Japan

  • Japan,  Travel

    Western Village

    Last location of the day. Funny thing: we had passed this theme park in the morning already without realising it. We did see Mount Rushmore and said to eachother ‘Let’s check that place out when we come back later today’. Indeed we were going to check it out. This theme park is built in a Wild West USA style. We parked our car at the far end of the old parking of the park. As soon as we had stopped an old man came out of his house and looked at us in a grumpy way. He said nothing and we pretended not to see him, got our backpacks from…

  • Japan,  Travel

    Strange Love Hotel

    The Strange Love Hotel, also known as the Fuurin Motel, is situated in a small town in the Chiba prefecture. It only had 10 rooms but each with a different theme such as ‘Medieval’ or ‘Typical Japanese’. Many rooms had their own spa’s (onsen-as they are called in Japan) and privat gardens. Getting into the place was our first struggle. It seemed pretty boarded up with barbwire all around the building also. The trees were a bit dangerous also. They had spikes all over their stems. Luckily I saw it in time before either of us held onto one to climb down a small slope to get to the building.…