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    • TravelerTrip to Asia
      1
      Day 60

      One Piece, japonais et Totoro !

      March 9, 2020 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Un petit billet culturel, un de plus !
      Japon oblige, j'ai commencé un manga ! Et quoi de mieux pour entrer dans le genre que le manga le plus vendu de l'histoire (460 millions d'exemplaires !!), j'ai nommé One Piece ! J'ai englouti les 7 premiers tomes des fantastiques histoires du pirate Luffy... Avis aux connaisseurs : que conseilleriez-vous à quelqu'un qui débute en manga ?? C'est pas pour tout de suite mais bon on sait jamais.

      Côté Japon sinon, Kyoto comme Osaka offrent pas mal de galeries d'art ouvertes et gratuites ! On y trouve de tout et c'est l'occasion de découvrir l'art contemporain japonais ! La pop culture japonaise est comme les temples : omniprésente ! On croise des Pokémons en chaussettes, un Totoro en 2 × 2m, un magasin dédié au studio Ghibli, des mangas occupant une dizaine de rayons par centre commerciaux... Nouveauté et pas des moindres : on s'est (enfin) mis au japonais ! C'est pas évident mais grâce à des livres (on a investi dans un lire normalement destiné aux enfants de 5 ans !) une application et beaucoup de conseils, on est en train d'apprendre les différents alphabets et symboles (Hiraganas et Katakanas)... c'est une dynamique complétement différente mais on s'accroche ! On vous tient au jus !

      Sinon j'ai repris les trouvailles musicales mais une fois par semaine et plusieures d'un coup... Elles sont toujours disponibles sur mon Instagram et Facebook pour ceux en manque de nouveaux sons ;)

      PS : Aller voir dans les photos, on est tombé sur un restaurant "français" avec un menu, disons... original !      Read more

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    • TravelerJapan 2023
      Day 31

      Nonaka

      October 9, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      I left Takahara at 08.30 and walked 13km along the next section of the Kumano Kodo to Nonaka., the Nakahechi section. There was drizzle or mist occasionally in the morning, and rain in the late-afternoon. The route included steep ups and downs, mainly inside the forest. I passed many oijis (shrines) and walked from Post 8 to Post 34, the posts being 500m apart. The route was well-signposted with toilets and cafes in the villages. The path was mainly a forest track with stones and roots although there sections of tarmac, usually roads, such as the last couple of kilometres this afternoon.
      Each overnight stop provided a bento-box lunch for the following day.
      There were no bears or leeches but I saw monkeys high in the trees and heard some birds although they were mainly unseen.
      I passed or was passed by about a dozen others on the trail so this section wasn't busy. The views would have been great if it wasn't so misty.
      At Nonaka, I walked up some steps past massive cedar trees, which were common at the entrance to shrines, to see Tsugizakura-oiji.
      I walked back a couple of kilometres, using my umbrella in the rain, to the overnight accommodation which was a minshuku called 3rd Place Kumano Kodo. I had a 5-room annex to myself.
      Dinner consisted of 20 items Japanese-style. The other guests were five ladies from Perth who stayed in an adjacent annex.
      On the way back to my annex, I slipped down a badly-lit slope and lost one of the slippers provided in the annex.
      There was nothing of interest to watch on TV which was the case generally although BBC World was available at a few hotels in the cities.      Read more

    • TravelerJapan 2023
      Day 30

      Takahara

      October 8, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      At 7.00, I went to the Buddhist religious service at Fudoin Lodge. There were about 24 worshippers plus two priests. The service was conducted in Japanese and English with some information being projected on to a screen. I joined the other worshippers in burning incense. One of the priests outlined the stages of meditation which we practised for 10 minutes; posture, breathing, and the acceptance of the Buddhist image into your heart.
      At 07.50, those of the worshippers who were residents went into breakfast which was Japanese-style and vegetarian.
      At 09.00, a taxi collected me for the drive south through the Kii Mountains which reached 1000m and were densely forested with deep gorges. We arrived on the coast at Tanabe by midday, and I went into the Tourist Information Centre at the train station to be given a comprehensive account of the Kumano Kodo with maps, bus timetables, etc. This was part of my Kumano Kodo package arranged by Inside Japan.
      I bought a snack lunch from 7-11, one of the 24 hour supermarkets which were very common in Japan, the others being Family Mart and Lawsons. 7-11 had ATMs which accepted foreign credit cards when you neede local currency.
      I took a local bus to Takijiri, which was the starting-point of this branch of the Kumano Kodo, and was met by a guide who took me to the Pilgrimage Centre which had a small exhibition about the Kumano Kodo, and also showed by the first shrine on the pilgrimage route.
      I was given a shite umbrella at the Centre which I retained for the rest of the holiday although it was used rarely.
      Unfortunately, steady rain had begun in mid-morning and I didn't fancy walking for a couple of hours in the rain. Fortunately, the owner of the night's accommodation came and collected us by car to take us to Takahara. The guide showed me the shrine and camphor tree there.
      The minshuku (family-run guesthouse) was called Hatago MasaRa. The husband was Japanese and his wife was French. A Japanese couple, who I saw again the following day hiking, were the the other guests. I had a bedroom and lounge.
      It was misty and foggy in the mountains.      Read more

    • Japan
      Day 6

      Also der Zug ist abgefahren!

      July 27, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      Man war das warm!

      Heute waren wir bei "Nakau" frühstücken. Das scheint eine größere Kette zu sein. Deshalb war die Auswahl inklusive aller Zutaten bebildert dargestellt. Das spart uns Zeit und Worte.

      Nach dem Essen haben wir uns die Burg Osaka angeschaut. Nur von außen, weil sie innen nicht historisch wiederaufgebaut wurde.
      Und es war wirklich warm.
      36°C und 54% Luftfeuchtigkeit.
      Läuft bei uns!

      Dann ging es zum Bahnhof Tennoji und mit dem Zug nach Kii-Tanabe. Ah da kommt der Zug ja schon...
      "Haben Sie Sitzplätze reserviert?"
      Äh nee
      "Dann können Sie nicht mitfahren!"
      Aha...

      Ja super.
      Das war heute die letzte Verbindung, um zur Unterkunft mitten in den Kii-Bergen zu kommen.
      Wir erreichen jetzt nämlich den letzten Bus ab Tanabe nicht mehr.
      Es war jetzt 13:30 wohl gemerkt.

      Also war die Frage folgende: Die Hälfte des Weges mit einem anderen Bus fahren und dann trampen (laufen wären immernoch 5h) oder ein Taxi nehmen?

      Als wir uns vor Ort, später am Tag, schon fürs Trampen entschieden haben, spricht uns zufällig ein Guide für den Kumano-Kodo-Pilgerweg an: "Das Trampen lasst mal lieber sein. Da oben fährt kaum einer lang und die Menschen sind sehr reserviert."

      Also schlussendlich doch das Taxi. So haben wir nur eine Stunde gebraucht und doch noch ein super leckeres Abendessen bekommen. (Ban-gohan wa totemo oishii desu yo。)

      おやすみなさい - Gute Nacht      Read more

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    • TravelerJapan 2023
      Day 32

      Yunomine Onsen

      October 10, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      In the afternoon, I walked a very steep section of the Kumano Kodo entitled Daimchi-goe over the top of a mountain from Hongu to Yunomine Onsen. It was only 2km but took a couple of hours. An American lady avoided a very poisonous snake on the path. I had blood on my trousers so may have been bitten by a leech on my lower right leg.
      I could smell the sulphur when descending into Yunomine Onsen. I went to the Public Bath which had an 1800 -year history. The entry cost Y400 plus Y700 for a small towel which I kept. There was only one other person in the onsen.
      There was a stream of hot water flowing alongside the road in the village where a few people were using the foot-bath, and where you could boil eggs.
      My overnight accommodation was Ryokan Yunomineso which was slightly out of town so it was the final walk of a day when I'd probably walked 13km in total. The ryokan was more like a medium-sized hotel.
      Dinner was in a large dining room with individual tables all facing in one direction, a bit like a classroom. There were eleven dishes in the Japanese set meal, and this was the first and only place where a waiter indicated in which order the dishes should be eaten.
      Having dressed in the yakata, after dinner, I went to the onsen which had two indoor and one outdoor pools.      Read more

    • TravelerJapan 2023
      Day 33

      Koguchi

      October 11, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

      The Japanese set breakfast included a small glass of orange juice which typified the miniaturisation of the food and drink on the set menus.
      The ryokan at Yunomine provided a transfer to the bus-stop in the village where I caught a bus to Ukegawa from where I walked 13 km from Post 54 to 29 at Koguchi.
      I met again the American from Washington DC and a lady from Singapore plus a couple from Walthamstow which included a lady who worked at St Thomas's Hospital; a small world. An Aussie lady took my photo at the viewpoint and summit called Hyakken-gura about halfway along today's hike.
      I stayed at a converted schoolhouse called Shizen-no-le, a ryokan with about 20 guests including an Intrepid group on an activity holiday. There was an onsen.
      The Japanese set dinner and breakfast were in a large dining-hall with your seat indicated by your room number.      Read more

    • TravelerJapan 2023
      Day 32

      Hongu

      October 10, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

      On a sunny and warm day, I walked 3 km downhill to the Nonaka bus-stop where there was a Dutchman doing the same journey. The bus took us to Hongu, and then another bus to Hoshinman which was on the Kumano Kodo.
      I walked 6km downhill from Post 63 to 75, buying a herb-juice and plums on the way. This was a popular section, maybe because it was mainly downhill on good paths with good views, passing fields of horticulture and fruit tress, and because Kumano Hongu Taisha, one of the three most important shrines on the Kumano Kodo, was at the end.
      After walking around the shrine-complex, I continued down the long stone path marked with cedar trees to the shrine's entrance, and then towards the river where, in a field, was the largest Torri gate in the world which had been repositioned there. I ate my bento-box lunch on a nearby bench.      Read more

    • Sophie And NeveExploring the Unknown
      1
      Day 183

      Collecting two more Kumano Kodo stamps

      February 29, 2020 in Japan ⋅ 🌧 7 °C

      As we have mentioned in our earlier blog posts, collecting the stamps along the Komano Kodo is both fun, but it is also important to collect all of the stamps along the route to ensure we get our completion stamp at the end of our trek. This will ensure that we receive a pilgrim designation. Throughout the day today, it was raining. The rain really started to pick up in the afternoon. However, there were two stamps we required that were a 2 km walk from our Minshuku. Despite the rain, we all put on our rain gear, grabbed our umbrellas and made the trek for two more stamps. I’m so glad we decided to head out in the rain again because it was a beautiful, albeit wet, walk. We again saw huge trees and a beautiful gate leading up to a shrine. It was well worth the walk and we got two more stamps.

      Clarinda      Read more

    • Sophie And NeveExploring the Unknown
      Day 184

      Trees along the Kumano Kodo

      March 1, 2020 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

      Today we trekked 17 km. Our trek started with a fairly steep 1 km climb and then settled into a downhill. The rest of the day was fairly flat and at times, our route took us through small Japanese villages. We collected 9 stamps today including our Komano Kodo completion stamp. We were also gifted some cookies by an elderly Japanese couple driving along our route who asked where we were from. It was so nice!!

      Because I absolutely love trees, I will post some of my favorite tree photos from today. Enjoy!

      Clarinda      Read more

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    Tanabe-shi, たなべし

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