After our excursion into the woods we return to the city life. From Hakone we take a ‘normal’ train to Okayama and then Shinkansen which takes us to Kyoto in 40 minutes. There is a …
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A word about public transport – getting around in Japan
Japanese are awesome and they are making their lives really easy with public transport – and tourists benefit from that. We already used the train, bus, metro, tram, ferry and plane and it always worked …
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Today we are exploring the mountains of Hakone. The weather is cloudy and steamy as usual. Earlier that day we woke up in our Japanese bed (meaning: we slept on the floor) 😀 and it …
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In the National Park, 2 hours by train north-west of Tokyo, is the temple area of Nikko with the Tosho-gu Shrine. The buildings date back to the Edo period between 1603 and 1868 when Japan …
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Arriving in Tokyo at 08:00 in the morning on a Saturday … that was probably a good idea, because we avoid the business crowds. Altogether we spent 3 days in Tokyo and that is faaaar …
Continue readingJapan – A guest contribution
Hello my dears, as some of you are aware, my sister Dagmar and her boyfriend Victor are touring through Japan at the moment – and from now on you can follow their trip her on …
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