Matsumoto Richmond Hotel

TOKYO , JAPON<br><br>Amanece chispeando, cogemos nuestro miniparaguas y vamos caminando a la zona sur del parque de Ueno (entre las estaciones de Ueno y Ueno-Okachimachi) donde bajo las vías del tren se encuentra el "Mercado de Ameyoko". Su nombre deriva de "Ameya Yoko" que significa el callejón de los vendedores de dulces, con motivo de las manzanas dulces cubiertas de jarabe de azúcar que se vend ...

... some money on cab fare. Hopefully I can remember to ride on the left side of the street and the other vehicles remember to do the same. I'm also hoping that the rumors of English-speaking guides are true.<br><br>Adjusting my expectations... I had thought I'd zip through the castle and get to Kyoto early. Probably not. Everything takes longer than you think.

Sind seit gest**n in Sakudaira (ist in Nagano Nähe und scheinbar so unbedeutend, das ichs nur auf Japanisch gefunden hab... ), ab** die leute hi** haben einen riesige Einkaufsmall - JUSCO Hurra...<br>Gest**n haben wir uns wied** mit Futt** aufs Zimm** v**zogen, vorh** eben in Einkaufsmall Leck**eien eingekauft. Da gabs viel Zeugs zum Probi**en unt** and**em Maguro Sashimi... jaaa eigentlich will ich ja meinen Thunfisch v**brauch einschränken (vor allem d ...

... reminds me, last night i spend in a former ninja training vilage high in the mountains...<br>when i went to the next city, 3 kms sout, i met a nice family, wich sat down with me and eventually the maybe 50 year old woman invited me to stay in her house...and this more than once...after my experiences in china i said nothing binding, because they dont give a **** there about promises, concept of hounour unknown...they have the face-concept, something slightly different.<br>dont ...

... in the onsen and up the verges in their group, and there were lots of cute little babies. We stayed for a while taking photos, but soon got drenched by the rain so took shelter in an onsen lodge just across a bridge on the other side of the valley. There we had lunch- by then we hadnt eaten all day as we had the money fiasco to deal with in the morning, and had rushed to get our train and bus- so we ...

... they are willing to share information, it just takes time. The ride back was filled with American and Japanese chatter, as we had all become good friends at this point. Bonding over questions and beer is never a bad thing :) We will be meeting up with a bunch of the students this thursday and most of them are coming to Boston this summer, which is really nice. We will be able to show them our home, as they have graciously shown us theirs.

... and were able to ask them what they thought. We got some really interesting reactions, especially on the Nathan Book, which is fairly controversial. They didn't fully agree that kids were ridiculously crazy in the classroom, although there were plenty of incidences of it happening. After an amazing dinner, we once again broke out the alcohol ...

... without respite really irritate me completely and I came back on the bus rife with disappointment. Only gets worse when I found out that tomorrow's weather is much nicer and there's a festival going on, but you have to swallow the disappointment; as the Japanese might say, shigatanai (there's nothing you can do). Just a bad decision making process, though I blame partly the information office which was so, so off about the weather. Ended the night with a hot bath, some ...

... So good and I ate them ravenously and shamelessly like a street urchin in the station waiting room. Hoped the rain would lighten but arrived in Matsumoto to even more rain and having to drag my bag wet through the streets to the ryokan was not fun, to say the least. But the ryokan is quite nice--a typical Japanese style room with clean tatami, tea pot, and gleaming hard wood floors. And freezing in my room because the heat is always off until ...

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