Interesting Web Places

Useful Information for Surviving in Japan

• Hyperdia, a JR Railway information system in romanji
• Wadoku, a very good German-Japanese online dictionary
• Earthquake Information can tell you whether you have just been dreaming or whether you have experienced a real earthquake

Other Pages about Mountaineering in Japan

• cjw ~.::.~ hiking and climbing in Japan, elaborate desxcriptions of tours in the Japanese Alps
• Mountains in Japan, descriptions to a few hikes, a list of Japan's highest mountains
• James and Jules' Alternative Japanese Mountain Guide

Miscellanea

• the weather at my current position, Kyoto's Kita-ku
• life and death -- some beginners' exercises in Go
• Sakurazensen, the cherry-blossom forecast; the links to English pages just lead to translators whose output is not any easier to understand than the original Japanese

For those who like to solve Chess puzzles
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