We will be exploring these 3 prefectures by first flying into Toyama airport, rent a car and drive through the destinations. It will be a 5D4N trip of wonderful nature and rich culture in central Japan. It really gave us all a lot of confidence flying with ANA! So after arriving at Toyama airport, we will need a car. Self-driving tours are gaining popularities as it gives us so much more freedom to travel at ease and our own pace without having to rush or keep time to catch the public transport. As you may know, Japanese expressway charges are quite expensive.
Comes closest to a Japanese Onsen... - Yunomori Onsen & Spa
Midnight at Cuppage Plaza: Where Japanese Salarymen Keep Loneliness at Bay
Records of men who have sex with men in Japan date back to ancient times. Western scholars have identified these as evidence of homosexuality in Japan. Though these relations had existed in Japan for millennia, they became most apparent to scholars during the Tokugawa or Edo period. This term was widely used to refer to some kind of male to male sex in a pre-modern era of Japan.
Birthday celebration - Himawari Japanese Restaurant
Photography by the author. But food is only half the story that makes Cuppage Plaza, a year-old building at Somerset, so wildly popular with the Japanese in Singapore. For the typical salaryman, after-hours is only complete with a round of booze and entertainment, and then getting somewhat drunk. So once the bill has been paid at the restaurants on the lower levels of Cuppage Plaza, the Japanese customers simply move to the higher floors of the eight-storey building.
The supposed highlight features "onsen concentrate" brought over from Japan's renowned Gero hot springs 42 degrees Celsius , while you can also take a tub in the milky-textured silk bath 40 degrees , soda bath 38 degrees or standup whirlpool bath 36 degrees , before cooling off in the cold bath a bracing 18 degrees. A few added goodies differentiate this from the other onsens in town, namely the hot stonebed room and degree-Celsius cool-down zone. Open daily 10am-midnight. The spa claims that the 50 essential vitamins and minerals contained within this sand will improve your immune system, stave off signs of aging, detoxify your system and improve blood circulation.