Kingsford-Smith to Narita
27 dicembre 2017, Giappone ⋅ ☀️ 8 °CHappy and excited despite the 5:00 am start. We are ready for our trip of a lifetime - 9 1/2 hours to Narita Airport, Tokyo !!!
Happy and excited despite the 5:00 am start. We are ready for our trip of a lifetime - 9 1/2 hours to Narita Airport, Tokyo !!!
Tokyo-ites are gearing up for the New Years holidays, and we are about to find out what the city is like at New Year...what is open, what is not, what is crowded, what is empty. We are staying theLeggi altro
Tonight we are settled in our cosy (tiny) AirBnB house in Ikebukuro - once we finally found it (see Japantrums from previous post) it seems like a great place to explore from and handily located aLeggi altro
Today we set off for a walk to see the Frank Lloyd Wright designed girls school Jiyugakuen Miyonichikan. It is now a museum - unfortunately closed for the New Year holidays. We took a walk around theLeggi altro
There were little flurries of snowflakes in Tokyo this morning. It took Henry and I a few seconds of wondering what the floating white things were before we realised - snow !!! After someLeggi altro
Today we lined up with hundreds of others at a shrine to wish for good fortune, and drink some more amazake. By way of contrast we also walked down Takeshita Street in Harajuku, home of all the mostLeggi altro
Today we explored Roppongi Hills, a modern and posh area of Tokyo. We went to the Mori Art Museum (modern art) which is on the 52nd floor of a sky-scraper which, although it is much shorter than TokyoLeggi altro
A challenging day and night. With some sadness, we checked out of our little AirBnb home in the morning to fill in time until our bus to Hiroshima at 10:00 pm. The obvious first stop was fluffyLeggi altro
Now this is a hard chapter to write. As a child growing up in the '70s and '80s, the Cold War and the nuclear threat were constantly there in the background of our lives. 6 August was a date weLeggi altro
After our emotional day in Hiroshima, and a couple of hours of train travel we were very happy to arrive in the very welcoming Uno Port Inn. This place has some of the feel of a youth hostel - aLeggi altro