Here are some proper photos from my travel companion Nick Clark. Highlights include: capsule hotel in Osaka, the Big Buddha at Nara, one of those robot arm game machines for live lobsters, old style pachinko parlours with brass band music, chanting in the temples in Kyoto, glimpsing a proper Geisha through a restaurant window, Christmas log and sake in a traditional inn, riding the bullet train past Fuji while eating a delicious bento box, friendly people in the youth hostel, seeing a live volcano covered in snow, traditional inn food in the spa town of Kurogawa, bathing in caves and near rivers in the hot springs and being surrounded by snow, chatting with locals at the municipal bath at Beppu.
Capsule hotel
Elderly pachinko parlour
Christmas dinner
Man with shadow like a giant squid man. If you look carefully you can see my new christmas jacket.
Dinner at traditional Japanese inn
posted by Gordon Collins at 11:06 AM
2 Comments:
Oh dear, another haiku (this is getting addictive):
On the road through snow -
Squid Man or Space Invaders,
Only Gordon knows.
11:30 PM
It’s the land of the rising sun. It’s everywhere. Truly omnidirectional lighting.
Yes we did sleep in capsules. They have AC but the trouble is it was right next to my head and kept me awake all night with the noise.
2:08 PM
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