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1-38 Gion-cho, Hakata-ku Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Kyushu-Okinawa, Japan, 812-0038, 092/281-1045
Leaving Hiroshima today. All in all it was a good 2 days, and I could have possibly stretched it one futher day if had gone into all of the museums in the peace park, but really 2 days here was enough. We were free to take our time today. We left the Friendship Centre at the same time as the Finnish guy with the cryptic name, and we all hopped onto a stupidly crowded tram. After a 20 minute tram ride from hell we got to the Hiroshima JR station, and boarded the Shinkansen with the Finnish guy...
Fukuoka, Kyushu-Okinawa, Japan apatDecided to forgo the complimentary Japanese breakfast of coffee, rice balls and miso soup at the hotel. Instead we went for a walk to Canal City. Stopped at a Cafe World Beans for the morning coffee, which had not much interesting to report except good coffee and a giant motorised rotating globe in the middle of the table we sat at. Kept the girls quiet and amused while we drank our coffee anyway, which was welcome. Canal city is referred to by the marketing hype spat out by the Fukuoka offic...
Fukuoka, Kyushu-Okinawa, Japan apatToday at 4 pm I pulled into the station at Matsumoto and began the journey in my new home and city here in Japan. But, first let me backtrack.... Training this last week in Okayama was intense, fulfilling and actually a lot of fun. Five long days of enormous amounts of information, seminar after meeting after teaching demonstration and BAM, you're an English teacher. Well, not quite, but at least it's a start. Let me just say that it was the most thorough, organized and well-prepared training...
Matsumoto, Japan mskillernWell, we've had a full day in Fukuoka, which is a fantastic city, very cosmopolitan and seems to have a big international flavour to it. Finally managed to get Dee to eat some Japanese food when we went to a buffet restaurant at the top of a shopping tower recommended by Lonely Planet. Food was goooood and was great to have some local nosh for once! Had a good look around and met some random German guy in a bar who is into nano-tech and wanted lots of money so he could build Si the smallest c...
Fukuoka, Japan s_and_d... have a cold. You are also not supposed to blow your nose in public, although it's ok to sniffle. I wonder if there is an underclass of allergy sufferers who suffer from discrimination, or at least chronic nasal problems from fluid pressure ...
Saga, Kyushu-Okinawa, Japan rbfromnj... to try, but even after eating we knew it was fish but that was as far as it went!! One of the Japanese eating at the stall offered us some of his gyoza (little parcels of chicken) and we enjoyed it so much that we ordered some of our own - we weren't expecting about 10!!! Absolutely stuffed and it ended up being the most expensive meal in Japan, ironic as it was a street stall, but the ...
Fukuoka, Kyushu-Okinawa, Japan lesleyandrobNaja gesehen haben wir sie noch nicht. Wir haben nur bemerkt, das hier die Leute nicht so freundlich sind. Andi hält einer die Tür auf (wartet extra auf sie ne halbe minute) und erntet nichtmal ein Kopfnicken... nani sore????
Schön sind die Frauen hier auch nicht dafür gibts hier Hostclubs und das einen nach den anderen und das für beider Geschlechter....Mal schauen ob ich morgen ...
... bow when saying good-bye. The one which owes more respect will bow more and the other one will bow back. Sometimes they do so for 5 or 6 times each!
4. Beer dispensers in the street is the single best invention on earth
5. The sushi rotating plates is the 3rd best invention (sushi being 2nd)
5. Back left door of taxi opens and closes automatically
6. In toilets, there is a wash-hand basin on top of the flush
7. You gotta try an ...
15/07/2009 Fukuoka matsuri - Mijayima island
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Nos levantamos a las 4 de la manana para llegar a la calle en el distrito de Hakata donde se celebraba el festival (matsuri en japones).
El festival consistia en grupos de hombres cargando carrozas de diferentes dioses en los hombros y llevandolas a otro lugar de la ciudad, a 5km. Los dioses representados en las carrozas tenian caras de enfado y algunas echaban humo. La ultima carroza fue la mejor ...
... food court' of this shopping centre is no less than 23 different ramen outlets, it's ramen or nothing! Not being quite hungry, we stopped in one for a drink and some gzoya (Wagamama fan's heaven) and watched the locals come in, order, eat, and leave with alarming efficiency. After a quick trip back to the hotel to change (as it was getting a little cold after sunset), we set out for some drinks. Finding a simple bar was not easy - having spent the first few hours drinking ...
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