Okinowa, Japan

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Travel Blogs from Okinowa (721)

Heading South - To Nagasaki!, Nagasaki, Japan travel blog
Heading South - To Nagasaki!
Sep 9, 2007

Today I headed south of Kobe for the first time since coming to Japan. Very south in fact - off Honshu and into Kyushu to visit the first of the two A-Bomb cities on my itinerary: Nagasaki. At 6 hours, the trip down was a bit longer than I expected,& ...

A travel blog entry by chrisuk07
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Ten Years Later..., Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Ten Years Later...
May 8, 2008

Ten years later, we return to the place where our life as we know it began.  Fukuoka.  The city where we became engaged, and where our first baby was born.   It was like time travel back to our salad days.

A travel blog entry by sutiramisu
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"Danger, danger!", Kagoshima, Japan travel blog
"Danger, danger!"
Apr 20, 2007

... me slight cause for concern. Only in Japan! Thankfully the view at the top didn`t disappoint, overlooking Onami-no-ike (Japan`s largest crater lake) and in the distance, the other volcanoes that I would be visiting in the proceeding few hours...or so I ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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Buried alive..., Beppu, Japan travel blog
Buried alive...
Apr 28, 2007

... for a suna-yu (sand bath) but it was a bit too far to travel, and when I found out that Beppu was the other place in Japan where it was possible, there was no need anyway. So on Friday morning, I got the bus to the `Beppu Beach Sand Bath` where I was to ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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Forum Discussions on Okinowa (17)

Japan Starter Kit
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 09:24:35
... Kagoshima, the bayside Japanese counterpart to Naples, with the fitful volcanic peak of Sakurajima facing it across the water. Okinawa is the last of Japan's main regions. Like Hokkaidō, it was a late addition to the country and it maintains a ...
Living in Japan
Posted on Jan 1, 2004, 15:34:30
I lived/worked in Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan for two years, and taught school briefly in Nagoya, Honshu, Japan, and worked for 3 1/2 years in Okinawa. Albeit that it was what seems like a lifetime ago (arrived in 1955 in Hokkaido, taught school in 1957 ...
Japan travel on a budget
Posted on Jul 1, 2007, 17:10:47
Hi, I spent an incredible three months travelling from Hokkaido, in the north of Japan, to the southernmost islands, near Okinawa. It was part of a world trip, so, of course, I was on a tight budget. But I managed to spend less per day in Japan, than I ...
Ishigaki and Yaeyama
Posted on Jun 6, 2009, 05:40:13
... went bust. If you're in America you can make use of the fact that there are international flights direct to Naha, Okinawa (where all the US bases are). From there it's about a 1 hour flight to Ishigaki. Local expert....I'm actually becoming ...

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