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Originally Posted by samurai007
That's too bad. Maybe you can go during spring break? Are you a JET?
I've mentioned it before, but my eastern Japan trip went like this:
Lake Biwa - Kanazawa -Takayama - Japan Alps - Matsumoto - Tokyo - Nikko - home. I actually had been planning to spend another day or 2 seeing Hakone, Nagoya, and other sights as I looped back toward Wakayama-ken along the Pacific Ocean, but I wasn't feeling well myself, so I just went straight home in 1 looong trip.
And on my trip through western Japan, I started out feeling fine as well, but I caught a cold hiking to the top of the mountain in the middle of Miyajima Island. (The picture of the trail on the sign showed a nice path with deer alongside it, meadows, etc. No, it was a STEEP climb that took over 1 1/2 hours, and it rained partway up!) So I was sick from the next day, all through my time on Kyushu, until I soaked in the hot waters of Dogo Onsen. The legends say it has healing properties, and it really worked for me! When I woke the next morning, I was at least 90% better!
Anyway, good luck on getting there someday!
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No am not JET. I'm a "salary(wo)man"
I don't have that much break.
I've been to lake biwa though during one of our dragon boat competition, but not yet on those other areas..
be heading to biwako valley this weekend ( thank god for 3-day holiday) hopefully we will have fun in the snow ( no skiing or snowboarding for me )
yeah Dogo Onsen is really really nice .. I wish I could go back there again ..