Category: Japan
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Saying Farewell to our Favorite Flavors of Japan
The last segment in Japan! We covered more distance by train in one day than any other of the trip just to say we made it onto the island of Kyushu. We spent some time in Hiroshima learning about the impact of the atomic bomb, visited several castles, and ended our time in Japan with…
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Munching our way from Kanazawa to Kyoto
Since Tokyo we have mostly been off the normal path for tourists, but as we got to Kanazawa and especially Kyoto they were already starting to swarm, I can’t even imagine what it would have been like in a few weeks when the cherry blossoms burst forth. Kanazawa Through the Snow We left Takayama on…
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Monkey See, Monkey Onsen, in Nagano, Japan
This week we went from spring back into winter! From Sendai we headed into the mountains to the ski town Yuzawa, also the home of the Kiyotsu Gorge and splurged a bit on our ryokan. Then we took a few more trains to Nagano where we got to see the snow monkeys enjoying onsens and…
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Walking across Tokyo and Riding the Rails to Mt. Fuji and Sendai
Why yes, we did walk across Tokyo. Our feet were complaining a bit the next day but at least we only walked one way and could take the train back. I’m dividing up Tokyo into about 1 week chunks but we did quite a bit of adventuring so hopefully these won’t be too long winded.…
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Counting Down to the New Year, Japanese Style
Today we had to leave early to make it to our train at 6:30am but since we’re all still adjusting time zones there wasn’t much trouble to be up and going. My SIL and I took a stop at the 7-11 across the street from the train station to get goodies for breakfast on the…
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Start of my Ramen Obsession in Japan
I am apparently a bit long winded so our 4 day trek to Japan will come to you in a few parts so you don’t fall asleep part way through. We are starting our grand adventure in Asia, the only continent neither of us has been to (besides a few steps in Turkey for Mr.…