Dateline: November 18, 2008 The Green Bus Today we rode on the Fukuoka City Loop Bus (“Green Bus for Sightseeing”) around town while hirosan was at work. True to its name, the driver shut the bus off whenever we stopped at red lights. We’d learn from hirosan a little later that this is what most [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Japan Trip – Day 11: Green Bus in Hakata
Posted in Japan, Travel on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Japan Trip – Day 10: Hakata
Posted in Japan, Travel on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dateline: November 17, 2008 Travel day! Checkout was at 10 am but our train didn’t leave until 1:11 pm (we sure planned that one well!) so we had some to kill. We wandered down to Nagoya Station and found a place in the shade on the second floor balcony of the JR Towers where some [...]
Japan Trip – Day 9: Kyoto
Posted in Japan, Travel on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dateline: November 16, 2008 Today we’d be doing a day trip to Kyoto. But, before we left Nagoya, we stopped off at the Station Master’s office to grab our written instructions for our tickets to Hakata that we’d requested the night before. As you may recall, we had a similar issue getting today’s Kyoto tickets [...]
Japan Trip – Day 8: Inuyama
Posted in Japan, Travel on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dateline: November 15, 2008 Up in the morning to catch some breakfast, and this was the only hotel during the trip where breakfast was included. I even had some soup! The plan for today was to hang out with another of my brother’s flickr contacts, Tabito, and see some sights. By the end of today’s [...]
