View from my room

Day 6 Hakone to Tak

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November 16th 2007
Hi, Glad I bought the extra memory card now. . So Hakone to takayama. As you regular readers would know the transfer bus picked me up from the main building hotel at 10.30. I forgot how high we were as a short climb out of the crater then a massive long downhill section to get to Okenawa Station, where I was to pick up the bullet Train to Nagoya. This would of been easier if I had sent ... read more

Asia » Japan

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more