Kochi Pacific Hotel
1-15 Ekimaecho Kochi, Kochi, Shikoku, 780-0053, Japan
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Kochi, Katsurahama, Oboke, Kazurabashi, Kotohira
... popular attraction seemed to be Katsuo-no-tataki, or seared bonito, and it is just a local dish. I usually expect impressive landscape or massive architecture from my destinations, so only a local dish didn't attract me to Kochi enough. However, I couldn't skip Kochi, because my plan to visit all the prefectures of Japan was underway. Then I came up with an idea to solve this problem: combined trip to Kochi and West Iya, Tokushima. Actually, I also ...
Halloween extravaganza with a Japanese twist
... going. I am still never, especially since I have no real idea of where I’m going. Things will work out just fine. There are many people on the street that seem very curious as to why all these kids behind me are all dressed up. I keep reminding myself this isn’t America and people probably never walk down the street in costume. I try to give instructions to the kids, but it just isn’t working. They ...
Happy rafting
... bounce the raft off become bigger. None of this bothered us unduly as we were far too busy getting soaked, falling in, jumping in and generally revelling in the unrivaled beauty of floating down the pristine clear water surrounded by sun drenched pine and bamboo forest. The warm bubbly waters of the onsen were only a 5 minute cable car ride down a sheer cliff face away and helped to warm us up after our numerous dips in the ...
Campsite, river, sun - perfect! What will we eat?
... shopping - though most of it was dried stuff and pot noodles as the shop was a bit rubbish. He asked if there was a suupaa, but the old lady nearly laughed at him. On the plus side he did buy so much in the shop that the lady there gave him two free gifts!
That night we ate pot noodles, dodged mosquitoes, and played scrabble. Simo also found an unopened jar of Saki, which we enjoyed very much.
Tomorrow we'll be leaving Iya again and heading back around ...
We found a great campsite :) It closes tomorrow :(
... at Kuzurabashi about thirty mins later after passing a multitude of very winding roads. There is a nice 'vine' bridge here, though it is also reinforced with steel cables! We'd heard there was a nice campsite at Kuzurabashi. It turned out to be a lot further from the vine bridge than we'd thought, but when we got there it was a lovely place, perfect even, with great camping spaces, free hot showers, not too expensive, and ...


