Blogs from Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Asia - page 9

http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/nagoya/blog-149652.html のキャッシュです。 There are about 17 girls in the female dormitary, this is a picture of my room, I share with Chinki from Peking , China, we have bunk beds and we have our own kitchen with microawave and minimum cooking facilities. No oven so I cant bake any meat pies! But plenty of opportunity for instant noodles and omelettes, when I have time I will definetly make some bramboracky, potato pancakes! I heard its possible to purchase Czech Pilsen here? Havent found it yet, they sell ASAHI, Japanese beer of course, the guys here, 4 Americans and 1 Aussie, tell me its quite weak, but I wouldnt know not being a beer drinker. I did try some Japanese whiskey with a couple of French students, SUNTORY Japanese whiskey, 40%, not too bad. But I ... read more

http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/nagoya/blog-145323.html のキャッシュです。 Europe to Asia Fellow Foreign Students Welcome party for overseas exchange students.Chinese, Korean, Malaysian and me...Aussie.Arrived to Japan after 16hours on Swiss air, it was the best flight of my life, really easy flying and heaps of fun, I didnt sleep at all. I was sitting in the middle row, 2 Japanese business men and 1 Czech man. We talked,drank and talked. I tasted dried octopus for the first time which the Japs offered me, and Jakub had some mandarins from Albert... Swiss Airlines is a terrific carrier...Australian red wine and swiss chocalate... hmmm yummy stuff. I watched 2 movies, the inflight entertainment is second to none. Arrived to Tokyo where my friend Chiza Iimura San met me at Narita airport...0900am We went to Shimbayashi, Shibuya, Akihabara ( electric city) 6 floors and ... read more

Nabananosato is a tongue twister which takes a couple of days of saying to perfect and a few more to figure out. The information available over the internet is sketchy at the best, and there are more photos than details. It is around 25 kms from Nagoya where I stay and takes around 31 minutes by bus. There is a train route also, taking the Kintetsu line from Nagoya Station, you need to get down at Kuawana Station and take a taxi or bus from there. But bus is the most convenient as it drops you exactly in front of the place and picks you up again from the same. The cost is 850 Yen per head and there are an average of 2 buses every hour. Since it is situated near the Nagashima Water resort ... read more

Another pretty emotional morning as Nils and I decided to go to the Hiroshima museum again. We then took a taxi to hurry to the train station and get on together. He soon got off in Osaka. Said he was going to spend some relax time working on the piece he has to write on what he thinks of Japan for the newspaper and relaxing before he got back to work. I stayed on the train and got off once again in Nagoya to call Yuno twice and finally meet him at the station. I'd forgotten how much I liked hanging out with Yuno. For everyone who doesn't know yuno used to live in Indiana with an old ex-boyfriend of mine named Jake, and Jake's current girlfriend Jenny. Yuno lived in the US for about 2 ... read more

The Golden Week starts during the last week of April and goes on till early May. It starts from April 29 which is the greenery day and ends on May 5 which is the children’s day. Combined with weekends and kindly employers who give the remaining days of the week off it becomes a long set of holidays. The Japanese even have a word for it Renkyu, which means consecutive holidays. Earlier days people used to travel to their homes in the countryside, but with the progress of the Japanese economy record numbers travel abroad every year. So to make it easier for people to visit hometowns the holidays came consecutively giving enough time for people to spend with their families and travel back. However it is the best time to be in Japan. In between ... read more