The Takayama Matsuri Festivals are regarded as one of the top three in the whole of Japan. The festival happens twice a year in Spring and in Autumn with the focus of the festival on the magnificent floats which are pulled through the streets of the town.
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Its a great feeling to be recognized and acknowledged by your neighbors when you are out and about and to be treated like a local by the places you frequent. It is such a nice feeling to have people genuinely say they are going to miss you when you leave. I feel exactly the same too,
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Rosie understands the Japanese and loves their perfection. She would definitely need to pick up her game if she lived here to attain this level of enlightened perfection which is on a whole new stratosphere of expectation from where she comes from.
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Japan, you also win the award for the cleanest, most spotless public toilets anywhere in the world. Plus, they are FREE….these are the loos I actually wouldn’t begrudge paying the odd 25c a use for….especially when there are so many freebies potentially going with it.
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