Los Inn Kochi
2-4-8 Kitahonmachi Kochi, Kochi, Shikoku, 780-0056, Japan
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Ashleigh and I finally got some time off together and made a trip out to the city of Kochi, in the Kochi prefecture. This area is known for surfing, bonito (the fish), and dog fighting/wrestling. We took the bus 2.5 hours to the south side of Shikoku (the island we're living on) and found our small, inexpensive hotel room that was super close to …
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... Kagawa, just in order to try Sanuki udon noodle.
My bus arrived at Hariyamabashi at around 6 in the morning. Hariyamabashi was a bridge, but it didn't look like a bridge, because the river was very narrow and you couldn't see a bridge but its rails and poles. Just beside the bridge, there was another Hariyamabashi. It was a rebuilt bridge based on the imagination, looking like a historic bridge. Actually, the bridge is said to be one of the ...
Halloween extravaganza with a Japanese twist
... me with ample opportunities to be a good person. Months before this day I had signed up to assist in a local Halloween celebration. This celebration is one of a kind. An American living in a rural town in Southern Japan puts on the celebration. She expresses to me that this year there are more participants then any year before. I am still surprised Halloween has not taken Japan by storm. This country is ...
Happy rafting
Singing rooms for rent by the hour, late night noodle bars and the road wider than a car with wing mirrors still attached are some of the things that haven't quite made it up the Yoshino-gawa river into the Iya valley. Ancient vine bridges, outdoor riverside hot springs and white water rafting are definitely there, and we've tried them.
When the first question upon arrival at a guest house is "do you have enough food ...
Campsite, river, sun - perfect! What will we eat?
... work! There was a choice between pitching the tent on a wooden platform (who would do that? And besides our new tent was the wrong shape to fit) or pitching on the many gravel covered areas where the ground was hard and it was impossible to drive in a peg! I don't know what kind of camping the Japanese do, but it's different from my ideas!
Eventually we settled on the nicest pitch we could, and then set about exploring the really lovely bit of the campsite - the ...



