Kagoshima pics are partly up.
Wow. My travel plans actually went off without a hitch, for once.
Got up at 8:00am, surprisingly for me. With some dilly-dallying, I was out the door of the hostel with a friendly goodbye from the owner and a free copy of the Daily Yomiuri by half-eight, and down at Kagoshima-chuo station [...]

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Today I visited THE END OF JAPAN!
 Well, nearly.
After an unenjoyable hour wasted getting lost on Kagoshima’s streetcar system, I finally caught a train for the 80 minute journey south to Yamakawa. Imagine a pincer of land with the tips pointing south: Kagoshima is roughly at the joint. Yamakawa is near the end of the left-hand claw, [...]

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In 1998 a man called Tim Schafer and his development team at Lucasarts created the last great adventure game, called Grim Fandango. I haven’t enough time to sing its praises: but suffice to say Grim is not only one of the finest games ever created, it is, in some ways, truly art.
Anyway, without going into too much detail about the story, [...]

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