The beginning
November 3, 2024 in Sweden ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
We are going to Japan! But first a long flight to china.
Copenhagen Airport
November 3, 2024 in Denmark ⋅ 🌬 12 °C
Bejing Airport
November 4, 2024 in China ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
First a 9 hour flight to china, then japan. I got maybe 30 min of proper sleep. Gonna be rough, since it’s midday when we land :(
Currently 24 hours with 30 min of sleep and am dying. Air China hasRead more
First night in Japan
November 4, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Apparently our airbnb is outside of shinsekai (the new world) food and entertainment area.
Wie cool, sieht echt aus wie eine fremde Welt;) ich wünsche Euch weiterhin viel Vergnügen und spannende (sichere) Abenteuer! Norbert war so lieb mich an Eurer Reise teilhaben zu lassen, macht Spaß zu verfolgen, liebe Grüße Susanne [Susanne]
Osaka Casle + City exploration
November 5, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Osaka at night
November 5, 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Me and Erik went on a night walk.
Kobe
November 6, 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Today we visited Kobe, a city known for its steak. We also climbed a mountain to find a hidden playground, a shrine and lookout point.
Akashi Casle
November 7, 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Casle grunds but without the casle, only the ruins remain. Still a pretty park with some traditional guard towers.
Himeji
November 7, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We visited himeji and himeji casle. We also tried oden, a soup with leftover ingredients, known as a himeji classic.
Universal Studios
November 8, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Today we went to the Universal Studio theme park in Osaka. Sadly the nintendo world tickes where already gone before we even arrived, but we still had a good time!
Jazz bar / Night walk
November 8, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
After universal, william joined us and we went to a jazz bar. We acidentally found the Osaka ”light resonance” street lightning.
Hiroshima
November 9, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
William and I went off to a two day trip to Hiroshima and Onomichi. First day we visited Hiroshima Casle and it’s park and nearby temple, then we visited the atomic bomb piece museum and pieceRead more
Shimanami kaido
November 10, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
After sleeping in Onomichi, we took a bike trip through the very scenic shimanami kaido, (moutain-river sea-way). It’s a 76 km bikepath through 7ish islands and huge bridges between them.
Nara - City of Deer
November 11, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
We visited Nara, the city of deer! The over thousand deer walk freely in the park and are frendly, and will bow their head to ask for food. We also visited the great budda hall and a rural shrine.
Last minute shopping
November 11, 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
It’s our last night in Osaka so it’s time for some last minute shopping. And why not eat some conveyer belt sushi while we’re at it! (It’s very cheap!!)
Kyoto Fox Shrine
November 12, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
First day in Kyoto. Of course we immediately went to the biggest fox shrine in Japan, and the home of “the thousand gates”.
Kyoto day two
November 13, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Another packed day with a bunch of temples, shrines, and even a tea ceremony. We also found a super rare rabbit shrine, which is fun due to my zodiak.
Uji - City of tea
November 14, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Today we visited Uji, the tea district in kyoto. Famous for matcha and the tempel that’s on every 10 and 10000 yen coin/bill.
Minoh Park
November 15, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Today we checked out minoh park, or minoo park, for it’s waterfall and nice trails. Not only was the waterfall nice, but we also found some abandonded trails deep in the woods!
We ended with someRead more
Bamboo Forest
November 16, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
We visited the bamboo forest but it was quite crowded (it’s a Saturday), then two more temples nearby, the dragon temple and the gold temple.
Okazaki Station
November 17, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
On our trip to Korankei a few days back we got stuck in Okazaki for an hour due to cancelled busses. But the little part we saw was quite pretty!
Korankei Maple Festival
November 17, 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Today we to reached Korankei, literally translated as insence-storm-vally, to visit their maple festival. But due to it’s popularity all busses seemed to be cancelled, and the only way to know wasRead more
Nagoya Casle
November 18, 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
After leaving Korankei, we are off to Kanazawa! But first we once again pass through Nagoya and this time took some time to check out Nagoya Casle.
Beatiful mout, casle and nearby park! But was aRead more
Kanazawa
November 19, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
We took a buss north (3.5 hours) and now it’s cold! Around 5 degrees in the mornings, and 10 degrees less than in kyoto. But we found yet another casle and a beatiful garden!
Onsen + Sushi
November 20, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Today we visited a traditional Japanese bathhouse at the edge of Nanto, with a natural hot-spring and both inside and outside pools. Nude and gender separated with sitting showers! After we missed aRead more