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Japan stop over
On our way to America we had an 11 hour stop over in Japan. The boys and I thought we'd get a visa for the day and go for a look around Japan. The speed train took us directly to the city from Narito airport which was roughly an hour away. The train ride was a bit expensive setting us back about $100 AUS each but very much worth the experience, not many people can say they have experienced sushi in ...
The oldest castle in Japan
We've spent one night in Matsumoto, at a nice little hostel that gave us bikes for free! So we explored Matsumoto, which is not very big and very "bike-friendly", and visited Matsumoto Castle. It is the oldest castle in Japan and one of the four National Treasures of Japan. It is definitely impressive! We went up to the sixth floor on very steep staircases, with a nice Japanese tour ...
Suwa lake and geyser
... and bags and found some tabi boots but sadly they weren't big enough for our friend's feet.
We carried on up the road and just as we were about to turn round we came across a vegetarian and vegan restaurant, Gen. As we couldn't read the menu we went for the set dish of the day which turned out to be a vegetable stew, rice with mushrooms, a tofu pattie and selected pickled veg. It was very warming, welcome and tasty!
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Matsumoto city and castle
... and came across a shrine, Jyorinji, which had huge papier-mache dogs. Nearby was the karakuri clock which we photgraphed but didn't realised it opened and had figures in it, on the hour.
Nearer to our hotel we checked out the Station quarter that was crammed with small restaurants and dodgy hostess bars.
Then, it came on raining, and we headed back to our hotel for cover. We watched cyclists in the rain with ...
Tateyama National Park
... s valley, a geothermal field with fumaroles belching out gas. Since last year the amount of volcanic activity here has increased and the hiking route through the field is closed due to risk of poisoning, but we still could see and smell the fumes.
We completed the walk back around the lake and headed back down to the car.
About five o'clock and now going quickly dark, we plugged in the number of the hotel we are staying in ...
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