On Feb 20, 9:59 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 5:43 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > John W. wrote:
> > > On Feb 19, 1:09 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >> John W. wrote:
> > >>> Anyone know if there's a restoration going on or planned for later
> > >>> this year? I saw something in another forum that indicated this, but I
> > >>> don't see any news stories in English and I'm too impatient to
> > >>> decypher the Japanese news stories. Hopefully I'll finally get back to
> > >>> the inlaws this year, but it'll suck if the castle is under some
> > >>> renovation project and isn't completely open.
> > >> Fourth item, maybe?
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> > >>http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/english/himeji/node72.html#SECTION000...
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> > > The problem with that site is that it hasn't changed in years; it
> > > could be new information (I don't often go to that particular page)
> > > but since they're using HTML circa 1996 it's hard to be certain; if I
> > > were a go-getter I'd offer to redo that site but I'm not really a go-
> > > getter unless beer is directly involved. I went through the Himeji
> > > Kanko page (much nicer and more reliable:http://www.himeji-kanko.jp/en/index.html)
> > > and didn't see anything in English; my Japanese reading is crap so I
> > > might ask the BYJW to look at it later.
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> > There was something roughly equivalent on the Japanese page.  I thought
> > I saw a reference to the news being circa October of last year and
> > ass-umed.  Almost everything on the city seems to be kanko-oriented and
> > I didn't see much that would qualify as news in the good, solid five
> > minutes I devoted to it.
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> I broke down and emailed the tourist information folks and they said
> there's no restoration planned for this year. I probably could have
> done that first.

Well yes. But what is the point in doing things the easy way?