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We have friends and family travelling to Japan in the next couple of weeks so we thought we would create a list of useful things to keep in mind… Don’t panic Japan drives on the left so you won’t accidentally get yourself run over 🙂 Subways: Keep an eye out for where the escalators and…
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Currently Madkiwi and I are planespotting at Narita Airport. Our Air NZ flight is just taxing into its gate as I type. Domo Arigato Goziamasu Japan for a great couple of weeks – it has been a rippa (excellent) experience in your country. Travelling in Japan feels like one of the safest experiences I have…
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Cherry Blossom season was scheduled to commend on Friday 22 March in Tokyo. We think it might be a few days late due to a sudden cold snap over the last few days. However, we couldn’t be in Tokyo this week without at least trying to see to cherry blossom so today in honour of…
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Today is our penultimate day in Tokyo. Unfortunately it has been a bit cold, grey and drizzly so a bit harder to get around with dodging umbrellas and stuff. Hotels will often have an umbrella you can borrow if you get caught short so it is worth asking the question. After breakfast we decided to…
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Learning our lesson from last time, we took Alice’s advice and pre-purchased our tickets to the Tokyo Skytree this morning. This was a much more efficient process where we simply turned up (just in time), went through the advanced purchase line, collected our tickets within about 5 minutes and were at the lift ready to…
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Travel day today- Kyoto to Tokyo on the Shinkansen. We did see snow flakes this morning before we left our local breakfast cafe. Looking forward to marginally warmer temperatures in Tokyo. We saw Fuji on the way into Tokyo – it was really close with not much cloud but too hard to photograph at 260kph.…
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Today we had tickets to check out the local Samurai and Ninja Museum but we had some time beforehand and went out to the Fushimi Shrine. This is the one with the path of orange gates. We didn’t have the two hours to do the the walk but you get the gist. Then over to…
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Today’s plan was to head out to the Bamboo Forest. It is only about 20 minutes from central Kyoto and is easily accessible by train. Of course this mean’s every man and his dog is headed out there today. We were lucky with the weather again so it was nice to walk through the local…
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So today we started early with a tram, train, bus, Superjet and streetcar back to Hiroshima Station. The Superjet went via Kure which are the naval shipyards… Wandered around Hiroshima Station waiting for our train time to Shin-Osaka. After some breakfast we did a bit of window shopping – cat and dog treats for the…
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It was raining a lot in Matsuyama today. Made it a bit more difficult to get around particularly as I have a bit of a cold/hayfever at the moment. So the morning started with breakfast (just a warning the more rural you get the worse the coffee is) and a visit to a “Drug Store”…
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