The Prince Karuizawa
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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 ...
Real Japanese experiences
Our time in Suzaka and at the zen temple has come to an end. We've spent such beautiful days here, helping out on a meaningful project, and, in return, having the opportunity to live in a stunning natural area and experiencing many traditional Japanese activities and rituals: the tea ceremony with all its details and formality; zazen meditation, with ...
Japanese country life
We are fully immersed in the life of this small Japanese town. Our hosts are great! We do some work in the mornings, either painting, weeding, or building a website, then in the afternoons we get to do some sightseeing, or witness traditional ceremonies such as the tea ceremony!
Yesterday it was our day off and we went to visit a famous snow monkey park, where monkeys enjoy bathing at an ...
Live from the Japanese Alps!
... Japanese lunch with our hosts, and on our way back we saw an animal on the road: at first I thought it was a dog, but as we got closer and it jumped ahead of us, we realised it was a monkey!!! We didn't see it anymore unfortunately. But here they say that when the monkeys can be seen, it's because they can feel that the rain is coming... hope that's not the ...
Mt Asama and onioshidashi
... through the lava flows of the 1783 eruption. perhaps not quite as striking as driving up Etna through lava flows that have barely cooled, but stunning none the less. We took the longer path around the park which was eerily quiet. Up on the slopes of the volcano was a derelict building which might have been a ski-lift station. Weirdly music seemed to be coming from it - The Last Night of the Proms. Asama-yama was smoking quietly above us. It ...
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