Nez and Suzi does Japan, part i: Welcome to Sado

It would be nice if you could click on these pictures above, but you can't.

I've been meaning to get the finger out since August, finally a New Year's resolution has given me a boot up the backside, which must have dislodged the digit, and I'm getting round to putting some pics up from Nezi and Suzs' trip last summer. For the moment I'm going to get the pictures up, which is probably what most people want to see, and I'll add some real value with my 2 cents later.

These pics are from the first leg of Nezi and Suzs' holiday to Japan. The trip was a three legged beast, could have even been Jake the peg (even though I was always suspicious about the middle stump), where leg two is the trip to Tokyo and some of the city and the last is Summer Sonic the music festival, which ended their time in the land of the rising sun on a loud, high note.

Sorry, enough waffle.

A couple of beers on the ferry to Sado:








Trip to Aikawa, on west coast of island. No, Suzi isn't facinated by Japanese concrete, a Stag beetle is facing off my mini van:






Aikawa. This is the spot where a samurai commited ritual suicide, called sepuku in Japanese, all making for a great tourist spot. Who needs Disney Land? This is Disney Breath Land. Bah, but actually there's a good story about this, which I'll add later:










Barbeque in Ryostu (small port town on the east of the island, in the off chance that you ever wash up on Sado's shores):












Commeth the hour, commeth the piano man, and Dolly Parton. Karaoke round one:












Chokokuji Temple:





























Information about Chokokuji temple:








Daimaru and statues:










Ahem, a picnic, another temple, a dead snake, monkey bikes and a vending machine: