Kosenkaku Kobe

... 10 minuutin päähän Kiotoon. Ja näin tehtiin.

Kiidettiin siis hirmu kyytiä Nagoyaan asti, jossa hypättiin ulos ja alettiin miettimään, että mitäs nyt sitten? Aseman näytöllä luki, että juuri on lähdössä juna Takaymaan, joten ei kun äkkiä ovesta sisään ja matkaan. Junan hurjasta diesel-murinasta jo kuuli, että nyt ollaankin sitten lähdössä hiukan erilaisille reiteille. Sen verran ymmärrettiin Japanilaista kuulutusta, että matka-aika Takaymaan on yli 3 tuntia ...

Pääosin matkustuspäivä oli tämä keskiviikko, mutta ehdittiin sentään jotain muutakin.

Ja huhhuijaa! Eilinen kiipeily teki näköjään tehtävänsä ja melkoinen työ oli saada itsensä revittyä sängystä ylös. Lihakset aivan jumissa! :-)

Lähdettiin kuitenkin reporankana laahustamaan hotellilta kello 09 jälkeen kohti Kagoshiman asemaa ja kello 10 kiidettiin jo junassa kohti Osakaa. Ilma oli tänään hiukan sateinen ja sumuinen, joten ei olisi ollut mikään ...

... we casually strolled down the street, wearing our backpacks and raincoats, until we came to the big, beautiful Himeji castle. Despite the rain, there was still a large crowd of tourists, shielded by umbrellas of every color, negotiating their way through the castle grounds. As we had been bearing the weight of our backpacks for nearly 2 days now, we were delighted to find the storage lockers at the entrance. I was practically skipping up the hill towards the castle, I was so ...

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... Then we went to the Mosaic shopping plaza across the pier from our hotel. We had a beer outside with Debi and headed back to the hotel to meet up with the others for dinner. Oh, and we went into a photo booth and had some fun with digital pictures. I'll post that after scanning it in! Last night we went for a traditional Japanese "hot pot" meal called shabu shabu. We started with some appetizers, including tofu with a very interesting flavor and texture (right ...

At 5:46 on January 17th, 2005 Kobe was hit by the Great Hanshin Earthquake. (Otherwise known in the US as the Kobe Earthquake.) The quake lasted about 20 seconds and registered a 7.2 on the Richter scale. It was the biggest earthquake in Japan since the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923. It's estimated that there were about 6434 deaths from the earthquake, a rather low number in comparison with the Great Kanto earthquake which ...

... nicht gewöhnen werde ist meine "Toilette", untergebracht auf 0,8m * 0,8m. Seht euch einfach das Bild an. Ohne Olli und Sina und ihren Vater währe ich in der ersten Woche bestimmt hoffnungslos verloren gegangen. Am ersten Tag nach meiner Ankunft habe ich zusammen mit Olli, den ich aus den ich aus dem Pennerhotel gerettet hatte und auf meine Schlafcouch verfrachtet habe, von Sinas Vater eine kleine Stadtführung bekommen. Letztes ...

... out and about. I took a few snaps with my camera mobile. Kobe would be busy anyway due it getting closer to the festive period. However, it was even busier than that due to the Luminarie which has become a yearly tradition here that attracts people in their tens of thousands if not more.

... call, but he mentioned that he was allowed to take 1 day off on Friday to show me around his hometown and to have me over for dinner with his family. We spoke in half-Engllish, half-Japanese; his Engish was still very fluent. It was now dark, almost 10 PM. I had not eaten anything since I landed. I walked around town and somehow ended up in one of the best sushi restaurants I had ever gone to. Osaka so far lived up to its reputation. Let's see what lay in store tomorrow in Nara.

Week 14 (1.23 - 1.29.03) - This week I begin my first group kids class at a different branch, Shonai, which is much closer to my house so its cool with me. The kinder kids group (two 4 year olds and two 4 year olds) was as horrible as I had heard about. I mean, they're just being kids, but they're just too young to be taught English by a non0kids at shonai, karaoke shin, office sex, aboriginie -Japanese speaker...I mean, they don't even understand "Sit down" or ...