Matsumoto Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Bit of a crazy place this: an announcer says "Matsumotoooo! Matsumotooo! Matsumotooo!" every time a train pulls in. Quite sweet really but must drive the staff mad. Not much here though, just another castle here amid the mountains. It is the oldest wooden castle in Japan so one of the "big 4". One interesting feature is the hidden 3rd floor - n...

VOI ELÄMÄN KEVÄT! Nyt varoitus kaikille, jotka edes hiukan epäilevät, että saattaisi olla ahtaanpaikan kammoa tai jotain vastaavaa. Nimittäin ei ole sinun mestoja nämä kapselihotellit siinä tapauksessa, you have been warned! Minulla ei mitään tälläisiä ole aiemmin ollut, mutta muutaman kerran yöllä meinasin tulla tuosta boksin seinästä läpi, kun...

It's been two weeks since the last entry and I have several pictures and some amusing stories to tell you all, which will hopefully enlighten you with the real experience of living here. The last two work weeks were somewhat light at school, as we were wrapping up the last school year and we didn't have any group lessons and one day off for the ...

Today was a whirlwind. We were in a taxi at 8:45am to get to the train station. We then rode for 2 1/2 hours (In the AWESOME 1st class Green seats) from Tokyo to Matsumoto, which is in the provence of Nagano (Where the Olympics were held in the 80's). We were taken from the train station directly to the Concert Hall. Let me just say that this th...

It's Golden Week in Japan, and the weather is warm and beautiful. Yoko's down from Tokyo for the week, which we're spending together before she's off to Uzbekistan for her graduate's research. In light of that fact, we decided not to do anything too grueling activity-wise. So, rather than heading abroad (as I might otherwise prefer), we've been ...