leaving japan by boat

Busan 14/08-15/08

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August 21st 2008
August is suposed to be a holiday month, so i decided to make it a holiday. August 12th i took the local train from Tokoy to Hiroshima (16 hours) where i spent the nigth, the next day i took the local train to shimonoseki (5 hours) where i jumped on the ferry to South-Korea. For some period of time i'm interested in this country, because of it's kind of similarity to Japan (little bit), it's devid ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Busan

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more