Omurice
2024年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
One of the biggest attractions of Japan for Purva was having Omurice at a specific restaurant called Kichi Kichi Omurice in Kyoto. She had been following its chef on Instagram for a while.もっと詳しく
Tokyo National Museum
2024年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Divya visited the Tokyo National Museum, which is situated within the Ueno Park. On her way, she noticed that while the Sakura trees had blossomed more than our previous visit, it was still nowhereもっと詳しく
Tokyo Tower
2024年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
I found an Indian place after researching a fair bit. I realised Tokyo is far inferior to London when it comes to Indian food options. After narrowing down on a restaurant and failing to reserve itもっと詳しく
Until we meet again
2024年3月31日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
The week-long excursion with the family came to an end. Parents and Purva’s mom had their return flights on Sunday morning. Nishu and Purva had already left the previous evening. Divya and I splitもっと詳しく
Impromtu Karaoke
2024年3月31日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
We got some breakfast and found a place to store all our suitcases because we would only need our backpack for the two days in Fujikawaguchiko. We initially checked with our hotel if they could storeもっと詳しく
Fuji-san
2024年4月1日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
We were in Fujikawaguchiko, a small hilly town right next to Mt. Fuji (referred to as Fuji-san by the locals) and also the Kawaguchiko lake, one of the Fuji Five Lakes. Our main activity here wasもっと詳しく
Onsen
2024年4月1日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Our hotel in Fujikawaguchiko, called Rakuyu, had a lot of amenities to give its guests a traditional Ryokan experience. Our room had an area with the Tatami mats (with futon beds provided if we wantedもっと詳しく
Chureito Pagoda
2024年4月2日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C
We got up early and headed to the most popular spot for viewing Fuji-san, the Chureito Pagoda. The sky was completely clear, so we were excited to get there and see what the best view of Mt. Fujiもっと詳しく
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
2024年4月2日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Finally, it was time for the headline event of this entire trip. We heard from Shashank and Sadhvi that some of the Sakura trees in the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden were in full bloom. So afterもっと詳しく
Ueno at night
2024年4月2日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
We had already visited Ueno Park previously, but now went there to see the Sakura illumination at night. We strolled along the Sakura-dori avenue, which had Sakura trees lit up with lanterns. Theもっと詳しく
Chidorigafuchi moat
2024年4月3日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We woke up and headed towards Tokyo’s most sought after Sakura spot - Chidorigafuchi, a moat of water around Tokyo’s Imperial palace and gardens. It features cherry trees on both sides of theもっと詳しく
Miraikan
2024年4月3日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Since it was going to rain all afternoon and evening, we headed to Miraikan, a museum dedicated to emerging sciences and what the future might look like. It was on one end of Tokyo, so it was a bit ofもっと詳しく
Chicken ramen dinner
2024年4月3日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Divya specifically found a chicken ramen place which was well reviewed. It was called Kagura-ya. We didn’t have a reservation and didn’t know whether the place would let us in, but we decided toもっと詳しく
Sakura at its best
2024年4月3日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
We went back to Chidorigafuchi Moat, to witness its well hyped evening illumination. We knew this was bound to be good, because we had seen many pictures of it before our trip. But we were pleasantlyもっと詳しく
Tokyo DisneySea
2024年4月4日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
On the penultimate day of our trip, we spent the day in Tokyo DisneySea, the only such Disney theme park in the world (all others being Disneyland). We were joined by Shashank and Sadhvi. We reachedもっと詳しく
Sakura, sushi and shopping
2024年4月5日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
On the final day of our trip, we decided to go to our favourite Sakura spots one last time. We started with Ueno park, which we had not properly visited during daytime since the full bloom. The treesもっと詳しく
Meguro River
2024年4月5日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Our final Sakura spot of the trip was the Meguro river. This was on our list, and when Shashank and Sadhvi also recommended it, we decided to head there. We reached in the evening around 6pm, so itもっと詳しく
Last (but one) meal
2024年4月5日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
For our final meal of the trip, Divya found a well reviewed ramen place called Afuri Nakameguro, very close to the Meguro river, where we were already walking. We reached and had to wait for around 20もっと詳しく
Arigato Gozaimashita
2024年4月6日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Our four week long trip came to an end. We woke up early, packed our bags and headed for the airport. As we were in the cab (we were a bit late to take the train), we reflected on our trip andもっと詳しく
Trip of a lifetime
2024年4月6日, イングランド ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
After a super long (14 hours) but pleasant flight, we landed back in London. We were tired but also rejuvenated - excited to get back to work (starting a new job for me) and meeting our friends. Weもっと詳しく





















































































































































