Reisenkaku Hotel Ekimae 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 ...

... telephone. Ten years ago this was hi-tech, state of the art stuff.<br><br>Built one year later, TMSUK-04 is a humanoid super-remote-controlled robot with a head, arms, and tracks. She sorta reminded me of Dot Matrix from the movie Spaceballs, but without legs.<br><br>I checked out some other display robots, including BANRYU, and Wall-E, then finally actually went inside the "square"...<br><br>-----<br>ROBOSQUARE FACILITY:<br><br>A group of young Japanese women were excitedly ...

... Mojiko also became an important terminal for both the railroad and cruise ships. So it's full of Meiji-era Western-style buidings, mostly built in grand style between 1910 and 1920. The view of the waterfront and the bridge across the strait is just beautiful. There's a nice little railroad museum, a couple of small shopping plazas, and a new hotel with a striking modern design. I think Mojiko deserves everybody's ...

KARATSU<br><br>There is next to nothing in Saga, but it's a convenient rail connection to the pottery towns I want to visit. There is also a recently-built Comfort Hotel right next to the train station, and the rooms are very pleasant and an excellent value. I took the train from Saga to Karatsu and back this afternoon. Karatsu is an old town with a long tradition of making rough, non-symmetrical pottery, some of which looks like it was ...

We stayed in Fukuoka for one night as we were getting the Beetle at 9am in the morning from the port here. We knew it was a bit of a party town and had many street stalls so went out in the evening for a wander. We walked for miles but ended up back at the first street stall we saw as it had a good view and seemed busy enough that it was ok to eat in!! Sat down and got noodles as we couldn't decide ...

... er notre propre estampe de signature avec notre nom écris en Kanjis (Katorin, KA: Graceful &#20339;, TO: Ten &#21313;, RIN: Bells &#37428;...) et par la suite nous pouvions nous exercer à l'art de la calligraphie, avec pinceaux et encre. Nous devions écrire le kanjis Rêve (yume &#22818;). La cérémonie de thé était à la fois très intéressante mais douloureuse pour les jambes non exercées d'étrangers comme nous qui doivent rester assis (à la manière japonaise bien sur) pendant pr ...

K and I had absolutely no intention of visiting Fukuoka during our 2.5-week tour of Japan but some unexpected but exciting news meant that a brief visit was absolutely essential. An email from home brought with it thrilling news that my second cousin, Peter Kimlin, had been selected to play for the Australian A rugby side in the Pacific Nations Cup match against Japan on Sunday June 8 which happened to be held here in Japan in the city of Fukuoka. It ...

... to say that I just wanted the back and sides tidying up. He did this, but then began cutting the hair on the top of my head as well...thankfully he wasn`t too scissor happy, and did a good job. I was bemused when he gave me a warm, damp towel at the end though (to dab my face with, for some reason), and he continued to stroke the hair off the front and back of my t-shirt even when I was paying, but overall I`d emerged from the barbers ...

... it's been what I've been focusing on." I thought that couldn't be the main reason for my wanting to go home. After all, I hadn't done much to try to change it, and I had gone through lonely stretches before and continued on my course. I thought about what was different about this time. Maybe I didn't much like Korea this time through. I know I didn't like the K.L.I. program. I didn't like not knowing the language and the helplessness that it caused with no Korean-American friends to ...

... Atsuko san to tell me what I was being asked to eat, I almost gulped. They were serving jelly fish, but as Atsuko had assured, it really was edible and would not sting. The jelly fish tentacles were safe and rather crispy. Served with white radish it tasted very crispy and rather interesting. Thereafter we were served a dish with some chicken, but since I was allergic to chicken, I had to pass over it. Very soon thereafter came the ...