http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/ Shizuoka Guide ja Fri, 24 May 2013 15:39:06 +0900 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:39:06 +0900 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss a-blog 1.9 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=79 Overview of today: From a buffet breakfast with people in their blue and white yukata, I explore gold: as a mine, panned for, and drunk in coffee. Next is the brilliant red of the beni hoppe strawberry, soon staining my greedy fingertips. A farmers market ... Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:57:31 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=79 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=78 Overview of today: After waking to the sea at my window in the morning at the Senoumi ryokan, I explore a series of spots that give a feeling for the daily life of the regular people who make Izu a special place. I chase cherry blossoms, admire an old hous... Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:56:12 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=78 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=75 Overview of today:Today, I explore the arts: professional geisha dance in Shizuoka’s popular resort town of Atami, high art in the Museum of Art, and folk art with waterfalls of handmade little dolls of fabric. Early cherry blossoms struggle to hang on thr... Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:31:25 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=75 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=74 Overview of today: A misty mountain morning of wet snow and hot coffee. The bus back down to Senzu station and a one-room steam train museum of love. Return to Kanaya station on a local ancient train past the end-of-winter scenery. To Yaizu station up the ... Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:28:45 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=74 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=73 Overview of today: From the Kodama #643 Shinkansen to Shizuoka station, changing quickly to the local for Kanaya station. …to the oldest steam powered locomotive in Japan, perhaps the only one! I have signed up for the Oigawa Railway’s “Winter in Sumata” p... Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:50:38 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=73 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=72 Overview of today:The new airport, lunch, and a sake brewery. Can it get better than this?Then, in who knows what condition, I’m forced to walk the plank over the world’s longest wooden footbridge, the Horai Bridge. If I survive, I can be revived at the Wo... Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:39:18 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=72 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=70 Overview of today:The sleek Shinkansen Hikari #463 zips me from Tokyo station to Shizuoka City, where I take the JR for Tokaido post station Yui, to soak in the ambience of the old Tokaido road. I take a walk in the Yui Honjin Park and visit the Tokaido Hi... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:59:46 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=70 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=69 Overview of today:After a morning onsen soak in the hotel next to Hotel Brush Up, and a great hotel breakfast, I am off on a long mountain drive to the small town of Fujinomiya, site of two spectacular waterfalls: Otodome, a single waterfall, and Shiraito,... Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:27:37 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=69 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=68 Overview of today:The sleek Shinkansen Kodama #637 zips me from Tokyo station to Odawara. I switch trains to the local train to Shin-Matsuda, a small station, and then take a spectacular ride to Gotemba. First stop: a taxi ride to a quiet tour of the Kirin... Mon, 31 May 2010 09:34:06 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=68 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=67 Overview of today:After a fine breakfast at Hotel Associa Shizuoka, I meet my Volunteer guide for the morning. We take a bus into the hills to Nihondaira with views over the Suruga Bay. Mt. Fuji dominates our attention. We walk around a bit, then go up the... Thu, 06 May 2010 09:55:57 +0900 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=67