Nikko and
Kinugawa!
- Toshigi Prefecture (January 2-4, 2003)
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| The hotel we stayed at in Kinugawa, was much more enjoyable than the disaster we stayed at in Nikko. It must, however, be said that most ryokan in Japan are excellent. | The best part of staying at a Japanese inn is definitively the hot springs and dinner. I do not, however, enjoy getting up at 7 o'clock in the morning to eat dead fish and other strange oddities. |
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| Finally a picture to show what happens when the "red eye"-function is not used when taking pictures of really, really white people. | A picture from our hotel room in Kinugawa. The town is very developed, and rather looks like any communist town in Belarus. Environmental concerns have never been much of a priority in Japan, nor so in the rest of Asia for that matter. |
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| In Kinugawa, we took the ropeway up to about 700 meters or so, where we among other things could see monkeys kept in cages. The view was very nice though. | Finally, on the way back home, I stopped by "Jan Jan Pachinko". Yes, this place actually exists, though you may be excused for thinking that I built the place myself to worship my own name. |
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| In the evening, we ate shabu shabu at a random restaurant, and that marked the end of our trip. |