"In hiragana: IWAKI. In your heart: Uwaki" Iwaki by manuelEB

Iwaki Travel Guide: 21 reviews and 65 photos

Only 6 cities...

The Japanese is said to be a very complicated language. Two syllabaries, chinese characters, roman letters, arabic numbers, morse code and another 50 systems must be mastered before you could read the letter where you are ordered to commit seppuku (harakiri, for barbaric christians). Tell me that it is not an advantage!!!!
Only six cities in Japan hold names written in the simple syllabary called hiragana. Iwaki is one of them, and alas, Tsukuba is another one. Even dumbs with doctoral degrees can recognize the charactersr for these two cities.

Pros and Cons

Pros:Beach and mountais
Cons:2 hours by car from Tsukuba
In a nutshell:Great place for outdoors

Last visit to Iwaki: Aug 2003
Intro Updated Sep 2, 2003
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The end? Sports & Outdoors (64)

From here, the sport activity to be described is simply. You spent 4 hours to get here. You are tired and you well know... more travel advice

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Wild_Orchid Feb 25, 2005 at 2:18 AM

m: why did the chicken cross the road on hanoi? wo1: to meet the cock on the other side wo2: to avoid bird flu!
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carolinaEspada Feb 2, 2005 at 8:07 PM

mensaje para mc, que la presentación del libro me quedó de PINK-ga. ya mandaré fotos glamorosas. y ahora sí me voy a dormir, queè sueño c
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Amitabh Jan 5, 2005 at 11:48 PM

Great Japanese pages. Earlier I dont know Japnaese is so complicated. You must be master of Japanese in all these years.
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Nighthawk2 Jul 19, 2004 at 3:27 AM

wauwtsj ... cool pictures :D byee!! jaco
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JourneyOf1 Jul 2, 2004 at 8:22 AM

You know I like the expression "dumbs" I usually call crazy drivers (for example) "dumb dumbs" in my head, but this is so much more compact. My new word for the day<<<<
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alza Apr 28, 2004 at 8:17 PM

I MEANT 'Hang in there!' -- god, I'm so confused! --hello! I'm no dumb with a doctoral degree but I don,t know the diff between any Japanese character. Anyway, I tried to email you twice now, and it's NOT working... so hand in there! love, lou
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andal13 Apr 24, 2004 at 10:19 AM

Bueeeeno... creo que con esto ya he cumplido con mi cuota de ejercicios por un par de meses... Una tiene que mantener su imagen de "chica Botero"!!!
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kenmerk Feb 6, 2004 at 7:13 PM

Nice Taki's there, Manuel, Another great outdoor adventure in the Mt. Tsukuba tradition... (marionettes, shakey ladders, and water listening..)
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Geisha_Girl Jan 25, 2004 at 6:31 PM

Those waterfalls are BEAUTIFUL.....and CONSISTENT!!! ;-)) Job well done! I'll be back for more !
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Efrika Sep 27, 2003 at 7:31 AM

pure natural beauty ! place to escape ! however I would certainly get lost when relying on those signs :-)