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Asia » Japan » Kagoshima December 20th 2009

Arriving after a hard night on the upper deck of the ferry with drinking Japanese spirits and beers with a cyclist that I just met, I arrived on Amami Oshima at 5 AM. On that very morning I found lovely Ohama beach and camping, however I decided to stay two days in Naze, just to wait for better weather, then headed south towards Setouchi and found a nice lonely remote beach with campground, Yadori. Stayed for two nights, and returned back to Naze with no idea what to do next. On the way, I almost bumped into my cycling friends from Kyushu in a 2.4 kilometer long tunnel. We decided to camp together for a couple of days on Ohama. For me, finally resting after more than 3600 kilometers of cycling. I found the warm beaches, ... read more
Yadori beach, just for myself...
Farn tree...
Sunset on Ohama beach

Asia » Japan » Kagoshima August 6th 2009

no es el tu que quiero, sino la pintura que disegno sobra il tuo imagine. la storia infinita, a never endin story. rebeca. todo fue ya dicho, pero la repito otra vez, no per te, sino per me: antes que vine para ti,para mi, para nos, hasta al otro lado del mundo, te ho scritto ya mis intenciones. hubieras sido bueno,justo, si hubieras reflectado un po y me lo comunicado antes. pero no importa. vine. lleno de obsession te forze hacia una cosa que ni siquiera estabas seguro que quierias, ahogando un fuego, ya antes que era fuego, por peter encima demasiado madera pesada. me trataste mal ,pero lo accpto, pues entendia que estabas enojada. te dejo 5 anos atras,estaba 4 anos en otra realacion y ahorra regresso para estar contigo otra vez. u2 canto:have u ... read more

Asia » Japan » Kagoshima August 2nd 2009

hitchhike under open umbrella.girl come,wanna help me, holdin out her thumb 2. 1gr mariuanna 50 u$. accepted invitation 2 sleep fromyoung usaenglish teacher. sunny.truck 4 200 m 2 kyushu.accepted an invitation 2 onsen. another tentstick broke.repairin. gettin tired ofruntitan. travel with umbrella. amagase, free onsens.yufuin, touristy but nice. went 2 intanet searchin: best places kyushu. 1 anser: kurokawa.i go n check. was nice place,spa, now mt. aso, volcano, world biggest caldera. camped at fantastic viewpoint.,did some nightwalkin which i enjoyed muchmuch, sittin on hilltop, observin iluminated cities lettin, meanwhile, my mind play with itself. kirishima. am invited an xpensiv campin n onsen. i think we were childish flirtin, grinnin all time, madedate 4 2morrow 9.00. made day in kagoshima,planetarium.date 4 2morrow firework. camp on maruo waterfall view point. very beau... read more

Asia » Japan » Kagoshima » Yakushima January 5th 2009

Wednesday I was awoken by the 6am train going past my hostel the next morning and moved around in the slight darkness to find and stuff all my things into my backpack before heading out into the morning light. Walked up to the station taxi stand and rode off into the dawn to get to the ferry terminal before the 7:45am ferry took off. Since I had made a reservation the day before I had to go back and get my ticket and pick where my seat would be. Still feeling a little green around the edges from the day before, I decided to play it safe and sit away from the windows and tried to take a short nap during the 2 hour trip. Yakushima is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the huge ... read more
Yakushima
Yakushima
Yakushima

Asia » Japan » Kagoshima » Sakurajima January 4th 2009

Ah New Years, the 3 times a year that I have a week off to explore and indulge my travel hobby. This New Years vacation though, would prove to be one of my more interesting travel tales. It will also take a couple blogs to fill all of it onto the screen. Monday Let's begin the holiday vacation at 5:00am on the morning of the 29th, because that when I got myself out of bed to get the 6:00am shinkansen out of Sendai. After going through my morning routine and making sure I had all my needed things in my backpack, I set out in the dark to the station. Having bought my tickets the day before I headed up to the shinkansen tracks to find a problem. The conductor was explaining to a bunch of ... read more
Sakurajima
Sakurajima
Sakurajima

Asia » Japan » Kagoshima » Kagoshima November 23rd 2008

Beppu is famous for its natural hot springs (onsen) and here we fully indulged in the Japanese tradition. One of the highlights of our trip here was discovering the rotenburos, which are outdoor volcanic springs in the Myouban Onsen area. Beppu has a famous old onsen called Takagawara which was the hotest we experienced. Next we took a day trip to Mount Aso, one of the largest calderas in the world, which is made up of five peaks. We went to Mount Naka an acitve crater and the pictures tell the story. Our plan after Beppu was to travel to the tropical island of Yakushima. On our arrival in Kagoshima at the tip of Kyushu we stayed in the excellent Nakzona Ryokan whose helpful owner Shinichi informed us of an impending typhoon. As the weather worsened ... read more
02 Steam rising from an outdoor onsen near Beppu
03 Duncan enjoys a well earned soak!
04 Our favourite outdoor onsen

Asia » Japan » Kagoshima » Kagoshima October 29th 2008

mittwoch, 29.10.08 am letzten freitag geht dann die reise weiter richtung süden - ich will ja wie gesagt noch nach kyushu, der südlichsten insel von japan ausser den paar kleinen inselchen, die noch weiter südlich kommen würden. okinawa mit hattori hanso wäre dort irgendwo weit im süden... übrigens habe ich kürzlich von adam ein mail bekommen, dass er inzwischen in okinawa angekommen sei. ;-) so flitze ich denn mit dem shikansen von hiroshima nach kokura und weiter mit dem limited express nach beppu, welches für seine onsen und für die sogenannten 'hells' bekannt ist. diese höllen sind themenparks in der umgebung von beppu, wo auf basis von blubbernden tümpeln und zischendem wasserdampf touristen angelockt werden sollen - was auch ganz ordentlich klappt. es ist nicht der absolute hit, aber trotzdem recht lustig und erinnert mich an ... read more
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water lily
rice field

Asia » Japan » Kagoshima » Kagoshima May 8th 2008

Ages and ages ago....actually it was less than 2 months ago, but it feels like longer! I went to Kyuushu. Kyushu is one of the 5 main islands and the furthest southern. (excluding Okinawa) Yoshimi had a few days off in a row, a rarity, so she asked me to accompany her on some trip. She didn't know where she wanted to go and overseas was too far with our time schedule so we had to think about where to go in Japan. We both wanted to go somewhere we hadn't been, so I suggested Kyuushu. I got there a night earlier so I explored the city a bit on my own. I settled in to my hotel and wandered off in search of dinner. I stopped at a yaki niku restaurant. The yaki niku was ... read more
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Asia » Japan » Kagoshima » Kagoshima May 1st 2008

Hello When i last left you i had arrived in Fukuoka! Well i stayed their for a coupe of days and relaxed in the vibrant city! Did a bit of shopping! Sorry Mum! Got some sweet trainers! Met some cool boys from new zealand! Who i am meeting in Thailand! Thats pretty much all i did! I then took the train down to the bottom of the Japanese island of Honshu to a place called Kagoshima! There is not really alot to do here! Did go out in the evening though with some irish egineers who live over here. That was a good laugh. Other than tht just relaxed before getting the early ferry (8:30 am) to Yakushima! Yakushima This island is a natural world heriatage site so the views are pretty special! I hiked around ... read more

Asia » Japan » Kagoshima » Kagoshima November 22nd 2007

Waking up to another beautiful sunny day in Kagoshima I pondered on doing a trip to Mt. Sakurajima for some hiking. However, save for the fact of going there, there wasn't really anything to focus my interest on. There is a viewpoint where you can supposedly get a better look at the crater which spews out smoke pretty much daily, but due to security zones it didn't really sound that promising. Instead I decided to go in the opposite direction, to scale the hills west of town to take advantage of the clear skies and take some good tourist-style snaps of the city and the volcano. Then there was the fact that I still couldn't get the images from yesterday's visit to the aquarium out of my head and I knew I would have to go ... read more
A tram passes Takami-baba
C'mon man, give it your best shot!
Sidestreet houses




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