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kuno@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (Yasushi Kuno) writes:

>davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>> I live in Japan, but IMHO summer isn't such a good time to take a
>> vacation as that's when everybody else does! High prices, crowded,
>> hot. Not for me...

>    Well, I admit, but if I got vacation on, say september, there
>will be so few people that I might feel I was left behind from ohters...

All depends on what you want, I guess. My idea of a vacation is to
"get away from it all" and I find the easiest way to do that in
Japan is to stay home! In the U.S. I would go camping in the
mountains or the desesrt or something like that. 

>Yes, I guess it IS the reason many Japanese take vacation around the
>same period.  But I also admit that having vacation around the O-Bon
>period (around 8/15) and the Golden Week (in May) is too foolish!

It all depends on the purpose, I guess...

>P.S. If you spend your vacation in Nagano perf. (highland) or
>     Hokkaido, you will feel rather comfortable.  The hotels are
>     expensive?  How about the Youth Hostels?  (Well, I have used
>     Youth Hostels in Japan so many times while I was a student,
>     but it's long since then...)

The relatively few times I've gone some place I've stayed in
minshuku (sp?) or youth hostels. I suppose Nagaono or Hokkaido would
be significantly different and worth the effort (not to mention the
cost). But I enjoy going for walks in the bamboo forest and to local
temples and such every day, and I'm lucky enough to have a friend
with a yacht and get to go sailing maybe once a month, so I don't
feel pressed to go someplace else. 

Dave

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