Kochi Sakura Hotel

... section, one for each hand.<br><br>At first everyone was a little reluctant. I expressed my interest in climbing as well as a few others, but no one wanted to go first. Of course, being the brave girl she is, just like when she dived into the piranha infested waters of the amazon before anyone else, Jessica went first. I followed just behind her, Saffiya after me and so on. I would sat a little more than half of the eight of us decided to take the chains up. The ...

... concert at the castle, which I dragged myself out to see. Thankfully the rain had ceased and the castle was really lit up with lights and decorations. Caught some traditional kata music and there was a Shinto play at the top of the castle. It looked like an entire family participated, banging drums, dancing and bowing. There was a teenager who was spinning like a dervish with a tray of rice, which surprisingly he kept from flying off ...

ciao a tutti e che bello vedere un po' di commenti!! solo un rapido aggiornamento, ieri ho fatto i mille mila gradini (1800 e passa + il ritorno) del tempio Kompirasan, stupendo davvero, mentre la notte l'ho passata in una casa molto molto giapponese in mezzo al bosco e sulla riva di un fiume ...

Primo traghetto che personalmente a me da una particolare libidine caricarci la moto e navigare per mare ogni tanto. Fiondo nell' isola di Shikoku , l' isola di un pellegrinaggio Zen da 1500 km attraverso 88 templi . Io la taglio a meta' naturalmente per montagne e dormo a Kochi altra citta' di mare e naruralmente si cena a base di sushi freschissimo . Sto viaggiando un po in fretta un mio amico a Shizuoka mi ha invitato ad andare ad Iwata a visitare la fabbrica della Yamaha .Potevo dire di no?

brianne made the mistake of NOT coming home and sitting right down to enter these details.... so now she barely recalls them :( ~but to make a long story short.... my friend shannon copp (a shiga JET) invited myself and two other shiga JETs (Nan, and Anna) to ...

In Hiroshima I visited the famous or infamous Atomic Dome(ground zero August 1945)and learned a lot of interesting details. The first atomic bomb was detonated at 600 meters above the city to maximize its lethal potential. It resulted in over 140,000 deaths including 14,000 Koreans who were forced in to ...

... strong and Mac blew me away when he played 'Bloke' by Chris Franklin just for me! I don't know if he really understood the lyric, 'I'm a bloke, I'm an ocker and I really like your knockers', but it was a sweet gesture nonetheless. Also made friends with the lovely Yuki from Okinawa, who was sitting beside me at the bar and getting drunk at the same rate as me. Her grasp of English was about as good as my grasp of Japanese, but we managed to communicate through the ...

... and drinking. Well, the drinking part I guess is similar to Thanksgiving.. maybe. Whatever, Brian, Glen, Ashleigh and I decided to make a trip out to Saijo to watch the Danjiri (portable shrines) be dragged thru the city. Now I'm sure you're thinking: "Wait, I thought that 'Omikoshi' meant 'portable shrine'" Well, my dear friend, you'd be correct! Danjiri and Omikoshi both mean 'portable shrine'. The only difference is ...

... asked me to retrieve my guidebook from upstairs so she could read aloud to everyone the page about America I'd had written for me. The kids were great, and the parents were firmly, gently telling them to try some english with the bug-eyed, bearded one. We spoke a little, they asked questions about American flag and Halloween, and then I drew the Olympic flag and said 'my favorite' and tried to explain I am most proud about America when I ...

... was not particularly unique however - a long stretch of undercover shops much like in every other city. While it was disappointing to see that the McDonald's was easily the busiest "restaurant" around (mostly school kids), it was refreshing to see a crack squad of bike straighteners sweep through the mall... straightening people's parked bikes up! There were also some hot mall cop chicks spreading the message of mall safety and enforcing the ...