Journey in Japan Part 27: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves
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Journey in Japan Part 27: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves

I have to stroll 10 mins from my Nagoya resort to a differenthotel with my laundry. The rainfall is hard, the extremely tropical storm has made landfall, as well as the rainfall and wind are more powerful than I have actually ever experienced. Yet I require to do my laundry. The sky outside is the…

Journey in Japan Part 25: Internet cafs, Irish bars
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Journey in Japan Part 25: Internet cafs, Irish bars

Grilled fish of the day issalmon for the 3rd day straight. After breakfast, I return to my room as well as return my area to a state that looks specifically as it did before I got here. A resort practice of mine. After that, I check-out as well as head to Popeye Media Caf to…

Journey in Japan Part 26: Robot women, fast cars, voodoo dolls, and dinosaurs
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Journey in Japan Part 26: Robot women, fast cars, voodoo dolls, and dinosaurs

The queue for the Nagoya City Scientific research Gallery spills from the door. Inside there is a snaked line that runs eight rows deep. A display on the wall informs me that whenever slot for the globes largest Planetarium have actually sold out, as well as it isn’t also 11 am. A pity, this was…

Studio Ghibli Plans Theme Park for Nagoya
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Studio Ghibli Plans Theme Park for Nagoya

Tokyo has Disney and also Fuji-Q, Osaka has USJ and Kyoto is a social heaven, that leaves Nagoya with errr Lego Land, which apparently is still struggling to increase its presence rates! So what concerning Studio Ghibli? Luckily for Nagoya, Workshop Ghibli has actually lately revealed they will develop a brand-new amusement park in Aichi…

Streamlined and Safer Shinkansens for the Future
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Streamlined and Safer Shinkansens for the Future

2020 and also the Tokyo Olympics are simply around the bend. In A Similar Way, JRs (Japan Railways) newest streamlined and also safer shinkansens (bullet trains) is quickly coming close to as well. In the following couple of years, they are aiming to continue innovation with existing versions, in regards to setting and power effectiveness….

Journey in Japan Part 28: The Other Side of the Tracks
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Journey in Japan Part 28: The Other Side of the Tracks

I say goodbye toNagoya after 5 days, 3 of which I felt I might have done a lotmore with my time. I spend 1950 as well as two hourstravelling.During the train ride I review over half of my brand-new publication, South of the Border, West of the Sun. Coincidentally, around the same time that I…