Tazawako Lakeside Hotel
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Living by the code
... in place, even if some had cleared them away. In some alleys we saw old ladies shovelling away snow and some fields stilled had melting piles of it.
People come to Kakunodate to see the streets of old samurai houses, and walking into that district was impossible to miss. Suddenly there were big gardens surrounding the houses, which themselves were well kept. Some of them were open to the public, so ...
Why Japan will Overcome this Crisis
... 2009. Again as part of the Ship for World Youth, I was one of twelve lucky Canadians given the opportunity to experience a home-stay visit with a local family in Morioka, capital city of Iwate Prefecture. The area along with Fukushima and Miyagi prefecture, from what I understand were some of the hardest areas hit.
While in Morioka, I had the chance to stay with the Ishigame family enjoying the humor of their two young boys Atsushi and ...
Kakunodate, Nyuto Onsen Hot Spring, Zuihoden
... told me to call the inn before I took a bus so that I could get a pick-up service of the inn at the bus stop Alpa Komakusa. The bus was scheduled to depart in a few minutes, so I made a call immediately and hop on the bus. At Alpa Komakusa, eight guests got on a minibus from the inn, but another five had to wait for the next one. On my way to the inn, I thought Nyuto Onsen was bona-fide hidden hot spring, because it was located deep in the snow-covered mountains ...
Encounter with a samurai
My day started with reading the congratulations of several Japanese companies and "friendship societies" in the Japanese Times to Austria at the occasion of the Austrian national day today. This seems to be common in Japan - I had already seen this for some other country (can't remember which) but still found this quite funny reading over my morning coffee :-) But in line with customs: happy Austria day to all my Austrian readers! After the difficulties yesterday ...
Thoughts on the Train
... I have not yet seen any livestock. One or two rice fields, yes, but not a single cow.
Beth commented on the peculiarity of the natural vegetation on the hillside. Along with the standard broadleaf trees that you would find across temperate Europe are interspersed species that we would only find in garden centers; ornamental specimens for experimental horticulturalists. This mixture of the everyday and the exotic gives a certain unreality to the ...
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