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Sengokubune Fukui

16-7-1 Gamocho Fukui, Fukui, Chubu, 910-3553, Japan

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Japan... when i was 17... 1975

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... about 3 of us) who had the nerve to get naked and go into the baths. Again, i wanted to experience the real thing! If you don't do what you'd normally not do, then how do you experience the 'real' thing?

I had been obsessed with Japan for a very long time. Ever since i was a kid, and my Explorers group (like Girl Guides) had a year focused on Japan. I learned so much, did projects on my own, just for interest's ...

Golden Buddha / Tojnbo / Tsuruga

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... belonged to a cult and I can not even describe the scale of the artifacts. The colors, the amount of gold (at least in colour), the creepy brainwashing music, everything! We expected any minute now to be taken away into a separate room with no escape to be converted. Oh, I forgot to mention, you where able to walk into the giant statue which had a staircase all ...

Beaches, scams, and (surpirse) more trains

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Today we woke up around 8 to catch a train to the beach in Fukui. I believe it's called sunset beach or something like that. It was one of the first small towns we've been to. The streets were nearly deserted as we wandered westward between the crowded houses. Standing guard on every corner are mirrors for seeing around the narrow hairpin turns that zigzag through the neighborhoods.
At the beach ...

Si continua

A travel blog entry by shantiman

Grande partenza da Sosogi sotto il diluvio , non potevo fare meglio non c` era niente di interessante per fermarsi poi mi stava piacendo anche guidare con la pioggia pero` dopo 8 ore mi era arrivata ai maroni di detto e di fatto .Bellissimo il monastero Zen d ...

Day 17 - Number 47

A travel blog entry by 1061kun

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... me. There was a big contrast in weather between Tokyo and Fukui, sun and blue skies vs. cloud and snow. There was 6 inches of snow in Fukui which made the view out the window of train beautiful. Fukui is another small prefecture on the Japan Sea and it is just north of Kyoto. Fukui is famous for Echizen crab and that what we were looking for for lunch. Unfortunately, we couldn't find anyplace that specialized in crab so we settled ...