Frankfurt to Tokyo
30 августа, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Finally!!! After an additional 8 hours in Frankfurt airport, a long flight to Beijing, a hasty wheelchair through the airport, a connection to Tokyo with a vision of the perfect cone of Mt Fuji aboveЧитать далее
Tokyo Day 1
31 августа, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Tokyo is enormous...we left the warm grey clouds to explore via the subway, visiting the Meiji ji Shinto shrine and park, acres of tropical woods with dark blue butterflies the size of your fist,Читать далее
Tokyo Day 1 - part 2
31 августа, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Shibuya Crossing, Shijuko, shrine, yakitori, the night
Tokyo Day 2
1 сентября, Япония ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Alps to Matsumoto
2 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Today we drove from Tokyo to Matsumoto via the Japanese Alps - the clouds covered most of Mt Fuji, its cone just occasionally peaking out, but of course notarized with snow, just grey and end ofЧитать далее
Matsumoto Castle, a post town and a ryokan
3 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Awake to roll up the futons and breakfast on fresh pastries and strange vending machine drinks in the castle park..Matsumoto Castle is from 1594 and is one of Japan's big ones - six wooden floors - IЧитать далее
Kiso valley towns to Kyoto
4 сентября, Япония ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
Another interesting breakfast (Rico didn't even have rice this time), and off down to Kyoto via two more Edo-era post towns, mountain passes, waterfalls and woods - the Nakaswndo Trail connecting EdoЧитать далее
Kyoto, imperial capital..
5 сентября, Япония ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Kyoto, thousand-year capital, spiritual and cultural centre of Japan, storied and mythical, maybe a bit like ancient Rome - full of shrines and temples built by emperors and warlords, politicalЧитать далее
Kyoto - imperial capital 2
5 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Because there was so much beauty to see..
Kyoto temples 1
6 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Eva gave me the gift of a day of temples and shrines whilst the boys explored the railway museum, meeting us for lunch and a couple of final temples. Eva, me and The Boot walked all day amongstЧитать далее
Kyoto temples 2
6 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Kyoto temples 3
6 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
There is more..
Kyoto finally
6 сентября, Япония ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Eva was very kind...
Nara to Naruto
7 сентября, Япония ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Last two temples in Kyoto - one at Rico's request, one a little Insta-famous (overcrowded and a little underwhelming). Then on to Nara, the first fixed capital of Japan in around 700 - but only for 70Читать далее
Whirlpools, rice fields, rain-green mountains
8 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
It poured tropical soft warm very wet rain...all green mountains, bright rice fields and wisps of cloud. We started with an onsen in the hotel overlooking Naruto Bridge, then slopped through the rainЧитать далее
Over the sea to Kyushu
9 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
A slow start in our mountain top home, after a night of tremendous storms, insects dropping from the wooden rafters, thunder rolling over the valley, rain so hard it felt as if we were sleeping underЧитать далее
Beppu's hells and old friends
10 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Beautiful onsen start to the day in Beppu, then a trip up the mountain ropeway which became a trip inside a cloud..Beppu is powered by geothermal activity, so steam gushes out of vents and chimneysЧитать далее
Memory lane in Miyakonojo
11 сентября, Япония ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Late brunch with the wonderful Jack and Yoko, with gorgeous daughter Wendy. Thoroughly spoilt, reiki and discussions til early afternoon. Then off to visit the school building where I lived and workedЧитать далее
Beaches, bento, rockets and dolls
12 сентября, Япония ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
A lovely day of friendship and experiences and stories.. Jack and Yoko took the day off and drove us to Uchinoura, Yoko's home town which I last visited 31 years ago. We stopped in the way at theЧитать далее
Kagoshima to Kumamoto
13 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
A tearful but joyful farewell to the Stangs after such a wonderful, inspiring time 30 years later..then on to the glories of Sakurajima, a volcano in a blue sea of islands, surrounded by unearthlyЧитать далее
Samurai, beauty, history and horror of Nagasaki
14 сентября, Япония ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Starting in Kumamoto Castle, home of the samurai, magnificent on the outside, sadly only in Japanese in the museum inside - then off via the ferry to Shimabara and another volcano and more greens toЧитать далее
Nagasaki evening
14 сентября, Япония ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The 360 degree view from Mount Insa
The floating torii and red-capped Buddhas
15–22 сент., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Leaving lively Nagasaki and its stunning natural setting, leaving the tropical wilds of Kyushu, to drive 5 hours back up on the long haul to Tokyo..We took the ferry over to Miyajima in Hiroshima BayЧитать далее
Red torii and buddhas 2
15 сентября, Япония ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Just too many photo opportunities...despite the tourists, there is still something very spiritual and special about this green island..
Hiroshima, Hijemi, drunk table tennis
16 сентября, Япония ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
We drove off the island with its green and shrines and deer on a ferry to ourselves, en route to Hiroshima and its Peace Park and okonomiyaki. Then on through green, rain, mountains and rice fields toЧитать далее
Путешественник🥳 yeah - danke für die App ❤️❤️ freue mich so mit euch auf die Reise zu gehen 😍
ПутешественникWow, ich freue mich auch mit euch unterwegs zu sein!!! Good luck!