Welpia Iyo
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Bathe with the public
... No, no... It's not what yer thinkin'! This room, as we find out later, has antiques under locked glass enclosures of "ancient" paraphernalia used in activities like tea service. One comment was that a single bowl had value equivalent to a Toyota automobile. Some very nice stuff. You can understand this I suppose given that the brochure chronicles 3,000 years of hot spring history. Also in the exhibition is the ...
Getting butt naked at a Japanese hot spring
... the town. My next stop would be one of the places I was most looking forward to for the entire holiday, a Japanese Onsen (hot spring). Visiting a hot spring in Japan is a must and the place I had chosen to visit was Dogo Onsen. A very old and very famous hot spring that has also, on occasion been visited by the Japanese royal family.
Matsuyama also has a really quaint old streetcar transportation system. The journey from the foot of the castle hill took about 30 mins to ...
Matsuyama Castle
... There we visited the castle. This castle is still in its original form, even it burned nearly down and also was bombed in the second world war.
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Kyoto - Matsuyama
... in Japan) rijst die het kasteel waard was. Een onderdeel van dit festival is een geweldig lantaarnparade op de rivier. Honderden zelfgemaakte lantaarns worden de rivier afgelaten, wat een bijzonder effect heeft in het donker.
Een andere positieve bijkomstigheid was het feit dat de Kenroku-en tuin vrij (als in kostenloos) te bezichtigen was. En wat een schitterende tuin bleek het te zijn. Helemaal wat je van een Japanse tuin verwacht. De plaatjes doen hier ...
The Ballad of [Jess] and Yoko [and Tristan]
So back in Hojo for only a few days and our dear friend Yoko stops by for tea. Turns out she needs help on her farm, putting socks on the oranges so that the birds don't eat them. So we thought, "sounds like fun!"
The next morning we headed out and met up with Yoko at her farm. It turned out to be a wonderful day. The weather was perfect, the orange fields were beautiful and Yoko's mother in law had ...
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