Tokyo Dai-Ichi Hotel Tsuruoka
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Bay of Many Islands
... have been named. Some based on ancient stories and others based on the shape. One is called "Niou-Jima" Roughly translate to "Deva King Island") because it looks like a man sitting on teh surface of the sea with a cap on his head and a cigarette in his mouth. One is named "Senkan-Jima" (or Money Island - ancient Japanese money was called "Senkan"). The stroy behind this name is that ...
Dewa Sanzen / Haguro-san
... Im Sommer muss es da echt schön sein, aber mit der Kälte der letzten Tage war die Lichtung natürlich schneebedeckt. Immerhin sprossen schon einige Blumen am Rande.
Zurück auf dem rechten Pfad schleppte ich mich noch die restlichen Stufen hoch. Somit hatte ich auch die längste Treppe Japans bezwungen (hatte ich schon erwähnt das alles in irgendeiner Form ein Superlativ ist?) Auf dem Gipfel besichtigte ...
Shirataka means white hawk.
... to these flavors, I absolutely appreciated the warmth, lightness and filling aspect of this breakfast. The room in the apartment smelled like hay. The traditional tatami mats were still green. When I went to the toilet for the first time in Japan, I thought I was taking off to the moon on a space shuttle. The seat was pre-heated, and a panel of buttons and lights blinking were at my disposition on both sides. I was curious but ...
Killin' time
... swingset, one junglegym, one slide, and a water fountain. We killed some time for a little while playing on the swings and crawling around on the Jungle gym, until someone rembered they baseball set we still had.
We quickly devised a game of 3 on 3. Rob, Tyler, and Lucas challenged Satoshi, Yusuke, and Garrett, while Aaron played all-time pitcher and I filled the role ...
Transfer in Shinjo
I had a 75 minute transfer in Shinjo where there just happened to be a festival at the train station today. They had tons of food stalls where I got some food, and one vendor who was cooking live fish on a stick gave me one for free! This was a fun transfer and broke up some of the monotony of riding the local trains ...