Okura Fukuoka

... br>The train trip between Saga and Karatsu was about a hour. There were a lot of students, in school uniforms, on the train, as well as an unusually high number of very elderly passengers. My guess is that this is a sign that this is a ...

... to try, but even after eating we knew it was fish but that was as far as it went!! One of the Japanese eating at the stall offered us some of his gyoza (little parcels of chicken) and we enjoyed it so much that we ordered some of our own - we weren't expecting about 10!!! Absolutely stuffed and it ended up being the most expensive meal in Japan, ironic as it was a street stall, but the ...

Naja gesehen haben wir sie noch nicht. Wir haben nur bemerkt, das hier die Leute nicht so freundlich sind. Andi hält einer die Tür auf (wartet extra auf sie ne halbe minute) und erntet nichtmal ein Kopfnicken... nani sore????
Schön sind die Frauen hier auch nicht dafür gibts hier Hostclubs und das einen nach den anderen und das für beider Geschlechter....Mal schauen ob ich morgen ...

... bow when saying good-bye. The one which owes more respect will bow more and the other one will bow back. Sometimes they do so for 5 or 6 times each!
4. Beer dispensers in the street is the single best invention on earth
5. The sushi rotating plates is the 3rd best invention (sushi being 2nd)
5. Back left door of taxi opens and closes automatically
6. In toilets, there is a wash-hand basin on top of the flush
7. You gotta try an ...

... marchar para Hiroshima.

Isla de Miyajima
El hostal estaba en Mijayimaguchi - la entrada a la isla templo.
Mija: templo.
Yima: isla
Guchi: entrada
Teniamos que coger el ferry a la isla. El hostal esta convenientemente situado junto a la terminal. La hora de marea alta, cuando el torii esta flotando en el mar era a las dos de la tarde y la marea baja a las ocho. Cuando llegamos era hora de marea alta, asi que nos hicimos las correspondientes fotos ...

Voila notre derniere etape au Japon, nous y sommes accueillis chaleureuseument par Hiro (une couchsurfeuse). Elle nous emmene avec elle dans une izakaya (pub japonnais) ou elle avait rdv avec des amis , representants de la communaute des profs d'anglais (britanniques et americains). Hiro est japonaise, elle a vecu en France, Australie, quelques mois a Oxford et a ...

... Decidiamo per par condicio di usare l'inglese, a parte quando non vogliamo farci capire da altre persone, in quel caso passiamo allo spagnolo / italiano. Salta fuori che, manco a farlo apposta, Victor sta per fare esattamente lo stesso mio itinerario, ovvero Corea del Sud, poi Cina per finire nel sud-est asiatico. Dopo due mesi ho trovato un vero e proprio compagno di viaggio. Credo sara' divertente, anche se mi preoccupa un pochino la partita di domenica (visto che ...

... me. One of them took pity on me and led me through the posh restaurant/bar to the best vantage point, where I got good views of the tower and the baseball stadium...for free! In the afternoon, I got the metro to Ohori-koen and had a pleasant walk around a huge lake, before going to the ruins of Fukuoka-jo where there were good views of the tower/hotel/stadium on the horizon, where I`d just come from. There was still a fair amount of ...

... House (the dormitories for foreigners) or spent more time in the K.L.I. cafeteria. I could've gone to people who were speaking English behind me in line at the corner store, or at another table in the restaurant I frequent. The people here are very different this time around and I can't say that they'd be very social even if I did go up to them (they haven't seemed social thus far), but I haven't tried as hard as I should have. I also wrote: "Loneliness is not the point ...

... Japan was completely honest it seemed. The train stations were clean and well signed out, and the frequency of trains passing through was high. Takamiya station was only three stations from the centre, or about an 8 minute trip. The trains looked like in the London tube. Unlike in Tokyo, where many people are said to have their eyes shut during the commute trips, in order to avoid having to look at what other people were doing ...