Sansuien Kochi

... trees, with two sturdy chains to hang on to and reasonably good footholds...most of the time ( there were a few somewhat smooth and even slippery bits ). The real "kowai" ( japanese for scary ) bit was yet to come. The climb across the jagged ridge from Misen to Tengudake at 1982m. Only Saffiya, Doug and I ended up climbing across for various reasons, including miscommunication. There is one more very small piece of chain leading down from the very stable and flat ...

... a demon fought a group of sword wielding priests. Guess who won... Was so tired and cold after the festival, I totally dropped at the hostel, which was the nicest I've stayed at so far. Very clean, very open and the proprietor is a sake enthusiast. He had a tasting session, which I decided not to do, but it seemed like fun. Hopefully will sleep deeply today because I've got a ton of train travel tomorrow. Tomorrow: Uchiko and Matsuyama -mike

... mentre fuori diluviava. E prima di arrivare li sono stata in un onsen con vasca all'aperto vista fiume, e pioggia. Un tantino stile decadente e malinconico come panorama, ma bellissimo. Ora sono diretta a Muroto misaki, il capo a sud di Shikoku. volo a prendere il treno. Baci a tutti!

Primo traghetto che personalmente a me da una particolare libidine caricarci la moto e navigare per mare ogni tanto. Fiondo nell' isola di Shikoku , l' isola di un pellegrinaggio Zen da 1500 km attraverso 88 templi . Io la taglio a meta' naturalmente per montagne e dormo a Kochi altra citta' di mare e naruralmente si cena a base di sushi freschissimo . Sto viaggiando un po in fretta un mio amico a Shizuoka mi ha invitato ad andare ad Iwata a visitare la fabbrica della Yamaha .Potevo dire di no?

... in her car and road trip our way to shikoku and around tokushima-ken. we had a blast of a weekend in her tinsy tiny japanese size car (think geo metro) listening to great music and snacking on amazingly delicious homemade trail mix as we snaked our way ...

... labour and a number of American prisoner of war soldiers who were not known to be in the area.They burn a flame at the site and it is supposed to be extinguished when the last nuclear device is destroyed. I guess unfortunately it might as well be an eternal flame.From Hiroshima I bulleted my way to Okayama.

Just returned from a two day trip to Hiroshima. As I don't want to run the risk of making this entry read like a piece entitled 'My Summer Holiday' written by a year 8 student (God, I don't miss correcting those!), I've broken my trip down into the five most memorable events. Grab a coffee, sit back and come on down to ye olde Hiroshima with me! 1. SHINKANSEN This is the iconic form of bullet train in Japan, and it was with great excitement that I took it to ...

... wanted to explore. Then we followed the shouts and screams of other Danjiri and then went following after those. The entire central area of the city of Saijo was completely closed. My guess is that everyone was out pulling a danjiri or taking picture of people pulling danjiri. The covered shopping arcade area was interesting in that we watched these 20 foot tall sculptures navigate their way thru a 20 foot tall arcade ...

... Taeko-san and her husband, and returned to the dizzying shinkansen of Honshu to head south. Stopped off for a few hours in Hiroshima to see the memorials. I'm now in Nagasaki, my final spot in Japan, and both cities are as you'd expect - modern normal places that look like all the other places I've seen, but thought-provoking. I'll try to post a brief entry about them and about byzantine slipper rules before leaving Japan. Cheers to you all.

... girls! Always one for an adventure I thought why not, maybe it was time for some Japanese porn! After a shower and bath I went to join everyone else in the open TV room. No porn here only news and Manga cartoons. Cool by me as that made me ore comfortable sitting with everyone else. After scanning the room I found there was a bar, upon ...