Matsuyama City Hotel
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Bathe with the public
... No, no... It's not what yer thinkin'! This room, as we find out later, has antiques under locked glass enclosures of "ancient" paraphernalia used in activities like tea service. One comment was that a single bowl had value equivalent to a Toyota automobile. Some very nice stuff. You can understand this I suppose given that the brochure chronicles 3,000 years of hot spring history. Also in the exhibition is the ...
Getting butt naked at a Japanese hot spring
... area. Finally, before leaving, I was given a short tour of the emperor's private bathing facilities (unfortunately it was forbidden to take pictures).
From the onsen, I took a short walk to Ishteji temple but I have to admit I felt it was a bit of waste of time. The temple itself was a little disappointing and there didn't appear to be all that much to see (perhaps I just didn't look thoroughly enough) so I headed back to Dogo Station, stopping at a little shrine ...
Matsuyama Castle
Von Imabari ging es mit dem Zug los nach Matsuyama, was etwa 40min davon entfernt ist. Dort besuchten wir die Burg. Diese ist immer noch in ihrer Originalform erhalten, jedoch schon mal grösstenteils niedergebrannt und im zweiten Weltkrieg auch zerbombt.
From Imabari we took the train to Matsuyama which is about 40 ...
This is a Typhoon?
... rain into the late evening.
Mr. Suzuki is beginning to almost talk confidently about our chances to leave on time tomorrow. He also told me that he is quite impressed with how well-behaved our students are compared to his students. I told him I think its a matter of perspective, I am always impressed with how easily Japanese teachers interact with their students. However, I can honestly say I am impressed with how well our students are acting.
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Our first day touring together
... but high schools are run by the prefectural government). We visited with the students for about an hour before our host families came to return us to our home stays.
Finally, I do want to pass on a bit of news. It seems that there is a pretty big typhoon heading this way. The Niihama school administrators are a little worried. They think it might hit late Tuesday or early Wednesday. If it came in on Wednesday they might close the bridge that we'd need to use to ...