Hotel Somanoya Matsumoto

Hot Springs surprise!

... shop in town and we stopped in to have a look around. All of their furniture was made by hand of beautiful wood. Some very ornate and traditional looking but much of it was what I can only describe as Japan meets Frank Lloyd Wright. Absolutely beautiful – and WOW! The prices were out of this world!

After leaving the city we drove to a sky resort area there was some snow on the ground but the ski season hasn't started yet. We turned to a hot springs spa (called an ...

Takayama, Chubu, Japan mark820

Castle sweetness

... cookies, a fondue machine, a soft serve ice cream machine, soda fountain, and espresso machine. They even had these sugar syrup that you can slather your dessert if you felt that it wasn't sweet enough. They also had some pasta, soups, and sandwiches if you wanted some kind of real food. At first I thought I was in heaven. But after tasting some of the cakes, I thought that they were really bland. I was expecting yellow cake but ...

Matsumoto, Chubu, Japan fxdacat

SULTANA VIAJES MÉXICO > JAPON > VIAJES A JAPON

... Arroz + Curry" pero puedes elegir:

• Paso 1: Con ternera, cerdo o picadillo
  
  
• Paso 2: Cantidad de arroz (200, 300, 400, 500 o 600 gramos)
  
  
• Paso 3: Grado de picante...Suave, normal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 a10.

Bueno... pues es en este paso 3 donde no debes equivocarte y ser consciente de que los muñequitos situados en la carta junto a cada nivel lloran y se ...

Japan, Japan sultanaviajes

Mountain living, onsens and legedary Hida beef!

... when cooked a unique melty experience. Yes i am raving but i'm serious, it was that good and if anything, i've never tasted anything like it. Go gastro-tourism!

The next day was our day of hardcore sightseeing which included going to see the traditional folk village which has reconstructions of various traditional houses, and examples of traditional art such as exceptional woodcutting, in a beautiful country setting. Also on the list were: the old style ...

Takayama, Chubu, Japan ditzyali

Night in Matsumoto

Settling in in Matsumoto. Spent about 4 1/2 hours on trains today, slow one from Nikko to Utsunomiya, a shinkansen to Omiya, another shinkansen to Nagano, then another slow train to Matsumoto. Signs of civilization at the Matsumoto station - a Starbucks!

Hoping that I can find the castle tomorrow. The ryokan has bicycles to lend, so I'm going to try and ...

Matsumoto, Chubu, Japan jbossert

Nagano - Gefangen im Land des Bären

... das ganze.
Die Maki v**kaufen sie hi** im Sup**markt in ganzen Rollen.. .sozusagen zum selbstzuschneiden.

Heute haben wir uns** Bento gepackt und sind auf den **stbesten B**g (es ist d** Omine-yama gewesen) in Nagano gestiegen. So welchen Weg nehmen wir, als sich d** Weg teilte - die 1.3km od** die 1.8km ?? Andi entschied die 1.3 km - nicht ganz so hoch, weil mir ja sonst die puste ausgeht... jaja. D** Weg war sup**steil und eh** v ...

佐久平, Japan linara

Debut du voyage au Japon

... les restaurants. En fait, les retardataires ferment a 7h maximum. J'ai donc pris un peu de temps pour vous ecrire parce que dans les autres villes, je ne suis pas certaine que j'aurai autant de temps de disponible.

Nous habitons dans un ryokan mais rien a voir avec le Motonago de Kyoto. Nous devons partager la douche et le bain....comme dans un gym. Moyen mais bon, il fait assez chaud, je ne passerai pas 2 jours ...

Takayama, Chubu, Japan eloise75

Sarubobos and Sake Tastings

... however, was very nice and friendly, although he didn’t speak a lick of English. Paid up front and he showed us to our room. Nice, 6-tatami mat room. Communal, but separate bathrooms and shared shower room. We drank our tea and ate our cookies and waited for supper.

Turned out we were the only guests eating supper that night. There was an English(?) family staying there as well, but they opted to go ...

Takayama, Chubu, Japan chrisfite

english ...big in japan...

so i am in matsumoto, out of the last 7 nights i spend 6 on parkbenches, the last time i took public transport was 8 days ago and suddenly i have a lot to write about...
First, a night in a youthhostel in JP sets you back around 35 to 40 dollar per night...nothing included, except the privilege to check in after 4 pm and leave before nine...ah...and at 9 pm they lock you in...thanks, then i prefer to sleep in my sleepingbag in a park,more fun, mmore adventure, more cheap....

Matsumoto, Chubu, Japan asci

Hot springs, tea tricks and another year older...

... more and more how to effectively teach English. We are moving into the new school year tomorrow (Japan's school year runs from April through March, with various vacation periods in Summer, Winter and Spring) and I'll be teaching about half new students with the others being carry-overs from the month I just taught. I guess I'm looking forward to starting my own thing and not continuing what the outgoing teacher had been doing. I get to start fresh ...

Matsumoto, Japan mskillern