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Last day. Mid afternoon flight but we ended up heading to the airport early and just hanging out. No dramas with the flight to Hong Kong, or the later flight from Hong Kong to Sydney. Train out toRead more
Last day. Mid afternoon flight but we ended up heading to the airport early and just hanging out. No dramas with the flight to Hong Kong, or the later flight from Hong Kong to Sydney. Train out toRead more
Another fairly relaxed day of sight-seeing around Tokyo as we'd done most other things we wanted to do. Started the day with a morning visit to the famous Tsukiji fish markets, though we didn't go atRead more
First full day in Tokyo - we had a list of stuff to see but decided to take it fairly easy as it wasn't that long. For today we focused on the Akihabara area which is one of the high-tech areas of theRead more
Last world heritage site for what was an epic and long trip! Today we visited the Temples of Nikko, a collection of mountain temples in the city of Nikko, a couple of hours north of Tokyo by train.Read more
Today's World Heritage Site was Tomioka Silk Mill, a large, well, silk mill, located in .. Tomioka, central Japan. Built in the 19th century, it was one of the world's largest and most important silkRead more
Hachi was a dog that would wait for his master at Shibuya station at 4pm every evening. One day his master had a heart attack at work and died, but for the next 10 years Hachi came back to the station every day to wait just in case 😭
That's pretty sad. You hear lots of similar stories about the faithfulness of dogs. I hope someone else looked after him after his master died 😯
Today's site was a large forested area right at the northern tip of Honshu, Japan's main island. The forest of Shirakami-sanchi is one of the last big wilderness areas in Japan - no towns, noRead more
Shinkansen train to northern Japan today, north of Tokyo, where we visited a group of temples in the Hiraizumi area. These are all related to the concept of the Buddhist Pure Lands, a way of designingRead more
Under heavy skies we got up and got on today's series of trains, heading south towards Mount Fuji. There's a few different spots you can see and interact with this icon of Japanese art and culture,Read more
Another early start - of course! Multiple trains and buses heading north-east out of Kyoto up along the isolated central northern coast. After a few hours, we arrived in the historic village ofRead more
Another busy day of temple sight-seeing today! Out fairly early on the bus, where our first stop was Ryoan-ji temple. Arrived right at 7:30am on the dot, just as the doors opened - I think we were theRead more