Lodge Mai Minamiuonuma
5 Kabanosawa Minamiuonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Chubu, 949-6431, Japan
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Kusatsu Onsen Spa & Shinjuku Christmas Lights
... Nagoya leaving at eleven, but the bus didn't come until twelve. I was going to work on the next day and then I convinced that I would be late for work. In spite of the delay, however, the bus arrived at Toyoda-shi Station at 5:40 as scheduled. In fact, the bus was originally scheduled to kill plenty of time in a service area to adjust the time of arrival, because if it had arrived too early in the morning, even the first train would not have been available. So one-hour delay didn't ...
All-Japan Miss Body Fitness
... Again, my friend was not called to be in one of those groups.
Now, you might think there wasn't much for the audience to do in this type of competition, but not so. Audience members periodically shouted for the competitor they liked the best. The lines were always something like "Number One is good!" or "Number One's shoulder's are good!" Occasionally, people would just shout the number. Our little party had been split into two parts to sit in different areas of the ...
Road Trip
This weekend, I'm taking a road trip with some of the Japanese friends I've made. We're going to the Nagano area to watch one of them compete in the All-Japan Miss Body Fitness competition. It's run by Japan's bodybuilding federation. Miss Body Fitness is a fitness competition, where the contestants are judged on general athletic appearance, rather than straight body building. Judging people's bodies is not normally the type ...
Shibu Onsen
... tica no puede ser. Al salir de uno de los restaurantes cuando ya andábamos por la calle nos vino a buscar la dueña para regalarnos una manzana enorme. Apenas hay turistas y los pocos que hay son japoneses.
En la montaña está el Monkey Park, andando por caminos nevados en medio de los árboles se llega a unas piscinas de agua caliente naturales en medio de la nieve donde viven unos monos pequeños marrones.
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Snow Monkeys
... Mum and Dad enjoyed it, and the boys picked at it).
Next day we were up early to go see the Snow Monkeys. They are about 130 of them, which hang around a hot spring. As you can see from the pictures, they were quite tame and used to us tourists. It was really good seeing them up so close, and we could so empathise with ...


