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22 Days in Japan, Day 18: Exploring Togakushi
It’s a dark, cloudy day. The sun is nowhere to be found in Nagano.
Since the ryokan (Japanese inn) that I’m currently staying in isn’t close to Togura station (about a 25 minute walk), Tyler the innkeeper gives me a lift, getting there just as the train is coming in.
22 Days in Japan, Day 17: Nagano, Rain, and a Scary BridgeKyoto is now miles away, and I’m on the train to my next destination: Nagano. Yep, the same Nagano that hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics. It lies in the (more) northern part of Japan that’s so far been largely unexplored (by me). |
22 Days in Japan, Day 16: Zen and the Art of Staring at RocksDay 16? Already? Six days left. Normally, my goal each day is just to see as much as possible. But today I’ve got a different goal: to be enlightened. I’m referring to Ryoan-ji, of course. |
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22 Days in Japan, Day 15: NaraI wake up a little after 10 o’clock on Day 15. I’m still in Kyoto, still in a ryokan called IchiEnSou. Unfortunately, it looks like everyone else left already. |
22 Days in Japan, Day 14: Kyoto, Kiyomizu, and KeshaThe day starts out like any other day, with me eating the same orange juice and pastry combo that I’ve been having since Day One (minus that one day I accidentally bought a curry donut). But it ends on a much higher note. |
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22 Days in Japan, Day 13: Den-den TownIt’s a crap day, rainy and nasty. I wake up at 10 am, and trudge out into the downpour sometime around 11. Yep, another late start. Today I’m headed to Temma, home of another super long 2.4 km mall (sort of like the Shinsaibashi Shopping area) and the Tenmangu shrine. |
22 Days in Japan, Day 12: Osaka Science Museum, Umeda, and Spa WorldDay 12. Osaka, Japan. I wake up at 9:30 thanks to some guy in my six-person dorm room who decides to start his Osaka adventure early by opening and closing backpack zippers for half an hour. It’s about 10:30 by the time I get out of the hostel and into the city. |
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22 Days in Japan, Day 11: McDonald’s Has Never Tasted So GoodAnd there goes Nagoya. I’m in Osaka, the third phase of my journey into Japan. |
22 Days in Japan, Day 10: A Trip to the ZooToday’s my last real day in Nagoya, and I closed it, in part, by going to the zoo. I haven’t been to the zoo in 10 years. |
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22 Days in Japan, Day 9: Sick DayIt’s Day 9, and I’ve just spent a full day trying to soak up as much of Nagoya as I can. Maybe I’ve soaked up a little too much. |
22 Days in Japan, Day 8: Don’t Go To Nagoya Castle at 5 PMDay 8. One week of my trip is now officially over. Tokyo is long gone, and I’m now in Nagoya, after a three-hour shinkansen run where I amused myself by alternating between sleeping and playing 1990s era computer games on my laptop. And drinking my free orange juice. |
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