Preview of Byrnedm's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Nikko, Japan Entry Title: "Shinkansen to a Ryokan" Entry: "A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving - Lao Tzu Faster than a speeding bullet? Not quite So after 4 nights in Tokyo we used the first day of our 7-day Japan Rail Pass (a bargain of a pass only available outside Japan that gives unlimited access to all lines of the Japan Railway system for a specified period) to head north to a little town (little by Japanese standards but still large by our standards) called Nikko. It was good to get out of the city, although the suburbs of Tokyo seemed to go on forever, even traveling at over 280km per hour. Which brings me on nicely to the major thrill for me of our first trip out of Tokyo - the trip on the Shinkansen, better known to you and me as the bullet train (so-called for the smooth, rounded design of the earliest trains). A trip on the bullet train is an eagerly anticipated part of any trip to the country. It was certainly something I was looking forward to well before I got here. Boys will be boys. It's hard to believe that it was 1964 when the first bullet trains hit the tracks in Japan, just in time for the 1964 Olympics held in Tokyo. 1964! Hey, I don't wanna be dissing home but we in Ireland, a supposed first World country and the present economic envy of ...
Friday, September 30, 2011
"Shinkansen to a Ryokan" Byrnedm's photos around Nikko, Japan (japanese style accommodation)
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Preview of Byrnedm's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Nikko, Japan Entry Title: "Shinkansen to a Ryokan" Entry: "A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving - Lao Tzu Faster than a speeding bullet? Not quite So after 4 nights in Tokyo we used the first day of our 7-day Japan Rail Pass (a bargain of a pass only available outside Japan that gives unlimited access to all lines of the Japan Railway system for a specified period) to head north to a little town (little by Japanese standards but still large by our standards) called Nikko. It was good to get out of the city, although the suburbs of Tokyo seemed to go on forever, even traveling at over 280km per hour. Which brings me on nicely to the major thrill for me of our first trip out of Tokyo - the trip on the Shinkansen, better known to you and me as the bullet train (so-called for the smooth, rounded design of the earliest trains). A trip on the bullet train is an eagerly anticipated part of any trip to the country. It was certainly something I was looking forward to well before I got here. Boys will be boys. It's hard to believe that it was 1964 when the first bullet trains hit the tracks in Japan, just in time for the 1964 Olympics held in Tokyo. 1964! Hey, I don't wanna be dissing home but we in Ireland, a supposed first World country and the present economic envy of ...
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Preview of Byrnedm's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Nikko, Japan Entry Title: "Shinkansen to a Ryokan" Entry: "A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving - Lao Tzu Faster than a speeding bullet? Not quite So after 4 nights in Tokyo we used the first day of our 7-day Japan Rail Pass (a bargain of a pass only available outside Japan that gives unlimited access to all lines of the Japan Railway system for a specified period) to head north to a little town (little by Japanese standards but still large by our standards) called Nikko. It was good to get out of the city, although the suburbs of Tokyo seemed to go on forever, even traveling at over 280km per hour. Which brings me on nicely to the major thrill for me of our first trip out of Tokyo - the trip on the Shinkansen, better known to you and me as the bullet train (so-called for the smooth, rounded design of the earliest trains). A trip on the bullet train is an eagerly anticipated part of any trip to the country. It was certainly something I was looking forward to well before I got here. Boys will be boys. It's hard to believe that it was 1964 when the first bullet trains hit the tracks in Japan, just in time for the 1964 Olympics held in Tokyo. 1964! Hey, I don't wanna be dissing home but we in Ireland, a supposed first World country and the present economic envy of ...
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