Booking hotels in Japan when you don’t have decent proficiency in the Japanese language is a headache. I didn’t have the stomach to have others suffer my very-rusty spoken Japanese, so I turned to Rakuten for all my lodging needs. Rakuten does have an English site, but I found the Japanese site to have a [...]
19 November 2009, Thursday Getting used to moving around. Currently in Kokura on the train bound for Hakata. Went to the fish market this morning and was underwhelmed. Thought of having a nice sushi breakfast there but there weren’t any places open, so got back to the station and bought an onigiri and some coffee [...]
Photos from Fukuoka, of Fukuoka
Fukuoka has been pretty decent so far, except I’m no longer in the mood for temples, shrines or gardens. Which pretty much makes being a tourist that much more difficult, and therefore, I take myself to a tourist spot and do half the recommended route then spend the other half taking photos of laundry and [...]