Nishitetsu Grand Hotel Fukuoka

... all the stuff we didn't carry in backpacks for the last 8 months so here we are, unpacking and repacking boxes, and shifting our necessary items to suitcases to bring with us to Oman... which is, tomorrow! Yep, our flights have been booked and tomorrow we leave Japan to fly all the way to Muscat, where we're staying for a couple days until we do the short jump to Salalah our new home. <br><br>What is ...

... in various robot-related activities."<br>* become the "'Silicon Valley of Robotics' in Fukuoka City Japan"!<br><br>The institute holds "science and technology workshops, for school teachers who intend to incorporate robot building courses as a part of their schools science education courses." It's "a portal of knowledge and hands-on activities for the youth and individuals seeking information and an understanding" thru on-site and in-school workshops and demonstrations. And ...

WON'T YOU TAKE ME TO RETRO TOWN?*<br><br>Kitakyushu is the 11th(?) largest city in Japan, but, aside from Space World, it gets hardly a mention in my collection of guidebooks, maybe because it has heavy industry, including a large steel plant. Surfing the internet to discover something worth visiting in Kitakyushu, I happened to find a PDF of a guidemap for Retro Town Mojiko. I couldn't resist! Mojiko is literally at ...

... which is probably whiy it was so from from the nearest train staion. It was about a 1 1/2 hour walk from the Kami-Imari train station, which is barely a station--there are just four plastic chais, a few signs, and an unmarked path to a nearby street. Evidently, ...................MORE TO COME!!!!<br><br>A NOTE ON TRAIN ETIQUETTE<br><br>The most amazing thing about trains in Japan are that they are always on time. You can figure out when ...

... the other stuff was!! But glad we did as it was the best noodle soup we have had all trip. Then we decided to be brave and order some other little bits - Rob ordered some chicken skewers, which although this is what it was, we had no idea what part of the chicken it was from as it was hard and crunchy!!!! Lesley then pointed at a few things that could not be identified but thought it might be ...

Chaque vendredi, à l'école GenkiJacs, il y avait une soirée organisée; un souper, une sortie, etc... Mon premier vendredi, il y avait un souper au restaurant Kushiya Monogatari. 3000&#65509;pour environ 1h30 de souper à volonté (tabehoudai), boissons alcoolisé aussi à volonté (nomihoudai). Le Kushi Age est en fait Kushi : Brochette et Age : Friture. Donc nous pouvions manger à volonté des brochettes de toutes sortent, légumes, poisson, viandes autres et les faire frire nous même ...

... decisamente buoni, in piu' si trova un ristorante praticamente ad ogni angolo. Oddio, se siano veramente i migliori del Giappone non saprei; credo che i migliori poi siano in Cina, visto che i giapponesi hanno semplicemente rubato la ricetta o qualcosa del genere. La seconda, la vita notturna: essendo giovedi' non e' stata proprio entusiasmante; abbiamo trovato un quartiere stracolmo di bar e discoteche, ma non molta gente. Diciamo che c'erano piu' bar che persone! Oggi e ...

... blossom to be seen, but you could tell that it was coming off the trees because of the many petals on the floor... Bizarrely, in a country of 120 million inhabitants, I then bumped into the Norwegian guy I`d met in Kyoto! He was looking lost outside the train station, and I only happened to see him after taking a wrong turn (again) when exiting the subway. This kind of thing happened a lot in New Zealand, but for it to happen in Japan in ...

... in the wind', an analogy I borrowed from the Floating World of Buddhist philosophy. They use it to mean that a person has no control and nothing goes as a person wants it to, that he is a slave to the winds of happenstance and fate. There are other interpretations though, such as the Floating World means 'going along with an unsinkable disposition no matter what happens.' I shared this thought with him too, and it might have given him some small comfort. In the end though, we both ...

... not have any breakfast. Her mother had recommened a newly established restaurant that served washoku and yoshuku, the former being the term for Japanese food and the latter for European or western food. It was plain, yet very beautiful inside. The items in the menu were few, yet it had everything that I desired. A sushi plate. It also showed a chicken dish and a daily recommended dish, and a few other dishes. The sushi plate was not ...