Okinawano Yado Andon Matsuokan
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The Good, The Bad and the Tugly
... so our only choice was to return to our “favourite” hostel and hope they had space.
Graeme and I jumped in a cab and away we went. The only trouble was that we had relied on Bryan and his GPS guidance system to get us there in the first place so we didn’t know how to direct the driver back to the hostel. In addition he spoke absolutely no English. Luckily, Graeme had remembered it was near a giant pachinko sign and we drove around until we ...
Finding Nemo
October 3-5, 2012
Catching a ferry at noon we left Miyajima and made our way to the Hiroshima airport for our flight to Okinawa. Like most cities the airport was a substantial distance from the city centre and it took us almost an hour to get there by bus. In total the journey from Miyajima to Naha , Okinawa involved a ferry, train, bus and plane and took 5 hours.
A monorail took us to the port area where we found our hostel stay ...
Sayonara, Japan!
This was our last full day in Japan. I had class via internet in the morning so we headed out for an early lunch after that. We ate at the local Italian restaurant where I had some amazing eggplant curry. (I know – it makes no sense that I ate Indian food at the Italian restaurant in Japan, but that is the way it was!) Then, we had some time to kill before Josh got off work. We went back to the American Village ...
Shisa, Bingata, and School Life
... Thankfully, Dibbie was able to help us decide what to order. (No, we have not yet mastered Japanese.) Shekar and Dibbie had the Okinawan delicacy, Taco Rice. I had traditional noodles and rice – served with sea grape salad. (I am starting to get the hang of using chopsticks and slurping noodles!) After we ate, we went into the village to see the history ...
Royalty
... boss who immediately, and politely, informed us, "Speak English only little but help." From him, we found out that we were still in Ginowin, needed to go to Okinawa City, we were lost and we needed to go "far far -here not ok". Armed with that less than helpful information and well wishes, we headed off. In Okinawa City, once again lost in the now dark city, we stopped at a convenience store. The clerk - not speaking ...