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Asia » Japan » Ehime » Matsuyama April 13th 2015

Ein Besuch in einem traditionellen Ryokan mit Onsen - heißen japanischen Quellen zum Baden und Entspannen.... read more
Japanisches Frühstück
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Asia » Japan » Ehime » Matsuyama October 7th 2013

Monday was my last day trip from Takamatsu and I headed over to the west of Shikoku to Matsuyama. When I left the hotel it was bright and sunny. However, by the end of the 2 and a half hour train trip, dark clouds were rolling in. The trip itself was quite nice though because the train line runs along the north coast of Shikoku, sometimes right alongside the water. I grabbed a map from the tourist information centre in Matsuyama. The fellow there, who I think said he lived in Australia at some point, recommended I catch the streetcar (tram) to the entrance that has a cable car running halfway up the hill. I had been planning on walking there, but that sounded like a better idea. I jumped on what I thought was the ... read more
Chairlift and Cable Car
Long Way To the Top
Matsuyama Castle

Asia » Japan » Ehime » Ochi » Kamijima May 14th 2012

インターネットの発展に伴い、大きなchangsが取り上げている - いつもの始まり。オンラインショッピングは、すべてのコインに2つの面があるとして、それはあまりにも、二つのエッジを持っている繁栄の空気で撮影しています。一方で、それは利便性を提供しています。物事オンラインでも完了しています。我々は外出することなく、ほぼすべてを購入することができます。第二に、我々は、価格と機能を比較することができます。だから我々はだまされません。また、検索エンジンで、我々は簡単に価格帯のように、私達に適した何かを見つけることができ、様々な範囲、またはブランドの範囲です。このようなtory burch、ハンドバッグの品質を考慮かなり良いブランド、価格、実用性など。さらに、すべての店は信用を持っています。その一方で、それはまた、そのdismeritsを持っています。まず第一に、時間を浪費する。一部の人々は、彼らはまた、コンピュータを見つめ、長い時間の後に目に害を与える、コンピュータの前に座って一日を過ごしたこと、オンラインショッピングに取りつかれています。また、それらをしようとせず、チャンスは我々が美しく見えますが、実用的ではない何かを買うということです。我々は、サイズを品質を知らない。不完全なシステムでは、犯罪者のための新しい機会を作成します。 中でも、オンラインショッピングは私たちの生活の中で私たちの生活の中で当たり前になっています。それを使用する場合は、我々は、賢明でなければなりません。 http://www.tory-burch-japan.com/... read more

Asia » Japan » Ehime » Matsuyama April 17th 2011

Op de 10e dag zijn we naar Matsuyama gegaan. We deden dit per veerboot. Er zijn veel snellere boten, die binnen een uur op de plaats van bestemming zijn, maar onze boot was een van de tragere soort. De reis duurde 3 uur waardoor we in alle rust om ons heen konden kijken en ook nog een beetje konden bijkomen van de afgelopen dagen. Eenmaal aangekomen pakten we een bus en een tram om al vrij snel aan te komen bij ons hotel, welke zo'n beetje in het centrum van Matsuyama zat. Vanuit hier gingen we al vrij vlot met de groep aan de wandel om de belangrijkste punten van de stad te zien en ons te kunnen oriënteren. Patrick liet ons een tram-dagkaart kopen. Normaal is dit niet nodig, omdat je de kosten van de ... read more
Het kasteel
Kappa!
Lekker eten

Asia » Japan » Ehime » Matsuyama September 28th 2009

Konnichiwa, von Kyushu aus sind wir nach Hiroshima gefahren und haben von Natur auf Geschichte umgeschaltet. Mit Hiroshima verbindet jeder unmittelbar den Abwurf der ersten Atombombe 1945, und in der Tat steht Hiroshima ganz im Zeichen dieses furchtbaren Ereignisses. Das heisst aber nicht, dass die Stadt ein furchtbarer Ort waere und nur Truebsal geblasen wird. Tatsaechlich ist neben dem Gedenken Frieden das alles bestimmende Thema; das Beduerfnis nach Frieden ist in Hiroshima besonders gross, und es gibt viele Aktionen dazu. Von Hiroshima aus haben wir einen Ausflug auf die sehr huebsche huegelige kleine Insel Miya-jima gemacht. Auf dem Gelaende des bekanntesten Schreins hat gerade eine traditionelle Hochzeit einschliesslich traditioneller Tanzdarbietung stattgefunden. Nach dieser faszinierenden Darbietung haben wir die hoechste Erhebung erklommen und eine phantastische Aussicht u... read more
Taenzer im Schrein von Mija-jima
Eingangstor zum Schrein
Abendstimmung

Asia » Japan » Ehime » Uwajima April 20th 2009

April 12th Uwajima is pretty far down the coast in Ehime Prefecture and a fairly long journey from where I live in Kagawa, but I wanted to visit it for a long time. Since I decided to change jobs and move away from Shikoku I figured I should probably go before I left. The main purpose for the visit was to see Uwajima-jo (castle), one of the twelve original castles in Japan and supposedly a pretty park/building. Uwajima is also famous for bull fighting and a fertility shrine, Taga Jinja, which is next to a sex museum full of umm……unusual items from all over the world. Apparently an old caretaker of the shrine liked to travel the world and collect these things, quite an interesting hobby. The castle was really pretty, the rumors were true. The ... read more
View from Uwajima-jo
Random Lizard on the Castle Walls
Street in Uwajima

Asia » Japan » Ehime » Ochi » Kamijima November 21st 2008

This is my last blog entry. I decided to make it a kind of "best of" list. I've posted all of my favorite photos I took during my two years teaching in Japan. In addition, I have a few lists I made during my last couple of months in Japan: my opinion of the best things about Japan and the worst things about Japan. I realized that a lot of my favorite things and least favorite things about Japan involve food, so I made a separate list: My favorite food in Japan that I can't get easily in the U.S. and Food I miss from the U.S. The items on the lists are in no particular order. Enjoy! Best Things about Japan: -tatami floors -practical bicycles -traditions (music, tea ceremony, ikebana, art) -festivals -public transportation -enka ... read more
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Asia » Japan » Ehime » Ochi » Kamijima November 11th 2008

The following is an essay I wrote about my experience in Japan. It was published in both English and Japanese in the 2008 Japan Exchange and Teaching Journal. Lessons from Obaa-chan and Ojii-chan: Overcoming Ageism in the Aging Society of Japan Japan: the land of contrast. It is the land of skyscrapers and mountains, hi-tech toilets and hot spring baths, vending machines and tea ceremony. It’s also the land of a decreasing birth rate and an increasing population of elders. In fact, Japan is facing a serious demographic dilemma, as about a fifth of its population are aged 65 years or older, making it the most rapidly aging society in the world. Putting aside the countless negative effects this problem is presenting to Japan, what effect did it have on me as an American living and ... read more
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Asia » Japan » Ehime » Ochi » Kamijima October 18th 2008

Well, what can I say? This is it. The end of my two years in Japan. The end of my life as Jennie-Sensei, as the only white person in the community, as the first woman to come here to teach English, as that weirdo who got countless stares but even more cheerful greetings, as an independent woman taking on the world. Obviously, the past two years hasn’t been all adventure and enlightenment. There was a lot of loneliness, feelings of not fitting in, frustration with language, culture, coworkers. But as a whole, these last two years were exactly what my predecessors said they would be: a life-changing experience. Not only have I opened my eyes, mind, and heart to ways of the world I never knew existed, but I have also had the time (a LOT ... read more
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Asia » Japan » Ehime » Ochi » Kamijima October 2nd 2008

Note: These last few blog entries are extremely overdue. I am posting them about three months after these events took place. With only one more week of school left before summer vacation, and the temperature and humidity going up, up, up, school life on the island of Yuge is going out with a bang. Not that the students aren’t studying as hard as ever and us teachers aren’t delivering our regular lessons, but in addition to the daily academics of school, we are taking advantage of the summer and our beautiful island in the Inland Sea. And with only two weeks before I fly out of my life here and back to the homeland, there couldn’t be a better way to end my two years of teaching here. At my junior high school, we’ve been training ... read more
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