... Western coast. The trip from Iruma by road is approximately 500km, and easily takes 6 hours, even if going on the motorway. The road passes the Japanese Alps and the city of Nagano, which is well know ...
... end them to Sendai, where we would pick them up the next day.
So we left Narita without our stepladders to the youth hostel in Sendai and the navigation system proposed us to use the motorway the whole t ...
... d out that it was a hybrid car and started silently using its electric motor.
When we left Fukuoka it was already dark and Japan look like we knew it from our last trip: a black landscape seen from the mot ...
... t the car started… Somehow I couldn’t her the engine when starting to drive, which is no wonder as it is a hybrid car. But that we learned many kilometers later on the motorway. Driving to Beppu was t ...
... the motorway, where we all had a burger or a sandwich to get some energy for the next exhausting part of the trip: a visit to the IAF museum at Hatzerim. On the way there we also saw our first IAF aircraf ...
... cause of the 'No parking'-signs around and mainly because of the fact that we were really fed up with this city! So we decided to leave the city (and never come back…) and stopped at the next rest area ...
... coincided with the 45th anniversary of the site. It is hard to imagine that many people as the access was only permitted to employees and their families and friends, but a massive traffic jam on the motorway ...
