Nawaya Fukui
3-11-28 Chuo Fukui, Fukui, Chubu, 910-0006, Japan
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Hakusan Super Rindo Forest Road & Shirakawa-go
My mom and I went for a drive along the Hakusan Super Rindo Forest Road. In fact, because the toll for the road was quite expensive, I stayed away from the drive way for a long time. However, I heard that you could get a discount only in July and August, and that seemed to be a good chance to try it. Incidentally, the road is popular in the season of autumn leaf viewing, but the toll is not discounted rate.
This time, I rented a car at Gifu ...
Japan... when i was 17... 1975
... to sing 'Sakura' in Japanese (& i actually still remember it to this day)... i was obsessed with Japan! What a lucky girl i was to be able to experience Japan for real, a few years later!
Many more years later (just a few years ago), my son spent a year in Japan, going to school, when he was a teenager. Lucky boy! His siblings were quite jealous. That's him with a gaggle of Japanese school girls! :-) ------>
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Beaches, scams, and (surpirse) more trains
Today we woke up around 8 to catch a train to the beach in Fukui. I believe it's called sunset beach or something like that. It was one of the first small towns we've been to. The streets were nearly deserted as we wandered westward between the crowded houses. Standing guard on every corner are mirrors for seeing around the narrow hairpin turns that zigzag through the neighborhoods.
At the beach ...
Si continua
Grande partenza da Sosogi sotto il diluvio , non potevo fare meglio non c` era niente di interessante per fermarsi poi mi stava piacendo anche guidare con la pioggia pero` dopo 8 ore mi era arrivata ai maroni di detto e di fatto .Bellissimo il monastero Zen d ...
Day 17 - Number 47
... me. There was a big contrast in weather between Tokyo and Fukui, sun and blue skies vs. cloud and snow. There was 6 inches of snow in Fukui which made the view out the window of train beautiful. Fukui is another small prefecture on the Japan Sea and it is just north of Kyoto. Fukui is famous for Echizen crab and that what we were looking for for lunch. Unfortunately, we couldn't find anyplace that specialized in crab so we settled ...


