The rain went away!!
And i found a place to stay... Yay!!Thanx for doing that anti-rain dance you guys!
Hmm.. its sad to hear that in the short time ive been gone johnny has sold the place to a chinese man and the name has changed to Grinzgotz.. :P
Anyway..
found this little place called "Niceday inn" Im not sure if the pun was intened but it certainly was a nice day in yesterday after the rain.
Trekked around Hakodate today, pretty little fishing town that originally had russian and english settlers. It shows as there's parts of town which look more like europe, or even Liverpool, than Japan. Cobbled roads, big red brick factory buildings on the warf, a funny enlgish style brick bridge, ah, but still, its very cold, and windy.
So im headed to Sendai 2moro to try to catch the cherry blossoms. Sendai is about halfway between tokyo and hokkaido (the top island where i am now).
And in answer to your question Melsy;
Yeah i did see the cherry blossums (sakura), on the first day i was in tokyo (alas I didnt have my digital camera). They were near the end of their short blossuming period (about one week) and so the parks were covered in pink petals. It was certainly something special to walk through the trees just as a gust of wind blew a snow storm of the petals down. I can see why the Japs go crazy during golden week. (golden week is the time period the petals are in flower so it differs from city to city.) The tokyo golden week must have just finished and up here it starts on the 29th or 30th. Therefore somewhere in between they must have cherry blossums.. So thats why im headed to Sendai 2moro.
Ran into a British couple who said theyve just come up from Kyoto whilst the cherry blossums were out.. apparently it was so over run with Japanese tourists they struggled to find any accomodation. Hope thats not the case in Sendai. Anyhow I mite start to ring ahead and book places. :) Then again, that sounds too organised for me :)
Oh, and i found the cheapest place to eat in Japan. Its called "7-eleven" and you can get a big cup of noodles, a sandwich and a drink for around 500 - 600yen ($6-$7). And that drink can even be beer for that price..
Catch you all when I next find a Computa..
-Glenno Fish
posted by Fish @ 7:42 AM
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Socool yr trvling, mus du soon, dying here. But i saw the best gig last week, Daniel Lanois who's produced Bob Dylan, U2 worked with Eno 25 yrs, wrote songs last 3 u2 albums. Gig at Basement, a master musician. But like i sed, dying here, love ya bro, so happpyy yr not at cranz. j
Hi Glenn, Sounds as though you're having a great time travelling around. Maybe it would be a good idea to book accomm. sometimes. Did you travel from Hokkaido via the Seikan tunnel (33.4m, the world's longest says the map on your wall- don't know how old that is though.) There's a castle at Sendai too. A kid at school gave me a green tea Kit Kat the other day- came from Japan and looked awful but tasted ok. Hope you find some more cherry blossoms,
Love Mum XO
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