Super Hotel Aomori

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... Beach which is right outside of our resort and also daily visits to the Chula-U hotsprings spa. It is ajacent to our resort so we can go there daily for free. I'll post pics as soon as I can find my camera usb cord! I hope I didn't forget it cause I can't find it!! LOL!

... s the fruit & veg section, dry goods, drinks, dried sea vegetable section, sushi section, prepared 'seal-meal' chill cabinet, self-serve slop-in-a-bowl section... The trolleys are really small. To compare this with last year's sojourn into a San Diego supermarket where the trolley just about requires its own postcode and the supermarket has an in-built Starbucks and fast-food kiosk provides an insight into the western obesity epidemic. Add up the ...

... and let me know that would be really cool    After the blossoms we walked around the city and visited a old fashioned dye shop and bought some souvenirs.  Aomeri is known for it's apples (fuji mostly) and they make all sorts of apple treats, wines and juices.  We got lots of free samples and I bought a bottle of Sakura Liqueur (made from the cherry blossoms in the park) and Apple wine.  I'm going ...

*just in case you missed it, I completed the 4-26 adventure... read that first! After taking one last bath, we grabbed a quick Viking breakfast, then headed back on to the bus. We hit Towada City, which had beautiful sculptures on a cherry tree lined street. It was cold, but not actively snowing, so we did a quick run down the street and back on the bus. The bronze horse sculptures are really delicately ...

... if this is a Japanese translation issue, but wet, cold and miserable as we were, this sent Chuck and I into peals of laughter. This made it very difficult to remain some level of composure as we toured his house, with reverent Japanese looking at their beloved writer, and all we could think about was "well, these stairs are steep enough, he could have tried pusing himself down these, that would have done the trick..." We are sick minded people, and need ...

... there we reached a small town where it is possible to visit Samurai houses (very touristic...). We stopped few days around Tazawa lake, the deapest in Japan (428m). We enjoyed the Onsen (hot springs) of the area and some hiking. After a nice rest around the lake we headed to Aomori to make our last stop in Tohoku. This town is not really nice as it was ...

Aomori est une ville neuve (car entierement detruite pendant la seconde guerre mondiale), logee dans dans une baie au nord de Honshu, avec un enorme pont suspendu et un immeuble ultra-moderne en forme de triangle equilateral, mouais... moderne quoi ! A quelques km au sud, un imposant massif (le Hakkoda-San) est repute pour la marche, le ski et ...

What better way to spen one's birthday than beach volleyball on a man-made 'beach' before a 800m swim in the ocean with 10 game friends to a turtle-shaped island in Mutsu Bay. Thankfully in reality Japan is so technologically primative the ubiquitous use of kerosine heaters that people in Least Developed Countries turn their noses up at, that fuel for fire-twirling is cheap and everywhere- even in mid-summer.

... sure it was, but the ***** of gulls discouraged us in the enjoyable cruising there. Still, the scenery was beautiful at least. Sendai had a Star festival on the same day, but it was not so good, compared to the Nebuta Festival. We happened to find a sauna house in the city and we were so lucky that the house was closed down on the next day. We got up a little bit earlier than we asked to be waken up at ...