Ryokan Hamamatsu

... of a top and shorts). Walking around the menswear section, we found some hilarious t-shirts with random expressions in 'engrish'. Tomorrow we are back on the Shinkansen to Hamamatsu, where we will visit some family friends before returning to ...

... there at that time of night to warrant staying out in the cold!  When I handed him our ticket, he took one look at "Hamamatsu" and let out a surprised, "Erai!", at which all four of us burst out laughing. ["Erai" means impressive, or admirable, or in ...

Shock horror, our train to Hamamatsu was delayed by approximately ten minutes on the Sunday morning because of all the snow that had fallen overnight. I couldn't remember the last time that this had happened to me in Japan! We were calling in to have ...