Reflecting on Japan
I can’t believe a month has passed since Alex and I returned from our Japanese adventure! I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while but have been quite […]
I can’t believe a month has passed since Alex and I returned from our Japanese adventure! I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while but have been quite […]
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 […]
As we were only there for two weeks, we weren’t able to try everything that Japan had to offer (unfortunately!) but we did our best. We managed to have all […]
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 […]
Here is the final H or H for our Japan trip. The first of these isn’t actually a hostel but I’m going to include it here anyway. Yamatoya Honten Ryokan, […]
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 Nara at around midday for Osaka and after negotiating yet another type of subway system, we made it to our hotel (note: hotel not hostel). We were pretty […]
Nagasaki Akari International Hostel, Nagasaki This was a small hostel just beside the river in Nagasaki, offering private rooms and mixed dorms. It was absolutely freezing inside and I was […]
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 […]