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Title:
Loco Travel: Inawashiro - Part 5 (Down the Mountain - Chillin' in the Cottage)
Description:
One of the highlights of my trip was hangin' out with an old Japanese guy and his Portuguese wife. They were the owners of this cottage, and unfortunately, I was too busy talking with them to shoot any footage of them. But I had some great conversations, got some great food, and enjoyed their amazing hot spring bath. It was great recovery after hiking up and back down Mt. Bandai in the rain. One of the interesting stories he told me was about the battle at Tsurugajyo in Aizu-Wakamatsu, which will be the topic of Part 6 in this series. It was the final battle that brought down the Tokugawa Shogunate for good and eased in the Meiji Restoration (around the Last Samurai time). The cottage owner's grandfather had fought at that battle and lost an arm there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boshin_War#Resistance_of_the_Northern_Coalition Apparently there are still some hard feelings between the Satsuma and Choshu families and the Matsudairas of the area. I'm not an expert on it at all, so if you know more about it, feel free to leave comments in this video or the next. In the next episode, I'll be out of Inawashiro and off to Aizu-Wakamatsu, just 30 minutes away. Stay tuned! (hehe - it's like I'm making an actual TV series or something. :P) Here's a link to the cottage I stayed at: http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~portugal/ The owners are Tomo and Nella - really awesome folks! ^_^ Tell 'em Philip sent you. ;) http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~portugal/owner.htm I like what Nella put as her age: ひ・み・つ :P
Author:
ToLokyo
Tags:
philip, cotsford, travel, inawashiro, bandai, fukushima, japan, hiking, outdoor, ヴィラポルトガル, 猪苗代,
Loco Travel: Inawashiro - Part 5 (Down the Mountain - Chillin' in the Cottage)
Description:
One of the highlights of my trip was hangin' out with an old Japanese guy and his Portuguese wife. They were the owners of this cottage, and unfortunately, I was too busy talking with them to shoot any footage of them. But I had some great conversations, got some great food, and enjoyed their amazing hot spring bath. It was great recovery after hiking up and back down Mt. Bandai in the rain. One of the interesting stories he told me was about the battle at Tsurugajyo in Aizu-Wakamatsu, which will be the topic of Part 6 in this series. It was the final battle that brought down the Tokugawa Shogunate for good and eased in the Meiji Restoration (around the Last Samurai time). The cottage owner's grandfather had fought at that battle and lost an arm there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boshin_War#Resistance_of_the_Northern_Coalition Apparently there are still some hard feelings between the Satsuma and Choshu families and the Matsudairas of the area. I'm not an expert on it at all, so if you know more about it, feel free to leave comments in this video or the next. In the next episode, I'll be out of Inawashiro and off to Aizu-Wakamatsu, just 30 minutes away. Stay tuned! (hehe - it's like I'm making an actual TV series or something. :P) Here's a link to the cottage I stayed at: http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~portugal/ The owners are Tomo and Nella - really awesome folks! ^_^ Tell 'em Philip sent you. ;) http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~portugal/owner.htm I like what Nella put as her age: ひ・み・つ :P
Author:
ToLokyo
Tags:
philip, cotsford, travel, inawashiro, bandai, fukushima, japan, hiking, outdoor, ヴィラポルトガル, 猪苗代,
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