Japan Travel Blogs

... or not a single car on the road, they have the sirens on full blast, with voice announcements. In a place as efficient as Japan, I wouldn't have thought they would see the point of sirens and driving slowly on an empty road at 3am...but they do, and they ...

A travel blog entry from Akashi by chrisuk07
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... fully booked more than three months in advance - this problem never arose when I was travelling around New Zealand! It seems that Japan goes `sakura crazy` at this time of year (you can even buy cherry blossom flavoured KitKats), and I`d timed my stay to ...

A travel blog entry from Kyoto by rich
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... the packages, phonecalls, presents, thoughts blah blah blah...it was really cool. I am so happy to be having such an awesome time in Japan. By the way, Last Wednesday I had a speaking test. I got the top grade in my class, which is weird because I didnt ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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... moves that were cracking up the Japanese women behind me, not to mention Andy and Maribel. I wanted to make sound effects but in Japan you just cant do some things. We went to Maribels the other day for dinner, it was so delicious and now I love Honduran ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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... before we went to Tokyo, and it was about certain kinds of pottery and cloth and history of lacquering in Tsugaru(this part of Japan) and frankly I wrote a bunch of randomness, but I wrote alot and I think more than anyone else. I was first finished too... ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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... upstairs. My fate of going last was determined by a competitive game of JUNKENPOI, also known as rock paper scissors. Everything in Japan is determined by bouts of junkenpoi, from exam order to basketball teams to who gets to use the bathroom first. Well I ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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Ok folks, lets go over the finer details of my life. 1. It is freezing. 2. It is wet. 3. I slept until noon today despite having a class at 8:40. 4. The bathroom flooded again this afternoon. 5. I made it to French at great peril of being hit by ...

A travel blog entry from Still Hirosaki by becky_boo
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... have regrets. I learned from everything I did, and I have all these memories to look back on now. To anyone thinking about going to Japan, its not always easy and its not alsways fun..but it is absolutely worth it, and if you dont go, you will really be ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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... being in Shizuoka, even though the bathroom door was a TAD translucent. Actually here are some things I have noticed about Japan in general: 1. Thou shalt not care about public nudity. 2. Thou shalt install a machine in the toilet that makes running- ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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Today I headed south of Kobe for the first time since coming to Japan. Very south in fact - off Honshu and into Kyushu to visit the first of the two A-Bomb cities on my itinerary: Nagasaki. At 6 hours, the trip down was a bit longer than I expected,& ...

A travel blog entry from Nagasaki by chrisuk07
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Dude seriously, where was six? I was looking through and realized I went from five to seven without batting an eyelid. What is happening to me...

A travel blog entry from Shizuoka by becky_boo
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... a day trip to Himeji on Tuesday to see yet another castle, albeit one that is considered to be the most magnificent in Japan... I`d had a mixed bag of weather since arriving in Kyoto, but thankfully full bloom brought along blue sky, which always makes ...

A travel blog entry from Kyoto by rich
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Fancy meeting you here... So I am in Shibuya on the top floor of the HMV building paying an extortionate amount of money for a short hour of internet usage. Daylight robbery, I tell you. Well, since I last wrote, I have become quite the expert at ...

A travel blog entry from Tokyo by becky_boo
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Ten years later, we return to the place where our life as we know it began.  Fukuoka.  The city where we became engaged, and where our first baby was born.   It was like time travel back to our salad days.

A travel blog entry from Fukuoka by sutiramisu
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We called in at Himeji on our way to Kyoto, as it is home to Japan's most impressive castle. We only just got there in time though as the last admissions were at 4pm - I kept forgetting that we were still in off season. It worked out fine though as we were ...

A travel blog entry from Kyoto by rich
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... about a lack of space on the flight home...! Our two weeks together had raced by, and suddenly it was our last night in Japan...on this trip at least. Obviously, we went and had a final session in the karaoke for old time's sake, cheekily taking our ...

A travel blog entry from Tokyo by rich
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... The crossing was short but leaving the island was a bit of a sad moment because it pretty much wraps up my sightseeing in Japan. It was quite a reflective moment actually...I've seen and done so much in the last month and I'm not keen for it to end ...

A travel blog entry from Miyajima by chrisuk07
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... is improving in leaps and bounds. Yesterday I had a conversation with this lady about teaching her son english, New Zealand, China, Japan and Japanese in general. It lasted for an hour and I understood almost everything she said. I am by no means good at ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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Since my last update, I`ve had an unexpectedly eventful few days... The fun and games started on Saturday, when there seemed to be a really good atmosphere at the hostel, which was in contrast to during the week when it had been quiet. I got talking to ...

A travel blog entry from Tokyo by rich
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A couple of weeks before my scheduled return to Japan, I had a weird experience at work which threatened to jeopardise my trip before it had even started. As per usual, I was doing my best to fly under the radar of the various supervisors and managers who ...

A travel blog entry from Tokyo by rich
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... three months prior, and it turned out to be a fantastic place... After flying up to Sapporo from Tokyo on one of Japan's budget airlines, I soon discovered that it was pretty darn cold, with temperatures around minus ten! This didn't bother me at all ...

A travel blog entry from Sapporo by rich
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Kyoto is known for its mass number of Shrines and Temples throughout the city. Each one has a small purpose like protect this city block, or give me wealth, or was erected because of a good or bad event happened in someone's life. They are beautiful, ...

A travel blog entry from Kyoto by scott_and_amy
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... is so cheap during the day, around one or two pounds per hour, and it is the thing I miss most when I'm not in Japan. I don't miss their pizzas though, as we ordered one which was disgusting, although that was probably down to our misinterpretation of the ...

A travel blog entry from Tokyo by rich
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... by three old Japanese ladies, gossiping around the kitchen table. For a minute, I thought that I`d misread the map and burst in on Japan`s version of Last of the Summer Wine! For the life of me, I couldn`t get the message across that I wanted to stay for ...

A travel blog entry from Hiwasa by rich
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... me slight cause for concern. Only in Japan! Thankfully the view at the top didn`t disappoint, overlooking Onami-no-ike (Japan`s largest crater lake) and in the distance, the other volcanoes that I would be visiting in the proceeding few hours...or so I ...

A travel blog entry from Kagoshima by rich
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Japanese Castle Lying a short train ride West of Kyoto, Himeji is a small town with the main attraction being the Himeji Castle. The castle was built in the middle of the 16th century on a fort site that was build in 1346. The Castle has changed ...

A travel blog entry from Himeji by scott_and_amy
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... following of those cool people who read my blog. If you have just joined us, basically the deal is that I am here in Japan, from New Zealand, on a university exchange, so hopefully I can learn Japanese. Ask me in a year.(Whoa what pressure..) Anyways. In ...

A travel blog entry from Shizuoka by becky_boo
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It is so hot. There shouldnt be places this hot. I am aware there are places hotter than this, but I dont see how life can be sustained there. This is crazy. The bike ride to Andys house almost kills me. By the way, I got a new bike. Rusty the falcon ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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Ok, so the last Tokyo entry was getting too long, so I'm breaking it up into three parts, The next day we rose with the sun, Karla suffered no Jet lag today, for she was going to Disneyland Tokyo, the "Happiest Prace on Earf". We wrangled up some ...

A travel blog entry from Tokyo by tbassplayer
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So yeah, apparently I have seen my last snow-less day in Hirosaki. ITS CRAZY. Two days ago there was no snow. Now there is about a foot and its snowing heavily outside while I am writing this. Its been snowing all morning, this morning I lost a glove on ...

A travel blog entry from Hirosaki by becky_boo
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