“If I was to punch that rich looking guy, would he sue me?” That was the question I put to my brother whilst we were walking around our Onsen Hotel in Kotohira, Japan. His response was quick: “No, he’d probably apologise for walking into your fist.” It’s funny, but it does actually make an interesting [...]
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The Tokyo Bike Tree
Having just returned from Japan, I can appreciate how well the Japanese use their creativity in inventing ways of maximising the small amounts of space that they have. You may remember that I blogged about the vertical car parks, where people park their car inside a lift and the mechanism takes it upwards and stores [...]
Sayonara And Thanks For All The Fish
This will be my last blog from within Japan. I still have a few experiences to blog about (Japanese Archery, Onsens, funny photos and my overall reflections of a great experience), which I will do from back home. I am sitting here typing this blog post in a hotel just outside Narita Airport. I’ve had my [...]
The Japanese Store That Sells Everything
After beginning the day trying out the massage chair in the hotel (photograph 1), which managed to pummel my back into seventeen pieces and squeeze my feet so hard that the toes almost merged together (hey, cool – webbed feet), we left Kotohira to travel to Kobe the fifth largest city in Japan. This blog [...]
Japanese Onsen
I took some photographs of the second Japanese Onsen that we visited during my time in Japan, so that you can get an idea of what they look like and how they are set up. Don’t worry, there are no naked bodies in the photographs anywhere. If you remember from my previous blog post, Onsens [...]
Japan – Sashami and Udon
Today’s journey took us to the little town of Kotohira. Tonight, we are yet again staying in a Japanese Onsen Hotel. However, this one is considerably more up-market than last night’s one. Here I am, for example, sitting in the lounge, listening to jazz and drinking beer by the fire, whilst I write this blog. [...]
