13.05.05

Onsen Onsen Onsen and baths

Posted in Japan, in English at 19:00 by foppel

Went to Hakone today… Hakone is City/Region as well southwest of Tokyo..

It features the legendary Sulfur-pits over with you go with a wire-car, and you can eat eggs boiled in sulfuric volcano water…the outside becomes black because of this treatment, but they taste rather good.. well a bit sulfuric..

Later I took a boat over Lake Ashi, in which Mount Fuji is sometimes mirrored, but today he was shy and didn’t show himself.. too bad..

Later I visited the Hakone Shrine, which lies in a really nice forrest.

After that I went to an Onsen.. (which is like an open bath).. It wasn’t the biggest one around, but I had it for myself.. the water was 42 degree Celcius hot (about 90 and some F, i think..)

ok.. going now for a beer :) have fun

Sorry, had to turn off comments

Posted in Japan, in English at 8:00 by foppel

.. I was tired of rewriting the same things all the time..

Send me your comments via mail, I’ll upload them :)

11.05.05

Yokohama, a nice city

Posted in Japan, in English at 22:00 by foppel

Today was Yokohama on the plan. For those who don’t know, Yokohama is a city southwest of Tokyo, and has Japans’ biggest port. But next to the Port, it features Japans tallest building, and one of the biggest Chinese towns in the world.

The elevator in the Building travels at 750 kph, and it takes less than a minute to get to the 96th floor.

Chinatown was nice as well, very colorfull.

But it seems that at least 5 Schools had their road-trip that day to Yokohama.. The streets were swarming with schoolkids in their uniforms..

10.05.05

Akihabara - Electronic Anime Town

Posted in Japan, in English at 22:00 by foppel

I think its been a while that Akihabara was the Town of Electronics, because
it is in the grasp of Game-centers and Anime or Manga parlors.

I am sitting here in the Necca (read Mecca), a gamecenter with attached
Internet cafe’ where the Waitresses are clothed in cute Maid-costumes… very nice :)

One who thinks gamecenters in the USA or Europe are great has to see this.
Fighting games - which are played one on one, like 70% of the games - alone
take a whole floor

But there is still electronic to be bought here in Akihabara.. The proof is
the brand-new 6.5 megapixel camera in my bag ;)

I am here

Posted in Japan, in English at 9:23 by foppel

Hi everybody, I hope this blogentry stays now.
I savely landend in Tokyo, but couldn’t get much sleep on the plane.
Bought all my train-tickets, and had to do that in Japanese to boot.
My Japanese techer will be proud of me :)
Well not much else for today, I actually took a nap and am now off into
the nightlife of Ikebukuro / Tokyo

08.05.05

I am ready to go..

Posted in Japan, in English at 0:55 by foppel

Gonna fly tomorrow..

Everything is packed, I am ready for my big journey to Japan. My Japanese Teacher has provided me with all the informations i might need (Thanks Sumie!!!).

Hotels are booked, trains noted down, contacts are set and presents are bought as well..

Now I just need to remember to bring passport, tickets and stuff like that with me.

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