This was yesterday, today it was sunny but I was to check out the Events surrounding this date 1945 August 6th 0815 hrs. I was pretty harrowing and very factual unbiased citing views and politics and the technology of the A bomb. Later we see the effects and this is where it was quick for me to realise that for me it was wrong to drop this demon on this town of civilians, and albeit military objectives. It was wrong to drop this thing on anything anyone anywhere. War might be necessary to protect the freedom from evil as it does [View Full Entry]

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Well im in Hiroshima, got fed up being moved beds in Kyoto so decided to check out and get my Shinkansen in the evening after my final day doing the tourist thing. I visited this shrine which was essentially a wooded mountain and thousands of big orange gates, it was again something amazing. [View Full Entry]

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I'm here in a nice hostel, arrived yesterday quite late from Kyoto , another great Shinkanson experience. Its a J-Hoppers hostel and in a more traditional style. That means no shoes and non western toilets. I'm just about to go for a run round town, finally saw off my jet lag with some saki. In tradition you must not wear your shoes past the front area, and there are slippers available for the house areas an example being the toilet. This leads me on to the Japanese toilets, they are like a startrek toilet. They have a couple of jets for [View Full Entry]

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This city is amazing, a size able one but not on the scale of the massive Tokyo. It has so many temples I cannot see them all. It is easy to get around and im staying at a very cool hostel on the river and have met some good travelers. I just cannot stress how good some of my days have been, walking round the temples has been very pleasant indeed, getting old is good if it allows me to enjoy this sort of thing ? Last night was in this Brazilian bar with this French guy called alex who is [View Full Entry]

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The shinkansen is the bullet train the original and very cool, it must have been so ahead of the game when it first came out. It feels much faster than the TGV in france, after having done the high speed train in Spain I have now done all the fastest trains in the world, there is a faster nozomi class (company) shinkanssen which my 3 week ticket doesnt cover.. But anyway im in Kyoto and seems like I wasted half the day trying to find accomodation, since I didnt have the internet to make a booking before I arrived. Not so [View Full Entry]

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I awoke to the sound of the cleaner knocking on the door then opening it. It was good I had five minutes to pack and plan. I was meeting Tsutomu pronounced "storm" I had last seen him in London. I had pretty much wasted the morning only in terms of seeing Tokyo but some days have to be less busy and I caught up with some planning tasks, I had packed my big pack and only had to take round my valuable pack including laptop which I left at the front desk in the end. I met Storm at he A6 [View Full Entry]

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This area (Hakone) is full of hotels with onsen or special dedicated Onsen facilities. Its essentially the Japanese steam baths, and this is a jewel of the Japanese culture for me, this is a place to do business and relax in. You have to shower and clean 3 times before entering, and wash off the stool and pail that you use also, they are a very clean race the Japanese. They also like their water to remain so. The water is about 40 degrees C I think and it is good for me. I read my novel a bit which made [View Full Entry]

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I'm currently traveling in Japan, check out my blog here http://www.landed.at/calvin [View Full Entry]

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I was in a deep sleep as the cleaner woke me up, I needed to check out in 5 minutes and hadn't planned much past this point. Being a bit hungover too- yes marvellous. I'm awaiting meeting Tsutomu to chat to him as he will know Japan and am researching as I go, and there is still much to see in Tokyo, will have some time before flying out so I dont want to do it all this vist. So I was in one of those deep sleeps that comes from jetlag, and a little groggy from last night in Roppongi, [View Full Entry]

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I'm in my hotel lobby fighting the keyboard which keeps wanting to insert Japanese characters instead of western script my old sweetheart beer is keeping me awake.. A little big of fog over Paris meant that I am without my luggage. I hope it gets here soon. A long story but some fog created such delays that I have never heard of before 200 m visibility, didn't look so bad, missed onward flight but was placed on the following, of course not a great seat as on this flight I was the last to check in..only just made it and if [View Full Entry]

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