Kobe Hostel

... farts (Matt's)we finally arrived in Tokyo, Narita airport at 9:15am local time. After a good nights sleep at the 'K's House' Hostel (Asakusa, Tokyo) which is excellent, we headed to Nikko and the 'Nikko Park Lodge' which has also been fantastic. We are ...

... a 10 min venture outside of town near a sake brewery... definitely had promise.  We snaked through some streets to Kobe Dear Backpackers Hostel.  We walked in and prayed.  Luckily they had 1 room left which happened to be a double ...

... and walking all over the city we were dear tired, but I had a welcome reception to attend. So Maran walked back to the hostel, while I mingled at the reception. After the reception I made my way back to the hostel and pretty much fell asleep right ...

I headed to Kobe with a guy I met at the youth hostel. We were in search of Sake and Kobe beef. Not for the first time, we both underestimated how far it was to walk to the Sake brewery and it took over 2 hours of walking through industrial areas and ...

... we at. Finally, even though we were all having a great time, decided we'd have to get moving if we were going to get to our hostel, by check-in ( which ended at 9pm ). We had all planned to come back after checking in, but by the time we got settled we ...

... for the price of getting to Arima with a taxi, but it was ridiculously expensive. Fortunately, earlier that evening a hostess at our hostel mentioned a local bath house, located within a 7-minute walk. So, we made our way back to the hostel and got the ...

In the final day in Kobe we finally got a chance to try the marvelous world-renowned Kobe beef! Mark (my co-supervisor) and a few more conference attendees headed to a nearby steak restaurant to try the beef. Maran, me and several guys from the ...

... the conference there was a banquet which me and Maran could attend. The venue was pretty interesting: a place called Kobe Kachoen, a giant greenhouse filled with tropical plants, flowers and various birds. Unfortunately most birds were asleep so late in ...

... . Back at the bottom we headed to the train station and back to Nara. Ate some falafel(3rd non-Japanese meal of the day) and now we are back in the hostel talking to some more lovely Japanese and Belgium people about trains.... will ...

... in the world here though. It had a nice, semi big city(1.2 million) laid back feel. That was really clsoe to my hostel(which was a ways from town). The following morning I went down the road to Hemji castle, which is the longest surviving castle in the ...

... to cobe half dead it was so ****** hard that ************ bags! i really want to get rid of it soon! kobe is a nice city near the sea and our small hostel is right by it though we didnt go either to the sea itself or the harbor we enjoyed the sea ...

... that it doesn't really matter if you get lost (but I managed not to get lost here! Yay!!!) Japan, Day 1, Kobe, Kyoto and Toijian Hostel We landed in Kobe today and after a long passport-checking and passport-getting and landing procedure we docked at ...

... to my arrival. So late on a Saturday night, I had to heave my beast around the main strip of the city asking every hotel, hostel or cardboard box I could find if they had any spare rooms. But none of them did. I almost admitted defeat, ready to pass out ...

... pull myself together as best as possible in our little sink! It wasnt so bad really. At least I wasnt too stinky anymore. Our hostel was only like 4 blocks from the longest suspension bridge in the world. We could kinda see it from our hostel. We head ...

... all had a sulk at the hostel (which was fixed the British way - with cups of tea and a bit of cake) but our hostel manager kindly gave us a restaurant recommendation, as well as an area named and subsequently trademarked by us as meat street.  We got ...

... no Japanese, it was tough! We got to Osaka and had to find an internet café to print out the confirmation for our hostel, yes I Christine Turoczi stayed in a hostel. We eventually figured out how to get there and it was about a twenty minute subway ...

... wandering around an area we'll just refer to as unsavory until i found a Mr. Donut where i took refuge with a cupcake. back to the hostel in time to get my last load of laundry of the trip done and formulate a plan of attack for the BIG ...

... to Kyoto. There were 9 of us: Julie, Erin, Lindsay, Amy, Keith, Ashish, Dan, Alan, and me. We found a great little hostel (giant bunk rooms separated by gender), dropped off our packs and headed out into the city. We met up with one of Alan's friends ...

... in Tarama  - which is a suburb of Kobe about 25 minutes away from the city centre by fast train, and we found our hostel quite easily. Unfortunately it is a rather drab place  - like in Nara - with lots of rules. Our room is private but only ...

... in a building (think of going up to a Coca Cola vending machine, putting your money in, and poof, out comes our car). The hostel we stayed at was really high tech, with LCD's on the walls, and full kitchen and bathrooms included. Karaoke bars were all ...

... that I would get it again, but it was food. The next day I was supposed to go to Kyoto and meet up with friends in a hostel, but when I called they said that they had no record of them. That's when I last posted and checked my e-mail.. I didn't hear ...