Kochi Palace Hotel
1-18 Nijudaimachi Kochi, Kochi, Shikoku, 780-8510, Japan
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Shikoku Island is connected to my island Honshu with some bridges and it enables you to travel between them by bus. This time, I took the bus from Nagoya to Kochi by way of Osaka. It was the second time to visit Shikoku, but I didn't visit Kochi in the first visit. So the main destination of this trip was originally supposed to Kochi, but when I was planning this trip, I realized that Kochi doesn't have many tourist attractions. According to japan-guide.com, ...
Halloween extravaganza with a Japanese twist
... and they don’t know the whole story. They are not aware there are two people before them. One is excited to share this wonderful holiday with them and the other is waiting for a moment to cause terror. Today is not the time; I will fight the urge and continue with my original intention.
Guiding children around the village is something very new to me. Not an easy job when you don’t know where ...
Happy rafting
... for dinner and breakfast?" And you have to leave the car perched on the edge a cliff and walk the last stretch because "the road gets a bit narrow up ahead" you can be sure that the big city lights won't be disturbing your tatami mat beauty sleep later that evening. As for the rafting, the river flow is pretty low at this time of year meaning that the grade 2-4 rapids become more technical to navigate and the rocks that there ...
Campsite, river, sun - perfect! What will we eat?
... was closed. On asking in the post office they told him there was another shop around 2km away, and as it was a nice morning he thought he'd walk that too. It turned out to be around 10km in total, but it actually only took about an hour and a half to walk it, along the side of a scary, but thankfully quiet, road. The shop they were talking about was actually in the next town, and nearly out of the Iya valley!
Jonny arrived back, on the bus this time, with two bags ...
We found a great campsite :) It closes tomorrow :(
After leaving Temple 11 we walked back to the train station (actually a helpful woman saw us lost and gave us a lift in her car, and also a packet of sweets!) We took a slow local train and a couple of hours later we arrived in the Oboke gorge, in central Shikoku. On arrival we looked around for a local bus, but whilst we were doing that we met an American who was heading the same way so we shared a taxi.
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