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Sharumu Inaba Hakuba-mura

5277 Hokujo Hakuba-mura, Kitaazumi-gun, Nagano Prefecture, Chubu, Japan

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Nothing new

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Not much new to report today. Our work today consisted of cleaning Joe's shed up. It is tougher than I thought, cleaning someone else's space. It snowed a lot last night, so I kept busy with shoveling.
Just finished baking a batch of carrot, apple, ginger muffins. The oven seemed to play nice ...

Piece of Cake

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This past Sunday, Adam and I had the day off. Sarah and Joe were having supper at their place and asked if we would make a dessert. Since we both like baking, we agreed to make something. Apparently Japanese people don't do a lot of baking and have these tiny table top ovens that double as microwaves.

We decided to make a chocolate cake, but because the heating elements fold down on top of the baking dish, the top of the ...

Zenko-ji and Snow Monkies

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... occurrance. Once we reached the onsen, we were in for a real surprise. Around 30 monkeys bathing in at once in the onsen! The monkeys come down from the mountain top to sit in an onsen specifically for them. An onsen is similar to the hot springs in Banff. This is the only place in the world where monkeys bath naturally in hot springs. Tourists crowded around snapping photos and the monkeys didn't even flinch. Enjoy the pictures and ...

Mochi Making

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Today we took part in day 1 of the Japanese New Year tradition of Mochi Making. Rice is steamed over an open fire and then pounded with a mallet in a hollowed out tree trunk until it is a smooth paste. They then roll it is balls and serve it either with crushed diakon and soya sauce or crushed soy bean. Adam tried his hand at the mallet swinging (hopefully the video works below). The festivities were based ...

Japanese New Year celebration

A travel blog entry by britadam

Its 12:23, Jan 1st 2012 right now. We just visited the Japanese shrines where the first event of the japanese New Year celebrations take place. We walked by at 11:30 expecting some kind of party to be taking place, but the place was deserted. We went back at 12:05 and it seems the whole town has shown up.

There is a little park with about six to eight shrines. It looks kind of like a small side street. People line up and pay their respects at ...

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