Mt Fuji! (Shinjuki)
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Jumping on the metro to Shinjuki, we headed for the Tokyo local government building, which has a free observatory on the 45th floor. From here, the view of Mt. Fuji was absolutely stunning - we hadWeiterlesen
Jumping on the metro to Shinjuki, we headed for the Tokyo local government building, which has a free observatory on the 45th floor. From here, the view of Mt. Fuji was absolutely stunning - we hadWeiterlesen
The final stop for the morning was the Akasaka Palace - something like Versailles crossed with Buckingham Palace. After a false start (getting off a station too early on the metro) we walked theWeiterlesen
Our metro tickets got us a good way out of Tokyo but not to the cruise port. So we had to get off at Meguro metro and buy a train ticket to Nihon-Odori. Annoyingly we would actually be getting back onWeiterlesen
After much deliberation, and a very rough night on the seas, we decided the cruise ship's $159pp trip to Matsushima Bay was more than we could countenance. So instead, we disembarked after breakfastWeiterlesen
On our way back to the ship, we climbed the big hill (as is our cruise tradition) in Ishinomaki up to Hiyoriyama Park. The park overlooks the shore of Ishinomaki where the tsunami hit. Today buildingWeiterlesen
After a far calmer night, we arrived into Hakodate on Hokkaido greeted by a local girls school dancing on the pier. The ship's shuttle bus dropped us at the station and after a shaky start (couldn'tWeiterlesen
Niigata port was a new stop for the ship we are on...and we weren't entirely sure why as it didn't seem to have a lot going for it. After some free WiFi research on the dockside, we decided to get theWeiterlesen
After returning to the ship yesterday, we triumphed at trivia before dinner! Today was a chilled day at sea - eating too much, reading lots and sleeping. We did take a class in learning JapaneseWeiterlesen
Early arrival into South Korea today. Once off and through immigration, we used took the great metro tour of Busan...meaning we spent a lot of time on the metro and achieving little! Largely becauseWeiterlesen
A somewhat lackadaisical start to the day - we had to wait to be called for Japanese immigration but we were group 10. We waited for the best part of an hour after docking and they were only at groupWeiterlesen