A: Kansai Airport
B: JR Kyoto Station
C: JR Kanazawa Station
D: Shirakawa-gou
E: JR Takayama Station
F: JR Matsumoto Station
G,I: JR Nagano Station
H: Yudanaka Station
J: JR Karuizawa Station
K: JR Ikebukuro Station
980 km – about 17 hours 20 mins
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Package from Narita!
Received my package that I had to hastily send from Narita Airport (excess baggage) on 10 August - pleasantly surprised that it took 3 weeks (it was supposed to take one month). Have forgotten most of what I stuffed inside the cardboard box last minute, so will go unpack some of it.
Back to school, where the days are long (terrible timetable this semester) and the food ain't good.
Don't know if I should change the name of this blog or just leave it (which I'd probably do, judging by my laziness). On hindsight, I should have tried my best to blog as much as I could when I was away - it was just too difficult to pin down my thoughts and upload the photos so often.
Back to school, where the days are long (terrible timetable this semester) and the food ain't good.
Don't know if I should change the name of this blog or just leave it (which I'd probably do, judging by my laziness). On hindsight, I should have tried my best to blog as much as I could when I was away - it was just too difficult to pin down my thoughts and upload the photos so often.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Back home
Okay so this blog wasn't updated as frequently as I thought it would be (or as it should be), but I'm back home!
Arrived early Monday morning, took a nap before heading to school for the Placement Test and bumping into alvin/wanwei/junyan despite not having a phone (I need one sooon!).
Things do feel a *little* different - English signs everywhere, people *not* standing on the left side of the escalator, people blasting the cellphones and talking out loud in the trains... but I'm happy to be back - food, friends, family!
Arrived early Monday morning, took a nap before heading to school for the Placement Test and bumping into alvin/wanwei/junyan despite not having a phone (I need one sooon!).
Things do feel a *little* different - English signs everywhere, people *not* standing on the left side of the escalator, people blasting the cellphones and talking out loud in the trains... but I'm happy to be back - food, friends, family!
Friday, August 8, 2008
Hanabi!
Japan's summers are hot - but there're fireworks festivals （花火大会）held nearly every other day in late July and August all over Japan - and this is the REAL deal. They last from one to two HOURS (Singapore's rarely go beyond 10 minutes -_-) with all kinds and colours of fireworks that never fail to draw gasps from the crowds.
It's also the perfect excuse to walk around in your yukata (summer robe?), just like the people of the old used to do when they watched fireworks a century ago.
Wish I could upload them all (they're too big), but here's one of the more spectacular single shots I've seen - this one at Enoshima on Tuesday. (we were seated right in front of the waves at the beach!)
