Kochi Terminal Hotel

... chains drapped over the edge of the mountain, which are the traditional way to climb the last 166m of the mountain. There is also a separate set of chains starting just before Yoakashi Pass and taking you 74m up to probably the most spectacular views of the whole hike. These chains are exactly what they sound like, just big chains. They hang down over the edge of cliffs and you hang on to them to scale sections of the hike. There is usually two sets of chains for ...

... than blah. From Okayama took the express down to Kochi, on the south face of Shikoku. We passed through some of the best scenery I've seen to date, mostly because Shikoku is not really developed or inhabited especially in the Iya valley region in the middle of the island. I was sleeping on and off and woke up to use traveling along a massive gorge and strung across it was a string of carp banners and windsocks (around Koboke I guess ...

... 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 ...

... labour and a number of American prisoner of war soldiers who were not known to be in the area.They burn a flame at the site and it is supposed to be extinguished when the last nuclear device is destroyed. I guess unfortunately it might as well be an eternal flame.From Hiroshima I bulleted my way to Okayama.

... in the Lonely Planet. It was a small bar with wooden walls, run by a hippie Japanese guy called Mac and his wife Yuri. This lovely couple made me feel right at home as I sat at the bar and knocked back beer after beer. They both spoke perfect English, which they said they'd learned from serving foreign customers for thirty years. We chatted about Australia and it just so happened that they'd been to Geelong before! Who'd have thought? Their CD collection was ...

Saijo is a little town in the Northern part of the island of Shikoku. Hint: Shikoku is the island that we live on. Every year, Saijo has a huge matsuri (festival) to celebrate the fall harvest. Think of it like a Thanksgiving. But with no turkey. And big wooden carts that are dragged thru the city. Also there's no pilgrims, cranberry, or dinner for that matter. But there are large shrines, lots of people, chanting ...

... Taeko-san and her husband, and returned to the dizzying shinkansen of Honshu to head south. Stopped off for a few hours in Hiroshima to see the memorials. I'm now in Nagasaki, my final spot in Japan, and both cities are as you'd expect - modern normal places that look like all the other places I've seen, but thought-provoking. I'll try to post a brief entry about them and about byzantine slipper rules before leaving Japan. Cheers to you all.

... otherwise I'll kick myself anytime anything reminds me of it. of course, it did almost get me stuck waist deep in a hole 25 meters under the city of Budapest. But that's a minor detail. I would most likely never seek whalemeat out in a restaurant again, but if offered to me, I would gladly take it. REASON #2 After lunch, we went back to watch the dogfights. We waited in line with a bunch of other tourists (all Japanese, I think it's great that Japanese are such tourists in their own ...