Oniko's Travel Diary: The Three Mountains (August 5-31, 1998) |
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Thursday August 27th, 1998
Today's the day to go to the last of the three sacred mountains, Mount Yudono. I had already arranged to keep my current hotel room for an additional night, so the plan was simple; leave most of my stuff at the hotel, visit Yudono, and return here tonight. So I packed only the essentials into my smaller travel bag, and double-checked my digital camera which was filled with rainwater at Mount Gassen yesterday. Want to talk about lucky? The camera still works, and the film from yesterday still has its pictures on it! Yay!
So I set out for Yudono... only to discover that it was likely to be an overnight trip, and that the first bus back tomorrow morning would be after checkout time at the hotel I was at. On the other hand, there's a hotel at Mount Yudono similar to the one near Mount Haguro that I stayed at a night ago, so tomorrow I'll catch a bus to that hotel and get a room there to drop my stuff at. Then I can climb Yudono with relatively little stuff, and have a room to come back to later at night.
UPDATE 2002: Previous to the Meiji Era government that took control in 1868, all businesses in Japan were based around homes and families. Everyone who worked in a business was considered family, whether or not they were biologically related. |
I've noticed that many titles and phrases in Japan are shortened to simpler 4 syllable words... this may be to make them easier to remember, or maybe cooler sounding; I really don't know why. But they do it! For a list of examples, Click Here! |
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