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Again in Japan

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  • Trip start
    March 14, 2017

    Tokyo

    March 14, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    It's my forth time in Japan and for this time I decided to come here for Working Holiday.
    My first stop is Tokyo, where I was living for some months before. I met up with friends and webt up to Skytree, which wasn't ready five years ago, when I visited last time.Read more

  • Enoshima

    March 18, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    I went to Enoshima for a day trip with my friend. We walked around the island and took the train along the coast to Kamakura :)

  • Kyoto

    March 19, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    From Tokyo I took the night bus to Kyoto to go to a job interview. In the end I decided not to take that work, but I had a relaxing day in Kyoto :)

  • Nagoya

    March 22, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    I discovered Nagoya a little bit, did couchsurfing in Kasugai and tried to make sushi by myself. One day I went for an Italian movie, what was quite tricky, since the subtitles were just in Japanese.

  • Gifu

    March 25, 2017 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 9 °C

    After a little festival for kids in Hashima, where we could try to fish, my friends and I hiked up to Gifu castle. It was steeper than expected, but the view from the top was beautiful :)

  • Hakone

    April 1, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C

    As a company trip we went to Hakone for one night and stayed in a really nice Hotel (Gora Kadan). We ate lots of great food and took a cruise on the lake. It was so much colder, than I expected it to be, but luckily we cook take a bath at an onsen in our hotel.Read more

  • Fuji Q

    April 2, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C

    On the next day of our company trip we went to Fuji Q Adventure Park.
    Since the roller coaster were too scary for me, I enjoyed nice food and a ride on the ferries wheel with my colleagues :)

  • Inuyama Castle

    April 8, 2017 in Japan ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

    Even it was raining on my day off, I really wanted to go to do Hanami and see cherry blossoms as long as they last. So we went to Inuyama castle and saw so many nice sakura!!! They are beautiful with or without rain.Read more

  • Hashima, Gifu

    April 9, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    I went to Komeda Coffee Shop. Like in many other coffee shops around Aichi and Gifu, you just have to order a coffee and get some breakfast for free :) After that I ate lots at a Strawberry Picking and even made sushi with my friends... definitely enough food for one day :)Read more

  • Ise Shrine

    April 22, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    On Saturday I went to Ise-Shrine with my friends. We didn't spend much time at the shrine itself, but we made a wish, which I hope will come true. Most of the time, we ate lots of tasty foods, which are typical for Ise :)Read more

  • Tokyo

    April 30, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    At the beginning of Golden Week I went for a few days to Tokyo to meet my friends, eat lots of nice food with them and relax. The first thing after I've aren't is going to Nezu Museum.

  • Onomichi

    May 5, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    I went on a bicycle trip for two days at the Shimanami Kaido bike-way. From Onomichi to Imabari were 76km to go, which made by bottom hurt quite a bit. On the way I stayed for one night at Hakata Island in a lovely guesthouse.Read more

  • Imabari

    May 6, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    After a great breakfast, I went on cycling through the rain. But after arriving in Imabari, I could see the castle in the sunshine. The Islands are famous for mandarins, oranges and lemon... and for salt, as well.Read more

  • Tajimi

    May 13, 2017 in Japan ⋅ 🌧 15 °C

    I went to a exhibition in a small city in Gifu: Sweets by Naked. It made me hungry to take all the photos of real sweets and projections of them.

  • Kofu, Yamanashi

    May 27, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    This weekend I went to a wine festival in Yamanashi. I tried different kind of wines... and beer, and found a nice Café as well. I visited a shrine and castle, which doesn't exist anymore and had a super good time with my friends :)Read more

  • Imaike, Nagoya

    June 3, 2017 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    I went to a Shrine Festival with one of my friends. It was hold in his neighborhood, and there were three shrines walking through the streets. I could pull a shrine and wear typical clothes :)