Okura 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 ...

... has helped provide "free rental of therapy robots to nursing homes for the elderly," specifically, Paro, a lovable, consoling seal-type robot.<br><br>-----<br>ROBOTS AHEAD!...<br><br>I made it to the TNC TV Building next to the Marizon Fukuoka Tower before 4 pm. Still looking for the place, thinking it was a couple streets south, I looked up to see a large sign that displayed four futuristic-looking humanoid robots. It read simply, "ROBOSQUARE www.robotsquare.org." I had arrived ...

... the islands separated and the strait was formed. Think Red Sea. Mojiko had strategic military importance, so it was the focus of several wars and fights over whether this part of Japan would be open to foreign trade (a theme that also affected Nagasaki and Kagoshima). Mojiko had an important role in the banana import market, which anyone who has seen melons selling for $10 to $50 in Japan's supermarkets will ...

... get off the train by looking at your watch rather than the station signs! Last week, when a typhoon hit, there were unavaoidable weather delays--my train was 35 minutes late. That would be just a normal day for most U.S. train systems. This was a typhoon that was the main story on the tv news! <br><br>And nobody takes cell phone calls while in their seats. If you get a cell phone call, or need to make one, you head for the area between ...

... 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 ...

... you have never been to Japan, the Japanese people try to be very helpful to foreigners, but you must have patience and must talk really slow. If you do not pronounce a Japanese phrase 100 percent correctly, they will not understand you either. I had no luck with the help I wanted, because of the language barrier. Also I have no patience haha. I then decided it was getting late, or what I thought was late (10pm), so I ...

... a smooth run....check out Lao girls site)) Japan is only 3 hours on a hydrofoil boat called the 'Beetle'. I'd passed through Tokyo's airport several times, but I'd never spent any quality time there. Since this trip was on the Boss's dime and I had a few days off, I figured to make the most of it. I arrived in the afternoon and made my way to the Embassy without any hassles. I was the 3rd or 4th person in line and the first guy seemed to be having problems ...

... as I had imagined it would be. There wasn`t really that much in the way of tourist sights to see in Fukoaka but like any big Japanese city half the fun is just walking around and seeing what weird stuff you can see. Fukoaka is also famous for Ramen a kind of pork noodle soup which is really good and I was quite happy to sample that in it`s home town. Afte seeing Fukuoka, the following day I went on a day trip to Nagasaki with Ross and Ray. I`ve written about this in a ...

... their reasons. He also mentioned out of the blue that he had left money with someone in the United States sometime recently and that the money had disappeared with the person denying ever having it. I honestly don't know the circumstances of what happened to him just before he came out here. He wouldn't elaborate when I asked. But he became really furious while thinking about it. I gave him his space and he composed himself in time. Josh is a very outgoing guy who has the tendency ...

... Korean dance performance. It was called the Asian Carnival Dance, but actually it was only Japanese performing various dances, as far as we could tell. My friend explained that Japanese had gone crazy about everything Korean especially Korean soft dance. I was sad not to have my camera along with me on that day. 8 hours later, we split, and I went back home, but my host family had not yet returned from their trip yet.