October 19, 2025October 19, 2025 by admin

Relaxing in Japan

Himeji

I rented a car in this area and drove around for four days to some places I have not been in 48 years. I highly recommend going to the Japan Seaside from the Pacific side if you get the chance. The area around here is extremely beautiful and not over developed.

Beautiful natural gardens

Relaxing in Japan breakfast — The buffet breakfast you can get in some hotels can be very filling but you need to understand how to put the different ingredients together.

Japanese style spaghetti — This was one of the least appetizing breakfastS with a very dry spaghetti and meatballs but the salad was OK.

Smoking accommodations Relaxing in Japan — Most of the restaurants now do not allow smoking inside but make provisions for the smoking addicts

Station piano — This countryside station copied the French idea of placing a piano for customers to enjoy. It’s a nice addition

Rice Fields — The race fields are really beautiful in September

Himeji Castle — Himeji castle from the station

Good beer Relaxing in Japan — My second favorite beer

Korean food — Nice food at the Korean restaurant

Nice lunch — For me this was a plentiful lunch

Tottori

Sand museum Tottori — This is at the sand museum. Artist from all over the world create these amazing structures out of sand

Sand dunes — These are the famous sand dunes

Popular for tourists — Now a very popular tourist destination

Map — De sand dunes map

Dunes map of Japan — This map spots the different sand dunes in Japan, large and small

Mountain side — The beautiful mountain side

Mitokusan — Map of Mitokusan where I almost lost my life 48 years ago

National treasure — This is a “national treasure”. Look at the photos below and you will see why it is so interesting

Mountain temple — Difficult access

Secluded — Almost the ultimate in seclusion

Mountain top temple — Ron and I climbed all the way up to this temple on the mountain when the access gate was closed, climbing up was banned because the snow was 3 feet deep.

Full service gas — Full service gas stations are still the thing

Daisen tori — I came to this restaurant for the famous open range chicken, Daisen Tori

Delicious food — Very delicious countryside food

Okayama

Tonkatsu — One of my favorites, TONKATSU

Hotel — The hotel on the way back was not expensive, very new and clean 20 foot containers

Wakayama

Having dinner with an old friend at a very nice restaurant

Tokyo

Fishing — Back in Tokyo with good friends from the software industry. This is a restaurant where you fish for your food and look what my friend caught. I was the net boy

Italian beer — A new Italian addition to the beer industry

Low riders — Low riders near my hotel

Shibuya — All the crazy construction going on in Shibuya. It’s very hard to find your way around. Get prepared to get lost. And the number of people in this area is just unbelievable now

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