Japan

Day 4: Kyoto
June 7, 2008 - Kyoto, Japan
The Intrepid World Traveler and the Keisatsu... Today. Was beer garden day. Yes, good sirs and madams. Beer. Garden. For around 30 dollars, one may purchase all you can eat Japanese food (tabehoudai), as well as all you can drink of beer and liquor (nomihoudai). Beer gardens are usually on top of buildings, so maybe the garden part comes...
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Day 3: Kyoto
June 6, 2008 - Kyoto, Japan
Yopparai naa..... So, day 1 of Kyoto kinda sucked... we walked up and down the streets FOREVER with our luggage, because while some streets are named in Japan, most addresses are done according to when the building was established, so our inn was not very easy to find. In fact, the person at the station before we left for Kyoto told us...
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Day 2: Osaka and Kobe
June 5, 2008 - Osaka, Japan
Ooooosaka.... yes, you really do say it that way... *Sorry for the delay, internet is hard to come by, believe it or not. So today was the day that we ventured out into the world of Japan without Randy. The plan was to hike Mt. Rokko, and although the sky seemed somewhat foreboding, we took the train to meet up with Wes’ friend Katherine. ...
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Day 1: Kobe
June 4, 2008 - Kobe, Japan
Beware, Japan! The gaijin have arrived!! Today Randy took off of work, so we decided to do some exploration of Kobe. We grabbed some onigiri rice balls from the store and headed to downtown. Randy’s train stop, Tanigami Station, is apparently one of the more expensive stops in Japan, ataround 510 yen ( about 5 bucks ). We rode the train...
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Arrival!
June 3, 2008 - Kobe, Japan
So I'd never been on a plane before... After having been up since 9am Sunday morning, we decided to go ahead and pull an all-nighter so we could sleep on the plane. Our first flight, from Atlanta to Toronto, was a micro-mini plane, with 10 rows on each side. Matt said he wasn't sure if our attendant was gay or just really French... Going...
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