10 hour fight to Narita
3月31日〜4月1日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 21 °C
Easy, comfortable flight got is to Tokyo, Narita airport at 9pm the next day. Booked a room near the airport to head to Osaka in the morning. No exciting meals yet.
Narita
4月1日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Narita to Osaka
4月1日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Navigated the bullet train to Osaka. Picked up Bento boxes for the ride. Only a slight hitch. Luckily I stuck my foot in the door and halted the train. No harm no foul. Amazing fast and smooth.もっと詳しく
Osaka day 2
4月2日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Coffee at the coffee bar in our hotel. This is a cool hotel.
First stop Komura market. One food stall after another. We started with Toro, oysters and scallops. Great choice. The Toro was phenomenal.もっと詳しく
Osaka day 4
4月3日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Covered lots of ground today. Started around the neighborhood to see moss statues and the cement little people.
Another stop at Kumara market for another round of seafood. We'll be back.
Walked toもっと詳しく
Osaka Day 4
4月4日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
Osaka museum of housing and living. Very cool life size recreation of a neighborhood in Osaka in the 1830's. We'll done with lots of cool pictures, diaramas and full size exhibits. Sorry, no pictures.もっと詳しく
Osaka day 5
4月5日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Happy Easter! - 11am service at the Lifehouse international church. Young vibrant service and message.
Walked along Okowa river. Huge cherry blossom festival. So many people picnicking under theもっと詳しく
O aka day 6
4月6日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Visited a shrine with a luxury hotel built on top of it. Then back to Kuromon market for sushi and snacks. 2nd time eating the tuna rice ball which is super good. Sold at convenience stores andもっと詳しく
First day on the Komano Kodo
4月7日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 9 °C
Left Osaka early and navigated 3 trains to Shimizu-ura where we started our pilgrimage. We left the crowds behind as we hiked beautiful landscapes of citrus groves, bamboo and pines. Some pretty steepもっと詳しく
KK day 2 Yuasa to Hidaka
4月8日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Slept well and woke up to a delicious Bento Box breakfast. After hugging our host goodbye we were picked up by taxi and does of at our next starting point, Goose Oji Ruins.
Not a long walk but it wasもっと詳しく
K. K.- day 3 Takijiri to Takahara
4月9日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Said goodbye to our hosts. Driven to Gobo Station where we took a train to the start of our next leg in Takahara.
Starting to see many pilgrims as this is a traditional starting point.
Today was lessもっと詳しく
KK day 4 - we're wet dual pilgrims!!!
4月10日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Heavy rain forecasted all day so our plans changed. We still walked but a shorter route. We made it to 5 shrines, enough to qualify and obtain our dual pilgrim certificate.
Left our guest house afterもっと詳しく
Wrapping up the Komano Kodo
4月11日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Left our amazing hotel and took a bus to Shingo to visit the Hayatama Grand Shrine. Not a lot of kms but a lot of steep stairs. Then we took a train and a bus to get to Nachi to see yet another shrineもっと詳しく
Extra Day Kii Kitsuura
4月12日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Decided to stay an extra night in this sleepy fishing village. So glad we did. We did change hotels as the one we were in was booked. So lucky as today's hotel was a lot less expensive. Not asもっと詳しく
Kii Katsuura to Nara
4月13日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Got up early for our tuna auction tour. Kii Katsuura produces the largest catch of tuna in Japan. We saw them auction 1500 tuna, there were 2 auctions that day; yellow tail, blue fin, big eye,もっと詳しく
Nara - yes deer
4月14日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Got an early start for us. Planned on a day of walking/hiking the expansive Nara Park and Nara Machi, the craft center with traditional houses.
We expected a small town but Nara is huge and we onlyもっと詳しく
Nara to Kyoto
4月15日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Left Nara at noon. Trained it to Kyoto. We're getting good at trains. Arrived to rain but we were able to check into our hotel early. Our extra bag was waiting for us. The baggage delivery service isもっと詳しく
Kyoto day 2
4月16日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Started the morning with a cooking class. Made 2 types of Ramen (miso & soy), gyoza and onigiri. Fun and yummy. Walked around the Gion district which is artsy and lively.
Mary had a sewing class, Iもっと詳しく
Kyoto - Day 3
4月17日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Early morning 5hr. walking tour got us going and out of the house by 7:30. Met our guide and we were please to find out it was just us.
Packed with sights including; the Golden Palace, the Bambooもっと詳しく
Kyoto -day4
4月18日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Slept in today. Took a bus to the Silver Pavilion and the Philosopher's Path. The Philosopher's Path is a 2km tranquil walk along a creek lined with trees and flowering plants. At the end we hiked upもっと詳しく
Kyoto - day 5, last day
4月19日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Out by 9 to catch the Romantic Train which goes up the Katsuura River. First stop was the largest model train layout in Japan. What a cool set up. So many things going on. Check out the accidentもっと詳しく
Kyoto to day 1 Tokyo - QUAKE!
4月20日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
After coffee by our little creek we caught the bullet train to Tokyo. Two hundred miles an hour! Our hopes of seeing Fuji were dashed. Either we slept through it or it was too cloudy.
Arrived inもっと詳しく
Tokyo day 2 - Breakfast at Tiffany's
4月21日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Figured out Tokyo's subway and made our way to Ginzo district for brunch at Tiffany's Tokyo flagship store. Really nice experience and the food was very good too.
We then walked an hour to theもっと詳しく
Tokyo - day 3 SURPRISE!
4月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Well, last night, sometime after 12 we realized we had Disney tickets for today. We put the date in our Google calendar before we left but since japan is 16 hours ahead it changed our date a dayもっと詳しく
Tokyo - day 4, rain, rain, go....
4月23日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Slept in and woke up to rain. Well we had a plan and we were going to stick to it. We did, and we got wet but things were a little less busy.
Went to the kitchenware street, which was so cool. Shopもっと詳しく






















































































































































































































































































































































































































































旅行者Actually, I got two of my convenience store bucket list items, an egg sando and a Tokyo banana (pastry with cream and a whole banana) both delish!
旅行者What an exciting trip! Maybe you will hit cherry blossom season!
旅行者The end of our but they're everywhere