Transit

Duck Adventures

Getting up at 5 in the morning isn't really my strong point, and it wasn't improved by the realisation that I had been awake for over four hours when I boarded my first

18 Apr 2015
Japan 2015

City landscapes

It took us a surprisingly large amount of time to find a train today. Like 6 hours and 12km of walking. And even then, the train still had rubber wheels. It is worth

18 Apr 2015
Japan 2015

Adorable Pets

The first destination for today was an exhibition by Toho studio, known for works like the original Godzilla or the Seven Samurai. The funny thing is that the Godzilla almost looks cute for

17 Apr 2015
Japan

Not Rain but Wind

If you would like to build a museum for different styles of Ramen, by building a small network of back alleys (the place where Ramen shops are naturally born), where in a place

16 Apr 2015
Japan

Toyoda and Silk

First, the joke. The busiest store at the Nagoya train station, with a queue that required portable barriers to keep it in line, was the popcorn shop. The reason for coming down to

15 Apr 2015
Tokyo

In hot and cold water

For the majority of the day it was bucketting and cold winds were in no short supply. So we set ourselves underway to find us some hot water instead, and found a Japanese

14 Apr 2015
Japan

Kamakura (鎌倉市)

After being in busy Shibuya yesterday, we went for the scenic route today. Our route to Kamakura involved the subway, a normal train, an upside down monorail which the train was suspended from,

12 Apr 2015
Japan

For Science

Today was time for the science museum. Even if we aren't exactly fluent in Japanese, it's still exciting to see what kind of a show they put on in there. If was slightly

12 Apr 2015
Japan

Nagoya (名古屋)

Today's goal was to shoot down to Nagoya for the train museum there. It's a little weird that the museum from trains which were very much operated by Japanese Rail (JR), cannot actually

11 Apr 2015
Transit

Tokyo (東京)

Our usual method of getting out of the country involved driving to the nearest city and flying from there. This time we decided to spoil ourselves and fly to the nearest city instead.

09 Apr 2015