Lasting Hotel Kushiro
3-3 Wakamatsu-cho Kushiro, Kushiro, Hokkaido, 085-0033, Japan
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Summer Vacation 2007-Rebun-to
... place I went. It was located in the local park and was way up on the bluff that overlooked the city. When the weather finally cleared 30-some hours later I was able to enjoy the view...It was free too. Something I haven't come to expect very often in Japan. This was Friday night. With the exception of maybe 2 hours the following day, when I went back to the ferry terminal and to a coffee shop, I spent the rest of the time in my tent; listening to the howling wind and ...
Golden Week 2007-Kyoto
... pace, stopping to take few photos whenever the lack of people would permit, and then back out to the front gate. I had my guidebook map in hand and I went walking around for a while, trying to find the start of this hike, but I could never seem to get what was actually on the ground to match up with what was in the book. I asked some traffic guard but he didn't know what the hell I was talking about so after about 20 minutes I just gave up and decided to head ...
HO, HO, HO. It's Santa-san!
... t object to the holiday circus on religious/moral grounds. While I do agree that the "true spirit of Christmas" is essentially lost and that human beings should strive to be nicer to each other, and the planet, on more than one day a year, I don't get my prayer books (or any books for that matter) in a bind over it. I'm not a religious man by any stretch of the imagination. It's more of a personal thing for me, in that I reject the consumer mentality and ...
Daisetsuzan National Park-Part 2.
... two; there's no vegetation up there at all. It's nothing but scree and rocks so there is nothing for the bears to eat. The Japanese hiker is undaunted by these realities though. Probably because they have had the "killer bear/use a bear bell all-the-time-every-single-time" mantra drilled into their head. You should see the warning signs for the bears. It's not just a picture of a bear or its head but a huge, life-like, snarling, spittle-dripping, image that you are confronted ...


