Nishiki-no-Yu Jimotoya Matsumoto

... la araña "Maman" de Louis Bourgeois.

En metro hasta "AKIHABARA"... pero aquí me gustaría hacer un inciso sobre el "Metro" de Tokyo. No voy a extenderme con su fecha de construcción ni datos numéricos... sino con la experiencia de entrar en uno de los medios de trasporte que raya casi la perfección... por detalles como estos:

• La limpieza y el cuidado es ...
  Japan, Japan sultanaviajes

... 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.

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...
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 ...

... the citys 1500 dollar a month is a average income by now...
and a lot of people do stupid jobs...in a fuelstation you have a lot of people for giving you the bills, filling your tank, wiping your windscreen...same same for building sites on the road ..always people with flags who say you what you can see yourself...even in supermarketparkingspaces you have guys stopping the pedestrians like we have it for small school children...
ah, and the screming guys outside the ...

From Obuse, we travelled further along the train line, into the mountains and to a place called Yudanaka. In the winter you can go skiing around here but obviously there was no snow whilst we were here, just a bit of rain. The reason we came here was to visit the snow monkeys. These monkeys are macaques which come down the valley and are partial to bathing in the natural onsen (hot springs). We got a bus ...

Alright, so I ended up getting roughly an hour of sleep, but I think it was less since I kept waking up. I let one of the Japanese kids sleep in my room since he was locked out and ended up on the couch and then trying to sleep in one of the classrooms. After Nanami and I stayed up talking all night, I really didn't want to sleep that much. It was a lot to digest, but it was a lot of fun. Breakfast came and went and then we had a final Q&A ...

... 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 ...

... die niet. Dus: als ie nog aan het sproeien is en je loopt weg, sproeit ie gewoon door en ziet het eruit alsof je in je broek geplast hebt. Heel vervelend! Tot slot slot Voor hen die X-factor kijken. Het symbool (de twee armen over elkaar in een kruis) is hier het nationale symbool van `uitverkocht/dat mag niet/nee/niet in orde`. Da`s duidelijke taal, WE LIKE. (waarom ze datzelfde x-symbool ook nog steeds met hun benen doen? geen flauw idee)

After Spencer sleeping all day in the TV room nursing a hangover and then me booking a hotel in the completely wrong area of Japan (although very very luxourious resulted in a 7.15am wake up call to get to Nagano) we made our way to the snow monkeys!

After getting our bus to literally the middle of nowhere, we then walked for 40 minutes along a beautiful snowy trail to where the monkey sanctuary is hidden in the snow. The path is covere din ...

... and ice-skating rink. We went through the rather disappointing museum and through to the ice skating rink to find the lights off and half the ice melted. It was then that we realised that the sign out the front in Japanese probably said the rink was closed due to maintenance.

We left M-Wave, had lunch and then had to wait ages for another ...