Tsu Miyako Hotel

Note. This is not a blog about my hometown, Taketoyo, or my travel experience, but just an rankings of best tourist spots I visited around Nagoya and a consideration on typical boring sites.The best attractions I have visited in my neighbourhood are as below.
("Neighbourhood" here means the area for one day excursion from Nagoya.)

1. Kumanokodo Pilgrimage Routes (Owase, Mie)
2. Magome & Tsumago (Gifu ...

... tego dnia, wrażeń było tyle, że nie wiadomo od czego zacząć.

Japończycy od samego początku dbają aby gości nie dopadła nuda, a dobra zabawa towarzyszyła im podczas całego wyścigu. Już przy wejściu (oczywiście oddzielną bramką, na czerwonym dywanie) zostaliśmy przywitani przez urodziwą japońską hostessę, która zaprowadziła nas korytarzem pod torem ...

We did the usual disembarkation and re-boarding to go through security in Nagoya. I threw the Japanese quarantine inspectors into a tizzy. I saw there was no line for the security checkpoint and didn't see them at the far end of where the line normally is, so I jumped the barrier and almost violated their quarantine. The decided I didn't have swine flu and let me through. I had only a few minutes between when I got to the gate and we started to board.

... canister meal On sitting at one resteraunt we ordered what looked like a broth on the menu. (pictures on the menu helped) only to be given a gas canister attached to a bunsen burner, a pot with some sort of liquid in it, some fresh vegetables and told to cook it ourselves. It was a good meal just very unexpected. bad tofu meal - al a carte Entering a traditional Japanese resteraunt in the grounds of a temple we thought we'd try ...

... moss, busily attended to by gardeners snipping and weeding meticulously. It cost 500JPY to visit this Temple and I probably didn't make the most of it, feeling too hot to hang around there for long. From here I walked the "Path of Philosophy", a quiet, shady little lane next to a river which eventually led to Jisyu-jinja Shrine, at least I think it did. I was hot and tired and just glanced at this place and took a couple of photos before hurrying along ...

... beaten, anywhere in the world. Viva la bici!

The strongest emotion I felt must have been when we went to Kennon's temple in Tokyo. I had never seen anything like it. As we got there, I was thinking about my mum, very very much. When I looked up at the centre of the temple, my heart just sank and then started beating super fast, I
couldn't move for a while. No church has ever made me feel that. (I don't think a church has ever made me feel anything ...

... we were to begin with. She seemed sad to see us go, and gave us a handful of sweets and a cheery bye bye, as we exchanged a few hand-waves and a lot of head nodding. She then started to point at me and started laughing hysterically and muttered something in Japanese, along with the words "Mickey Mouse". I have no idea. A... Love hotels are a peculiarly Japanese idea to solve a peculiarly Japanese problem. Since most Japanese houses are so small, and privacy is such a rare ...

... for the next year in a city with approx 160,000 ppl but most cities in Japan just roll into the next town or city so you get an ever spreading monolith of communities with the only distinction being council/government lines drawn up eons ago and ever changing. Too my delight i am squashed in between the semi-burbs like urban hysteria and quaint old rice paddy fields. An interesting blend but quite at home in the land of contrast. Too keep this short I will ...

... the map, but it blew by quickly. Near our stop, gazing out of the window at the bundles of stores and close-quarter houses, I could have sword I caught a glimpse of a huge, hideous demon's head rising up from behind a thick row of trees. The hell? Best to let it slide, I figured, as wild stories about giant devils jumping out at us would hardly instill confidence in those who were depending on me to formulate the daily itineraries. Before too long we found ourselves ...

... follow the walkway that meanders back into the mountain forest, past a towering pagoda surrounded by lush, dense foliage and natural growth, and on to the huge pond and waterfall. A platform beneath the waterfall was crowded with school kids making wishes, and washing their hands or drinking from the waters cascading from above. Additional fountains and pools afford you the same opportunity for cleansing without having to squeeze in between a bunch of teenagers flashing the peace sign ...