TheTechMatterAnswer: Japan Travel & Internet survival guide

Kanazawa is well-known with geisha districts other than Kyoto. However, having a party with geisha is costly. The cost for a party with geisha varies depending on the number of geisha, food, drink, hours, and so on. Generally speaking, you might be able to have a party with geisha beginning at about $400 per person.

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Yesterday here in Italy in many areas it snowed a lot and the temperature dropped to -13 degrees Celsius at night and -4 on day. It was been a widespread snow and reached areas in the Po valley (“Pianura Padana”) where the last snowing of this intensity occurred only in 2001. The landscape has become [...]

You can visit the various places in Japan in two main ways: alone or accompanied by a guide.

For “alone” I mean “you and the group of people who made the journey with you”.

If you came from your country really alone then it is really good that at least half the days of your stay include [...]

The following is a list of material to have during the trip.

Is recommended to do a verification of the availability of this materials at least 2 days before departure, to have time to fix any shortcomings.

I suggest to make a mental simulation of travel to waste less time possible during your holiday.

The quantity of [...]

I apologize for the delay in updating the site but from some days I have been very busy with work
(preparation of an advanced course about PLC, elections of Delta Po Adige drainage consortium, etc. …).
This time I propose a list of things to do before you leave.
Remember that the Japan Travel Guide should help for [...]

The decision, should be based primarily on your budget. Depending on the  available money you can choose hotels more or less suitable to our needs. Generally, the more money you have available and the better the treatment, but for relatively low quantity (maximum 100 euros per night per person) the the cost dependence is not [...]

Today I added video streaming feature to my blog, so, I decided for the first “video time” to present you a very short film extracted from documentary we realized at Tokyo in this year travel.

I selected a video of Gundam Statue in Shiokaze park located in the Odaiba Island of Tokyo. The statue now doesn’t [...]

An onsen is a Japanese bath.
A rotemburo is an outdoor onsen.

An onsen is not used for washing but for relaxing. Should be considered a kind of sauna because the water temperature reaches 42 degrees centigrade, so you can not stay too long in the tub.

There are two types of onsen depending on the water type [...]

Before talking about food and restaurants in Japan, I advance you that if you are Italian, anywhere in the world (including France) you are generally will eat worse than in your country.
So if you are Italian, products such as Grana Padano, Parmigiano Reggiano, quality cheese , real-time sliced salumi, vegetables and fresh fruit in huge [...]

Given that in the Japanese Ryokan (traditional hotels) usually there is a small room that contains only the toilet and that to enter in this room you must wear special slippers at the entrance, in Japan there are two types of toilet, defined of Japanese style (or traditional) and Western style.
Those in traditional style have [...]