Tateyama, Korobe Trip      立山黑部之旅

We joined a package tour with 5 days 4 nights to Taeyama, Korobe (in the middle of Japan) due to it's more convenience and cheaper than we arrange the trip ourselves.

• First Day-we arrived at Nagoya airport which located in the Chubu region - see "D" (05/31/2006):

The 1st day we stayed in the OGAKI-EKIMAE APA hotel, which located in GiFu Prefecture(歧阜縣),  we enjoy our little hot spring on the top of the hotel (see picture below), I'm glad that we can take our shower here due to our room is extremely small, I'm hardly to unpack my luggage or turn myself around in my little single room.

We took the late flight to Japan, so when we arrive this hotel, it already around 10:00pm, therefore, we only went to the convenient store to buy some drink. The tour guide actually invited us to the Japanese bar (居酒屋). Unfortunately, I was too tired, so I didn't go with them. If you have a chance to visit Japan, you must invite a local people to take you to experience the Japanese bar. This is the place for the people who didn't want to go home directly after work, they usually will come to this place, and have saki (Japanese wine), or beers with colleagues, friends, or chatting with the bar owner if you visit alone. I think it just like British pub, no matter where you're from in the world, people will need to find someone to talk to, and drink wine/beers to make themselves drunk and try to forget the bad things have been happened to them. So I'm sure if you visit these places, you won't complain that "I ain't even got no one to talk to!"

 常常朋友都會建議如果到日本，應該去去居酒屋，與老闆聊聊天，了解一下當地的風俗民俗，吃吃當地小吃，喝喝清酒，很可惜這次沒機會去，去年到東京有嘗試過，覺得蠻有趣的，它不是一個讓你可以吃到飽的地方，只是下班時與朋友喝酒，然後彼此抱怨一下工作的辛苦，因為回家後還是要再吃吃家裡準備好的飯菜。聽導遊說，其實價格不是很貴，所以下次去日本玩要嘗試看看哦！