Nikko Kochi Asahi Royal

Luckily for us we were invited by Vicky, one of the head JETs in Matsuyama, to an event that would turn out to be one of the best experiences of my life: hiking to the top of Mount Ishizuchi. Ishizuchi is the highest mountain on Shikoku as well as in all of western Japan. It is an impressively jagged horn shapped mountain surrounded by beautiful forested mountains. The mountain is actually more of a ridge and at its highest peak is 1982m high ( which also happens to be ...

... so I'm hoping to pull them off the card when I get back home at a CVS or something with a dedicated photo machine. Either way, I arrived in Kochi to the rain, and had literally 2 things on my list of things to see in the city--the castle (one of the originals in Japan) and the market. Sadly the latter was basically non existent due to weather and the castle, while nice was rather dreary during the day. However, there was a night ...

... mentre fuori diluviava. E prima di arrivare li sono stata in un onsen con vasca all'aperto vista fiume, e pioggia. Un tantino stile decadente e malinconico come panorama, ma bellissimo. Ora sono diretta a Muroto misaki, il capo a sud di Shikoku. volo a prendere il treno. Baci a tutti!

Primo traghetto che personalmente a me da una particolare libidine caricarci la moto e navigare per mare ogni tanto. Fiondo nell' isola di Shikoku , l' isola di un pellegrinaggio Zen da 1500 km attraverso 88 templi . Io la taglio a meta' naturalmente per montagne e dormo a Kochi altra citta' di mare e naruralmente si cena a base di sushi freschissimo . Sto viaggiando un po in fretta un mio amico a Shizuoka mi ha invitato ad andare ad Iwata a visitare la fabbrica della Yamaha .Potevo dire di no?

... tokushima prefecture taking in the beautiful country side smack dab in the middle of japan's 'leaf changing season.' it was beautiful! (the scenery, the weather, the leaves, the company, the experience, and the memories!) but i'll let the pictures tell the rest!

... labour and a number of American prisoner of war soldiers who were not known to be in the area.They burn a flame at the site and it is supposed to be extinguished when the last nuclear device is destroyed. I guess unfortunately it might as well be an eternal flame.From Hiroshima I bulleted my way to Okayama.

... how they all managed to stay afloat because there weren't that many tourists there. I got my answer when I actually went to buy something from one of the shacks. The little old lady behind the counter tried to force me into buying a Hello Kitty cheesecake as well. I politely declined but I doubt that everyone else would have the heart to do the same. Miyajima is really famous for its floating tori, a Shinto shrine gate which stands in the sea. It's one of the ...

... one is on wheels, and the other is carried by a lot of people underneath it. Both are elaborately carved, heavy, and really big. They're also surrounded by drunken men dragging them thru the streets. We parked the car after we'd found where a bunch of them were sitting still. There were apparently quite a few starting points, especially since this small town had to hold approximately 80 of these shrines. We parked in ...

... womens' roles, gobsmacking me a bit with "House is like ship, and I am captain." & "Two captains very bad I think." This is a difficult issue in Japan, & I'm unwilling to debate when he is the host, and he's the one speaking my language, but I try to make a gentle example by saying, "You and I can look at history and say I wish I could live in Shakespeare time, or as samurai, or maybe Egyptians." "All women I know say they would not want to ...

... Hotel 3-9-45 Kitahonmachi KOCHIE JAPAN Ph: 0888 839 603 _____________________________________ The soundtrack to this entry was an awesome band from Sydney Australia that we used to jump around to for endless hours at local venues in the late 80's early 90's. The band was The Splatterheads The album was 'Ink From a Mad Mans Pen' What a Splatterfest!