Sun Hotel Nara

Today we went to visit Nara Park in Nara. Nara Park is a large sacred area with several temples and shrines, but Nara is also famous for the deer that wander around the park. These deer are sika and our said to be the messengers of god. And they like ...

... Teacher. He had a flight to China the day before which he couldn't board because there was a problem with his visa. He got a hotel in Osaka and then hit the Chinese consulate in the morning and rectified his visa and then hopped on a train to Nara City ...

Today we left Kyoto, but before we left for good we went to visit Nara. Unfortunately, this required us to go from our hotel to Kyoto station with all our bags. It's hard to explain the number of bags some us are now carrying, a number of new bags have ...

... on us, we finished going through the motions of visiting Heijokyo. We made it on the last bus back to the station and returned from the full-scale replica Nara (~710AD) palace to our hotel near the 5/8ths scale replica Heian (~794AD) palace for the night. ...

... and Toru had found a capsule hotel nearby to stay in as the hostel was full so after checking in we hunted out the capsule hotel and found a rolling sushi restaurant for dinner. This was great fun. The sushi is placed on a conveyer belt which you all sit ...

... always wanted to visit. An overnight trip to Nara meant a rush to pack in the morning and storing our excess luggage in the hotel office. After we had stuffed everything into the tiny office, the guys went to SATY where we picked up some treats from the ...

Last night Tom's friend, Mickey, came and had a beer or 2 in our hotel room, and then the 4 of us went out for dinner. . It was a lot of fun, and aferwards had a bit more of a look around the monolith that is Kyoto Station. Tom (once again) went out later ...

... here was also highly reputable in Japan. In fact, Osaka was known as "the kitchen of Japan." After arriving to my hotel in Nihonbashi (trans: "Japanese Bridge") Neighborhood, I quickly found out that I was located right in the heart of the Electronic ...

... , while doing my best to leave out the sappy nostalgic stuff.  I'm writing this post from the 9th floor of my Tokyo hotel. For the biggest city in the world, you can't quite tell that from scene of my window. Lonely cabs passing intermittently on the ...

... friendlier than the cows though! We walked a scenic route to a view point at a temple overlooking the city to watch the sun set over Nara. It was a very serene moment looking out over the city with the sweet smell of incense burning, paper lamps swaying ...

... ;arigatos’ and ‘konnichiwas’ and ‘sayounaras’ (the sum of our Japanese language skills!), farewell slighty dodgy hotel guest who dress in rainbow tie-dye clothes and sit a little too close to you on the sofa (ok... maybe ...

... as cars filter out of the area. Enjoying the moment, we enjoy the stillness of the night before heading back to our hotel. Day Two - A merger of spirituality and shopping? Day two arrives and it's a full-on day of traveling around Tokyo. Our ...

... of a few shogunates and has some spectacularly ornate shrines and architecture. It's a couple of hours north of Tokyo and like Nara (though smaller) has a pretty plain main city area set aside from a park (or forest in this case) that houses the main ...

... town and found an up market Indian restaurant and treated ourselves to a fabulous jalfrazi and korma. We headed back to the hotel and watched a disturbing horror movie. As we tried to sleep the mobile started... panic text messages following the latest ...

... grown, you make pickles and enjoy a lunch of soba noodles and tempura. In the late afternoon, arrive at your resort hotel with the atmosphere of a traditional Japanese inn. Savor a traditional dinner this evening, dressed in a time-honored kimono. Later, ...

... in Miyazaki Japan? Multi-Skilling in Miyazaki Feel like an adventure in Kochi Japan? A Night at 'The Big One' Japanese Capsule Hotel Feel like an adventure in Awa Ikeda Japan? A Stunning Train Ride to a Hostel With a View Feel like an ...

... get a grip on how old it really was. We have bento boxes for lunch, really really fancy ones, but we were in a beautiful hotel in Nara that had a wonderful garden, it was really very pretty. Nara is a beautiful city as well, not as modern as Kobe but it ...

... us, teaching us a little Japanese, and asking questions about where we were from. Once we gathered our bags from the hotel we jumped on another train to Nara (thank goodness for the Japanese rail passes we bought in Hawaii). It was dark by the time we got ...

... by tuk-tuk drivers offering to take you into Siem Reap. The cost was ridiculously low, as they would make commissions from the hotel they took you to. The road (I am being extremely generous with calling it a road) weaved through simple huts and fishing ...