Traveling Japan you will notice that something is missing… tourist cities on the coast… until the end of my trip I did not manage to get to some Brighton or Nice (Nizza for our German readers) of Japan… coastal towns strictly for leisure do not exits… and this although the coast line is […]

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When you think of Japan, you most likely think of houses cramped next to each other and people everywhere… well that is much true for the Tokyo area but there is a big contrast once you see the north… lush green everywhere, rivers flowing through near pristine forest and no civilization not left […]

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I can not believe this, but I think this should be treated as a hint that my journey throughout this wonderful country is soon to be over… buying a pack of these super tasting UFO noodles I did not notice but the clerk put a fork in my bag whereas one usually would […]

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OK, this was scary… somewhen around midnight tonight, I got up in fear… the entire room was rattling and shaking… wow… lucky me I was sleeping in a ryokan (means futon rather than western style beds) so I could not fall out of my bed… but this wake up call was scary… in my […]

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What to say… after my Osaka experience and my desire to see the villages in Japan, I have visited now 3 more or less small villages this week… although the first one Takayama is a weekend tourist attraction and was packed on the Sunday I arrived once I reach Monday it seems that […]

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Now I made it to Osaka… after the tranquility of Kotohira a sharp contrast… this multi-million city is a vibrant place… going out on Friday night was like you would have been in Alicante during summer… full of people, party everywhere… I guess, there are few places on earth which can keep up […]

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Hehe, you might wonder what the title is all about… after staying now so much time in the big cities I decided to flee from the heat (here we heave tempretures north of 30 degrees Celsius everyday) and looked for a escape into cooler areas… searching for such a place I found in […]

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Well, actually it is not such a different Japan… Shikoku is one of the four major islands of Japan, but for some reason ´less visited… I took the fairy from Hiroshima to Matsuyama and found myself in a much slower paced Japan… although still a considerable city with half a million inhabitants, it […]

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After my superweekend in Nagasaki now I am in Fukuoka… this is actually my second stop over in this city, as I spent two days here on my way to Nagasaki… this city is more or less the gateway into the Kyushu island and due to its size (1.4m people) and its wealth […]

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Assuming that you know the sad story of the A-Bomb and all the writing connected with it… after seeing the history museum of Nagasaki I tell you will still be missing words for hours… it is hard to believe the extend of the damage this bomb has done… but than you step out […]

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