Tag: 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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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.…