Shiroyamaso Kikuchi

... colorful sky-high portable shrines carried during the Hita Gion Festival and Kangien (a progressive educational institution that produced some of the famous personalities in Japanese history and was run by the ancestors of the current Oita governor).
The hotel itself looks out on to Mikuma River and offers a variety of plans for rest, relaxation, meals, and best of all the yakata-bune which is a traditional river boat with tatami mats and ...

... porque hay dias en que tienen que cerrar la subida al crater ya que las nubes de sulfuro hacen imposible el respirar. Por lo visto, su profundidad es de 8 kilometros. Alucinante.
Vimos un helicoptero pasar varias veces por encima del crater. No sabiamos si estaba patrullando la zona por razones de seguridad. La guia nos conto que hay turistas que pagan para ver el crater desde lo alto. Es la diferencia entre tener dinero y no tenerlo.
En el museo de Aso, al que ...

... verde brillante. Precioso.
Espero que manana haga un dia soleado para sacar buenas fotos de los alrededores.
A las 9 de la noche ya estabamos cenadas, duchadas y leyendo un libro (o escribiendo en el portatil).
Oh! Las almohadas tienen dentro lo que parecen al tacto pistachos. Nicola pensaba que eran habas, pero sonaban como pistachos. En el otro hostal en Kawaguchiko, las almohadas tenian dentro algo que parecia arroz. Total, como les sobra....

... is voor het maken van thee. Bovendien schijnt het water goed effect te hebben op het lichaam. In de tuin was ook mount Fuji en de Inari Shrine (zie eerdere Blog) nagebouwd. Leuk om te zien. Bovendien was dit de eerste keer dat we een Japanse tuin hebben gezien. Vooralsnog een korte Blog. We gaan nu even lekker uitrusten en strakjes een hapje eten in de stad en lekker van deze mooie zomeravond genieten.

... one active volcano in the area - with the idea that we'll walk around its crater before heading back down. Unfortunately - due to volcanic activity - the crater is not the safest place to be that day so we just decide to walk down from the top - about a 3 hour jaunt. Again the views are great and despite the snow storm the previous night, the day is warm and clear. We decided to try and take a short cut through the woods, lost our bearings ...

... practice. The Onsen is split into Male and Female baths - no swimming cossies, you go in the buff. The idea is that the baths are for soaking not for cleaning; you scrub yourself before rinsing off and getting in. As this is a small town with not many visitors this time of year, I was the only gaijin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijin in the place so naturally I was stared at the whole time, probably exacerbated by my ...

... February, was in full blossom. The smell was amazing, the tree blossom bright pink and white. It only took a couple of hours to walk around the grounds including the park, so I then headed into the city. Back into the shopping arcades, I wandered aimlessly. I don't really want to get stuck into the shops; already I've found so many things I want to buy but, even the exchange rate is a smidge better than it was, most things are still really expensive. For ...

Today I didn't have to go to school as it was a yasumi because of entrance exmas so i went to green land with reiko, makoto and kotchi. It was really fun. Went on so many rides including the longest rollercoaster in Japan. But it was dago samui and the kaze was particularly strong. but still tanoshi! Had hamburgers and fried potatoes (french fries) for ...

Had my first day at school today.. honto omoshiroi desu. Demo nihongo still not so good and it is soo cold here. I also learnt a new word today dago which is only used in kumamoto it means very.... One bad thing is that i had to do sport... which consisted of jogging... jackie and jogging do not mix as a consequnece of not doing sport for moe than 2 years.. i felt quite sick ...

... war in the 1940s, the Allies' decision to use a new technology was made without a crystal ball into the future. Einstein & Szilard wrote to Roosevelt urging Manhattan project for fear of Germany developing it first. I think the key question for us now, living in our now, is how do we proceed? These museums do an only ok job of mentioning Japanese aggression in the 30s & 40s. To its credit, Hiroshima museum mentions Nanking massacre and invasions of ...