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Japan stop over
On our way to America we had an 11 hour stop over in Japan. The boys and I thought we'd get a visa for the day and go for a look around Japan. The speed train took us directly to the city from Narito airport which was roughly an hour away. The train ride was a bit expensive setting us back about $100 AUS each but very much worth the experience, not many people can say they have experienced sushi in ...
The oldest castle in Japan
We've spent one night in Matsumoto, at a nice little hostel that gave us bikes for free! So we explored Matsumoto, which is not very big and very "bike-friendly", and visited Matsumoto Castle. It is the oldest castle in Japan and one of the four National Treasures of Japan. It is definitely impressive! We went up to the sixth floor on very steep staircases, with a nice Japanese tour ...
Suwa lake and geyser
... and bags and found some tabi boots but sadly they weren't big enough for our friend's feet.
We carried on up the road and just as we were about to turn round we came across a vegetarian and vegan restaurant, Gen. As we couldn't read the menu we went for the set dish of the day which turned out to be a vegetable stew, rice with mushrooms, a tofu pattie and selected pickled veg. It was very warming, welcome and tasty!
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Matsumoto city and castle
... Howvwer we were grateful he told us it was fish stock as we didn't want bad tummies again.
Still raining, we found a steak and pasta restaurant and ordered dinner. Towards the end of dinner a gentleman came and asked us in impeccable English if he could help us in any way. He explained he was the septagarian owner and had been born upstairs. He was a real gent.
Still tipping down we made it back to the hotel.
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Tateyama National Park
... and were shocked to see it was 265 km away and we wouldn't be there till 9. This was strange as Tateyama and Matsumoto aren't that distance as the crow flies. Given it was dark and Japanese roads are not genrally lit, we went with the Sat Nav which took us on toll motorways up to the Sea of Japan (which we couldn't see as it was dark) and then down past Nagano to Matsumoto. Looking at the map we had done 5 sides of a hexagon. Still ...
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