Hotel New Hankyu

... pounds of luggage, but it'll due if it means saving 1000 yen.  The hotel that we stayed at was fantastic (called the Hotel New Hankyu, for those among you who are interested), had a fabulous view of the city and everything (if I can figure out how to ...

... hotel (Sunshine City Prince) in Tokyo, luggage transfer service from Tokyo to Osaka, Bullet Train to Osaka, 2 nights hotel in Osaka (New Hankyu), escorted Kyoto morning tour, transfer service to Osaka airport, flight to Bangkok, 3 night stay at a ...

... 2 hour nap (no that isn't good for jetlag!). Rest of afternoon was spent trying to wake the kids up (1 hour), hitting the new Hankyu department store so Anthony could look for a belt (he forgot his), dinner with O'Malleys in an alfresco Japanese yakitoro ...

... , lovely & kind don't cut it here in Osaka where everything is larger than life. This morning we stayed in the hotel until about 11am because I needed to finish the encyclopaedia that was the second days blog – apologies if it was very long ...

... disorientating experience in an underground mega-mall cutting through fast-paced currents of pedestrians with my heavy backpack on, I reached the Hankyu train line and boarded...Destination: Kyoto. Once in Kyoto about an hour and a half later, I was ...

... art museum. I can't tell you much about it, other than it was a very wealthy man (he started the huge Hankyu train line and department store), who had this collection. The gardens surrounding the museum were beautiful. I'm always in amazement of the ...