Morioka, Japan

We stopped here on the way back from Sapporo for about 4 hours in the afternoon. It was a nice enough town, big enough for us to spend an afternoon wandering around and exploring. The town itself was quite pretty and compact, we needed to find an Internet ...

I stopped off here on the way to Hokkaido to break up the journey. It was actually a bit of a let down as I seemed to arrive on a holiday and there was nothing open and I couldnt find the temples and museums I was looking for! There were some nice ice ...

... was a lovely house, your image of a traditional Japanese house; paper sliding doors, tatami mats etc. We then headed out towards Morioka's temple and shrine are before it closed at 4. They were beautiful, and very peaceful, but almost too much. I was ...

We left Morioka on the Shinkansen (bullet train) it cost us 100 pounds and was not much really, you dont realise you are going any faster than a normal train, but u get nice seats and is a bit quieter!!!