Kochi South Breeze Hotel

Left the horrifying business hotel early and managed to take a quick tour of Okayama castle (so-so) and one of Japan's 3 greatest gardens, korakuen. The garden is rather English in that it's sculpted around grassy expanses. Everything has its own corner, but I rather dislike the avenue approach to gardens. The work that went into making the garden neat has also made it rather sterile. I can only hope the other 2 greatest gardens might be more ...

... mentre fuori diluviava. E prima di arrivare li sono stata in un onsen con vasca all'aperto vista fiume, e pioggia. Un tantino stile decadente e malinconico come panorama, ma bellissimo. Ora sono diretta a Muroto misaki, il capo a sud di Shikoku. volo a prendere il treno. Baci a tutti!

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 ...

... after folding only 644 cranes and to this day, children around the country fold cranes and send them to the children's memorial in her honour. As I walked around the town later, it hit me that I had never been to a place where actual acts of war had taken place, and that 60 years ago, the very ground that I was walking on had been covered in nothing by hate inspired rubble and dust. And so my maiden solo voyage came to an end. Good times and pleasant and poignant memories...

... in any time but now." "This is important, women must be equal, yes?" Spent a day just sleeping and relaxing, then decided to plunge into the idea of renting a car for a day to see some more of the valley. Nori-san kindly lent me his apprentice-monk Masaki as a guide and "helper for driving". Signing my name to a contract I couldn't read, we leapt into the car for a gilligan-like '3 hour tour'... Except while this was a 6hr. rental, with ...

... Kyoto has geisha, Matsuyama has the haiku, and Tokyo has nightlife and captive Russian prostitutes. Kochi's claim to fame is their famous seared bonito, the silent sumo-style fighting dogs, and slightly scientific whale meat. We'd tried the bonito the day before, and since I was curious, I wanted to go see the "amazing" dogs. I'd researched on the web before we left and had seen numerous sites purporting that there is a breed of mastiff that has been popular in the Tosa region for a ...

... Inn" which didn't make much sense since I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be in spanish. Turns out they just didn'thave the whole name of the hotel on the outside: the Los Angeles Inn. They probably didn't realize how expensive the exterior sign would be when they originally named it. Anyways, we started off and having seen how small the city is from the bus, we decided to walk. There was a dark gray and ominous looking bus with speakers on the ...

... dollars. However, the planning began as early as 1959 when a safer alternative to ferries was sought following the loss of 171 lives in a 1955 fog-covered wreck. For whatever reason it exists, to me it is an amazing engineering feat considering not only can it withstand typhoons and earthquakes, but one particularly problematic section of road is 93m above sea level to avoid any pesky fog. The Japanese do NOT do anything in halves... While ...