morning was just a bit drizzly, a day made for laziness if there ever was one. If I had ...

Around Kagoshima: Volcano and Festival

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... are the giant daikon radishes that grow here on the island. In fact, it looks like the world record daikon (over 30 lbs) was grown here on the rich volcanic soil. Now the shops don't sell the entire daikon--it'd be hard for anyone to finish that off, but they have pickled slices of them. Their diameter just gives you a good idea how giant this things are.

After about 3 hours of getting sun eroded, I hopped on the ferry back to Kagoshima, where I ...

Kirishima: Plan B it is

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... several volcanic mountains. High up, they offer hikers a single long chain of scrubby volcanoes that face both the ocean on the Kagoshima side and the sea towards Korea. And today's weather was great--dry, cool and clear. But arriving at the bus stop at Kirishima jingu, I found out that the recent volcanic activity of one of the middle peaks, Shinmoedake, had basically closed down the entire trail. In fact, the visitor's center and ...

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