On Apr 8, 10:04 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 1:41 am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 26, 10:29 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Mar 25, 1:36 am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Outside of the major league teams, what options are there for going to
> > > > see some competitive baseball? I'll be heading to Himeji in late May
> > > > (finally) and my son wants to go see a baseball game. I know there are
> > > > leagues, but Google didn't help me too much (though I didn't look
> > > > beyond the third page of results).
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> > > > All help appreciated. And if anyone is going to be in/near Himeji let
> > > > me know; I should be there the last two weeks of May.
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> > > I will be having 3 pints of Guinness and a whiskey (maybe more than
> > > one, no promises can be made at this stage) in Hosanah in Himeji on
> > > June 14th (from around 9.15pm - howzat for precision?). Is that too
> > > late?
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> > You'll be about two weeks too late to get together; I leave on 5/31,
> > unless I win the lottery between now and then. I, too, will be in
> > Hossanah a time or two; there's evidently a new gaigin bar somewhere
> > in Himeji that I might check out, but I kinda like Hossanah's
> > atmosphere.
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> What about a long lazy and more than somewhat boozy & decadent lunch
> in Kobe on the 27th? Its a Tuesday. Thats close to Himeji, and what
> else could there be to do?
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That'll work for me; email me your contact info: worthj1970 at
yahoo.com. If you know a good place let me know; if not I'll ask my
Austrian friend who lives there. He surely knows a restaurant that has
real beer. I think I'll do some hiking while there; I haven't been to
Nunobiki in ages, and I want to see if the trail has improved from
there to the reservoir and beyond. Hopefully it hasn't; that's what
made it a good trail. I used to go visit David Jack at Kansai Time
Out, but I don't know if he's in town much now that KTO has new
owners.

> > Did you go to Mt. Masui when you were in Himeji (at some time or
> > other)? There's a temple up there and I think I'll hike up and then
> > walk from there to Hiromine, and maybe beyond (the trail evidently
> > goes to some golf course on the far side). It's getting tough for me
> > to find out of the way places to go in Himeji. When you've visited the
> > water museum north of town you know you've done a bit too much.
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> Indeed. At some stage or other I would to go the onsen up further
> north. Shiota or sumthin. And spend some time in the mountains of
> Hyogo, where dialects run right off the scale.- Hide quoted text -
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My mom-in-law works in one of those wide-spot-in-the-road onsen
(yumenoi, maybe). The thought of the mother-in-law or her friends
peeking in on my makes me a bit nervous. The pictures look nice,
though.

John W.