Bathing in Japan: The naked truth
When travelling and staying in hostels you accept that you probably won’t be seeing a bath on your journey, but after hours of trekking around a city, town or village […]
When travelling and staying in hostels you accept that you probably won’t be seeing a bath on your journey, but after hours of trekking around a city, town or village […]
We took our last Shinkansen (a.k.a. bullet train) to Tokyo and were delighted to spot Mount Fuji on our way back! When we arrived, we hopped on the metro and […]
I had really been looking forward to Kyoto, not just after reading Memoirs of a Geisha, but because I knew that it was a slower-paced, more traditional area and our […]
We left Hiroshima at about 10:30 in the morning and took the train to Nara. After dropping our bags at the hostel, we headed straight out towards Nara Park. The […]
It was an early rise for our journey to Hiroshima. We were up and out by 8:15 to catch the tram to the station. Nearly 3 hours and 2 trains […]
We left Tokyo at about 10.30am and took the first of three trains to Nagasaki. The journey took over 7.5 hours and we arrived at about 7pm. We had to […]
You can’t come to Japan without visiting Mount Fuji…so we headed back to Tokyo from Nikko at about 8am, left our bags in lockers at Tokyo station and got the […]
I’d like to tell you a story. A story about Japan’s Grand Master of coins. It all started on the Romantic Highway… Day 3 in Japan, or day 2 depending […]
Well, what a mad couple of days we’ve had! The flights were fine, though there was some pretty severe turbulence on the first flight (London to Istanbul)…much like sitting on […]
Japan isn’t one of those countries that where you can just rock up and wing it…there are a few things that it’s important to do or check before you go. Check […]