 | Hello!!
2005-10-11, Osaka, Japan. By: xVx | | HI!!
so yes, I haven`t written a journal for a while!! so much has happened!! Well, I guess I will start this with a brief overview of whats been happening since christmas.
Christmas
So, chritmas i... |
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 | Catch up
2006-03-06, Sengendai, Japan. By: Quamquam | | The latest pictures are taken from Hilary's camera so a big thank you for that! |
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 | BYO Barbie
2006-02-28, Kushiro, Japan. By: vorn | | Have heard a couple of stories about difficulties Japanese people have had with Australian slang. Very funny for me to hear about the shoe being on the other foot.
This Japanese guy was working in ... |
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| Diamond Dust
2006-02-28, Hokkaido, Japan. By: vorn | | Am leaving Sunday and will be back on the move once more. Will really miss Kushiro, the people (some of them) and the beautiful afternoon sun.
It is not the prettiest of places, but it grows on you. ... |
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 | In Praise of Ramen
2006-02-14, Nakatsu, Japan. By: Marcus | | Greetings once again, faithful readers!
i write today in a thankful mood. why, you might ask? i shall tell you. i write this just having returned from what may be the greatest dining experience in a... |
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 | One In Two Million
2006-02-11, Sapporo, Japan. By: vorn | | To be one of the estimated two million visitors to the 57th Annual Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (Snow Festival) was very high up on my ‘to do’ list when I arrived in Hokkaido last march. That list was not ver... |
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 | Top 5 of Japan
2006-02-08, Tokyo, Japan. By: alexandem | | Whenever anybody left the country from our little Sangubashi community, we could perform the “Top 5 of Japan”. It seams like only yesterday I was performing these quizzes on Zoren and Matthew, last n... |
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 | Sayonara, Japan!!!
2006-01-31, Kobe, Japan. By: kev_jen | | After being snowed out of the volcano experience in Aso, we moved on to the wonderful city of Kyoto. Ironically the two biggest tourist cities in Japan share the same set of letters Tokyo and Kyoto).... |
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| The best snow in the world
2006-01-28, Niigata, Japan. By: alexandem | | If there was one thing I had to do before I left this country, it was to enjoy what many believe to be the best snow in the world.
First the transport to the feilds are amazing... I caught a Shinke... |
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 | Jumpstart Irony
2006-01-28, Hokkaido, Japan. By: vorn | | Went up to Sounkyo on the weekend, a sleepy spa town about 4 hours away. We went up to see a frozen waterfall and do some skiing, and accidentally arrived for opening night of the local Ice festival. ... |
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| An Onsen. At last!
2006-01-24, Nakatsu, Japan. By: Marcus | | Greetings once again, my friends. thrill as i tell you of the completing of yet another of my Goals for Japan.
i had heard of the existance of an onsen on the slopes of Mt. Hachimen, but had no real... |
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 | My dreams have been answered
2006-01-22, Tokyo, Japan. By: alexandem | | I’ve been waiting for this moment since I stepped into the country, all three times. No, it’s not the advent of Godzilla, nor does it have anything to do with a gigantic earthquake destroying all of t... |
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| A Day to be Remembered
2006-01-22, Nakatsu, Japan. By: Marcus | | Fear not by my long time between postings that i have abandoned you, my faithful readers. it's simply that i have decided to post here only when i have something of interest worth posting. sadly, apar... |
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| Masa, Aki and the Khaosan Experience
2005-01-10, Tokyo, Japan. By: kev_jen | | While in Tokyo we spent a considerable amount of time at the beautiful Khaosan Guesthouse, located in Asakusa. We had spent a couple of days there surrounding the aforementioned Karaoke incident befo... |
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| January Grand Sumo Tournament
2005-01-09, Tokyo, Japan. By: kev_jen | | After our brush with musical destiny we moved on to experience another Japanese tradition. Of course what could be more Japanese than SUMO Wrestling?!?! Luckily we just happened to be in the right p... |
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 | Western Honshu Trip
2006-01-01, Western Honshu, Japan. By: alexandem | | 29/12/05 DAY 1 – Tokyo to Osaka
Weather condition: Dreaming of Snow
OSAKA
Amerika Mura: A very scary and disturbing part of Osaka, “little America”. The streets are lined with shops sporting FUBU... |
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| Encore, Encore!!!!
2005-01-09, Tokyo, Japan. By: kev_jen | | After a day of sightseeing in Asakusa we decided that we could use a drink. You`d be amazed at how hard it is to find a bar when you can`t read the signs. Either way we wound up walking for a little... |
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| Konichiwa from Japan
2005-01-06, Tokyo, Japan. By: kev_jen | | You guessed it, we have finally arrived in Japan! Well the truth is, we arrived on Dec. 30th, but we couldn`t find an internet cafe that wouldn`t break our budget.
Our first few days here were ver... |
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 | Powder Minuses
2006-01-05, Niseko, Japan. By: vorn | | Mate Pete came over from the UK and we got ourselves a fair bit of the white stuff, well over a metre fell in the short time we were there. Not constantly, but it tried. Streets in the village resembl... |
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 | Rites Of Passage
2005-12-17, Kushiro, Japan. By: vorn | | And so it was, last year, in the company of a heap of japanese kids, wearing what seemed like a smelly old set of grandpa pyjamas I passed into middle age with a succession of rambunctiously vociferat... |
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 | NYE and a Temple in Narita
2006-01-02, Narita, Japan. By: pedrofletc | | We were left to fend for ourselves in Tokyo for New Years Eve and so with no fixed ideas we got dressed up as best we could and went out to wander Shinjuku and Shibuya nightlife districts. We took our... |
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 | Tokyo
2005-12-30, Tokyo, Japan. By: pedrofletc | | Hi everybody,
V and I are in Tokyo now, and heading on to Bristol on the 1st.
On the first day we arrived at a reasonable hour of the morning, took a train to a station near Emi`s place where s... |
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| New years
2005-12-31, Nakatsu, Japan. By: Marcus | | Greetings once more in my last post...
for 2005.
i thought i'd present the details of my acivities on New Years Eve and today. i'm actually writing this on January first, but apparently this site do... |
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 | Just Another Day With Colonel Sanders
2005-12-27, Hokkaido, Japan. By: vorn | | Tis fair fresh now and that will remain the case until I leave. Bit a snow but much less than the west as there is a big mountain range running down the middle of Hokkaido to slow down the Siberian wi... |
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