"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> that you are missing, I suggest you get out of town and do some
> travelling during the few remaining days that you remain here.

Don't have money.  Is there a place I can go cheaply, that isn't some
tourist trap, that really is the countryside?  It has to be something other
than foreigner-hating onsen or temples with their dirty stone statues.

> differential), and if nothing else, at least you would be offline.

Some people are under the impression that I do nothing but sit at the PC all
day.  As a matter of fact, I have already been to all the obvious places in
Tokyo, including the museums.  I just haven't found anything interesting.

> and Wakkanai. For the most part the whole concrete metropolis consists
> of buckletloads of small, fairly insular little urban villages that have
> simply grown into each other. If you ger lucky, you might even spot a
> big yellow hato bus and be able to jot down the phone number or url.

People talk about this yellow bus a lot.  Is there anything special about
it, or is it just going on a tour of the concrete metropolis with its small,
fairly insular little urban villages that have simply grown into each other?