Category: Japan
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Lands of wilderness and people
We’re back from our travels through Japan and Hong Kong. It was quite tiring travelling with baby and dealing with the long flights at terrible times of the night, tiring to all get some sleep while lights were on and attendants were serving meals. We started off in Cairns, after a short flight from Adelaide.…
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Kyoto’s Sakura, Neko and Buddhist food
On our final 3 days in Japan we stayed with Atsu in Kyoto. We saw beautiful sakura near Ginkakuji along the Philosopher’s Path and at night time under illumination in Maruyama Koen. We made funny poses and made photo seals in a purikura amusement centre. We had tea with cats in a neko cafe. We…
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Last night in Osaka and farewell Japan
On Saturday we had pancakes for breakfast with Atsu in Kyoto, before packing our bags and catching the train to Osaka. Once we had checked into our hotel near the Shin-Osaka station we went to Green Earth restaurant for lunch. Last time we were in Osaka it was closed for O-bon holidays. It was cheap…
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Final days in Japan- Kyoto
On our final 3 days in Japan we stayed with Atsu in Kyoto. We saw beautiful sakura near Ginkakuji along the Philosopher’s Path and at night time under illumination in Maruyama Koen. We made funny poses and made photo seals in a purikura amusement centre. We had tea with cats in a neko cafe. We…
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Local trains to Kyoto
We had 2 trips on our seishun 18 kippu left so we embarked on another 8 hour local train journey from Tokyo to Kyoto. The highlight was seeing Mt Fuji from the train when it stopped at Fuji station.
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Last day in Kisarazu
Our apartment inspection went quickly with no troubles apart from being told that some items we had put in non-burnable rubbish were actually burnable. Eww too much rubbish incineration. During the inspection it started to snow. After dramas at the post office trying to post our stuff home (they wouldn’t accept our suitcases so we…
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Cleaning can be done later
Second to last day in Kisarazu…and we escaped. Instead of cleaning the apartment we caught the bus to Yokohama and met up with Atsu and his niece for lunch, then met his beautiful sister and the younger niece over green tea and sakura sweets. We ate macha flavoured soymilk gelati for morning tea, then had…
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Is farewell a verb?
Photos from the Gyosei Inter farewell dinner in Kimitsu. The Indian waiter took the photo, but had difficulty working out how to press a button, so we ended up with 12 of the same photo. I never knew using a camera was so difficult. Enjoying the same photo.
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