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Japan Trip Reflections and Photo Dump
Miscellaneous Photo Dump First, for great justice, miscellaneous photos of the trip that didn’t make it into specific entries. Table of Events Because I’m organised like that. 8 Jan 2014 Day 1 We arrived in Tokyo, checked in at Hotel Villa Fontaine Ueno, and had dinner at a CoCo Ichibanya nearby. Crappy rainy weather in…
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Japan Trip Day 7: Last Day
It is the last day of our first trip in Japan. I will really miss this…
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Hotel Princess Garden, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Hotel Princess Garden (ホテル プリンセスガーデン) was a comfortable five-minute walk from Meguro Station (目黒駅), so even though we were tired from a whole three days of skiing and a long bus trip back, we weren’t complaining. We didn’t check in until after 10 pm so the stay at the hotel was brief. Our room was…
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All the Junk from Famima Japan
It was already very late by the time we made it back to Tokyo by bus and checked in at the hotel. Not a single restaurant or grocer in the area was still open, so in desperation, we went into the corner convenience store Famima (short for FamilyMart) and swept every hot food they had…
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Japan Trip Days 4-6: First Time Skiing: Nozawa Onsen, Nagano, Japan
After dinner, our big ski group took the overnight bus to our destination ski resort. It was a long trip of over 8 hours. The bus stopped for multiple toilet and food breaks during the night, but all I wanted was a warm bed in a dark room for some proper shuteye. I don’t know…
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Yamasanso, Nozawa, Nagano, Japan
Yamasanso (山三荘) in Nozawa Onsen (野沢温泉), Nagano Prefecture (長野県) is really a ryokan than a hotel, but you get the gist. We originally wanted to stay at another cheaper ski resort nearby that everyone else was at (Resort Inn Chitose), but they were fully booked out, so Yamasanso it was! We got there too early…
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Kakoiya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
We had a table at Kakoiya Shinjuku (かこいや 新宿店) for our ice-breaking ski group dinner of about 14-15 of us. I didn’t know pretty much all of them until I met them for the first time at the station, but most of them already knew one another from previous ski trips. After a lot of…
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