The beginning
2024年11月3日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
We are going to Japan! But first a long flight to china.
Copenhagen Airport
2024年11月3日, デンマーク ⋅ 🌬 12 °C
Bejing Airport
2024年11月4日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 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 hasもっと詳しく
First night in Japan
2024年11月4日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Apparently our airbnb is outside of shinsekai (the new world) food and entertainment area.
Osaka Casle + City exploration
2024年11月5日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Osaka at night
2024年11月5日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Me and Erik went on a night walk.
Kobe
2024年11月6日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 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
2024年11月7日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Casle grunds but without the casle, only the ruins remain. Still a pretty park with some traditional guard towers.
Himeji
2024年11月7日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We visited himeji and himeji casle. We also tried oden, a soup with leftover ingredients, known as a himeji classic.
Universal Studios
2024年11月8日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年11月8日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
After universal, william joined us and we went to a jazz bar. We acidentally found the Osaka ”light resonance” street lightning.
Hiroshima
2024年11月9日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 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 pieceもっと詳しく
Shimanami kaido
2024年11月10日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年11月11日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 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
2024年11月11日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 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
2024年11月12日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 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
2024年11月13日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 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
2024年11月14日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年11月15日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 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 someもっと詳しく
Bamboo Forest
2024年11月16日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年11月17日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年11月17日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 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 wasもっと詳しく
Nagoya Casle
2024年11月18日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 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 aもっと詳しく
Kanazawa
2024年11月19日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年11月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 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 aもっと詳しく