Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
2024年11月18日, オランダ ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
After a long wait, it was finally time for our dream trip to Japan to start. Let's visit Japan and see what kind of wonders we discover.
Connecting in Shanghai
2024年11月19日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
After an eleven hour flight we have arrived in Shanghai with about three hours to kill for our next flight towards Tokyo. We are nearly there!
Welcome Tokyo Haneda!
2024年11月19日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
After 17 long hours we have finally arrived to our destination ''Tokyo''. Let's quickly find our way to our hotel to have our well-deserved rest and to explore Tokyo the first thing when the firstもっと詳しく
Three nights in Resol Stay Akihabara
2024年11月19日〜22日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
For our hotel we have chosen a cozy, but tiny hotelroom in the Akihabara region. It was a struggle to sort our luggage in the room and have a way to find your way to the bathroom or exit, though weもっと詳しく
Senso-Ji 🛕 🙏
2024年11月20日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
Tokyo has so many things to offer and we decided to pay a visit early in the morning to Tokyo's Senso-Ji Temple after our breakfast at a nearby ramen restaurant. An unique, but different templeもっと詳しく
A lesson of History!
2024年11月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
After visiting the Senso-Ji temple, we didn't sit idle and decided to explore a museum about the history of Japan. While we are familiar with the basic history of Japan, we learned a lot of new factsもっと詳しく
Taking a stroll around Tokyo's imperial!
2024年11月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
After having a quick bite, we decided to pay a visit to Tokyo's Imperial Palace only to realize that it was already closed and the tours were fully booked for today and any of the upcoming days, soもっと詳しく
Japanese BBQ 😃
2024年11月20日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
To finish our wonderful first day, we decided to pay a visit to a small restaurant for some Japanese bbq with wagyu meat. Yummy!
Visiting the famous Tokyo's crossing!
2024年11月20日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
After finishing our Japanese bbq it was now time for us to pay a visit to the famous crossing in Tokyo and to spot it from high above, but unfortunately the weather was not on our side! Still greatもっと詳しく
Tasty Seafood!
2024年11月21日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
After a wonderful night we decided to start our day with some nice seafood breakfast at Tsukiji fish market. Expensive and a tourist attraction, yet very entertaining and delicious!
Capyneko Café!!
2024年11月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
And in order to fullfill a long lasting dream from my wife, we booked an appointment at Capyneko Cafe in order to meet a Capybara accompanied by some lovely cats!
Meeting up with Godzilla!
2024年11月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
After our Capybara's visit, we decided to visit the Shinjuku region to visit the famous Godzilla 🐲 used in the movies and to have some lunch.
It was a pleasure Tokyo!
2024年11月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
While our visit to Tokyo could definitely been longer, we thoroughly enjoyed our stay over here, but it is time for us to move to our next destination within Japan!
Itami to connect to Kyoto!
2024年11月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
While the famous Shinkansen bullet train to Kyoto was definitely more the scenic route, it was financially better to fly to Osaka Itami and grab a bus from here to Kyoto.
KYOTO!
2024年11月22日〜25日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Kyoto was definitely the most expensive city of the ones we were about to stay and we decided to stay in Tune Stay Kyoto, which did have a nice lobby, yet basic rooms. Not that it did matter much asもっと詳しく
Kyoto's first stop Higashi Hongan-ji
2024年11月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
After arriving in Kyoto early afternoon, we were unable to check-in to our hotel yet, so we decided to leave our luggage with the hotel and walk over to the nearest temple, which was Higashi Hongan-ji
Tasty food in Nishiki Market
2024年11月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Thereafter we went to the Nishiki Market to have a late lunch/early dinner and trying out many of those tasty snacks including milt in ponzu sauce, blood clam sashimi and some grilled seafood!
The Famous Fushimi Inari Taisha
2024年11月23日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
After experiencing Natto for the very first time as a breakfast option, we were now ready to pay a visit to the Fushii Inari Taisha. A famous spot in Kyoto, but extremely crowded. We did enjoy itもっと詳しく
Kiyomizu-dera, the most impressive one.
2024年11月23日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
The most memorable temple we visited though was the Kiyomizu-dera as it was surrounded by vibrant colours overlooking the beautiful city of Kyoto!
Exploring Pontocho
2024年11月23日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
When the nightly hours were approaching, it was now time for us to find some food for dinner in the Pontocho district, which turned out to be quite a challenge as most restaurants were fully booked orもっと詳しく
A very beautiful garden.
2024年11月24日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
The following day we decided to head in the opposite direction towards the bamboo forest, but we decided first to pay a visit to the Tenryu-ji temple, which to be honest was an ordinary temple with anもっと詳しく
A very, very crowded Bamboo Forest.
2024年11月24日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Unfortunately the famous bamboo forest we were so keen to visit was more of a miss due to the large numbers of tourists and it's rather small size, though the bamboo on itself was impressive to see.
A very beautiful riverline!
2024年11月24日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Upon exiting the bamboo forest and taking a different walking route than most tourists, we did end up near the river which gave us a spectacular view over the river. We also managed to have a lunch inもっと詳しく
Yasaka's Shrine
2024年11月24日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Initially after our lunch, we wanted to book us on a ride with a train that is known to be very romantic, but unfortunately was sold out by the time we reached the station. Instead we decided to headもっと詳しく
Gion's Old District
2024年11月24日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Given that it was late afternoon on a sunday, a lot of shops were unfortunately closed, so we decided to take a stroll through the old district of Gion, which was calming and pleasant!