Japan 2024

Daimonji-Yama (Kyoto)

Today we had an even slower day than usual. Reason: the weather has finally called my bluff about the ownership of the umbrella. So we used the excuse of waiting it out to

23 Sep 2024
Japan

Kyoto Trains

Even though yesterdays train trip reservations appear to have gone okay, today we decided we did not need to push our luck. Kyoto is easily reachable by the normal train system, and with

22 Sep 2024
Asia 2016

Washigeishanoko

As the name suggests, some of us were brave enough to try out some of the more traditional Japanese clothing, a pretty popular thing to try considering the number of shops that do

30 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

Kyoto (京都市)

Lesson learnt today, not setting an alarm of any kind also means that there is no effort spent on trying to get up. So today started a little late. Whoops. Going up the

29 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

Wet Socks and Heavy Luggage

Today was a bit less of an exciting day. It was raining, which was a good start. And we were changing venues. Unfortunately, there was only a half hour train ride between the

28 Nov 2016
Japan

Kyōto (京都市) Steam Engines and Other Trains

Being slightly disappointed about the lack of transportation museum, we decided to take another look at the web page. It's basically a picture, and all the writing is embedded and written in Kanji,

14 Apr 2014
Kyoto

Kyōto (京都市)

Okay, I admit it. I have to take it back. Osaka station might be able to dock with a spaceship, but Kyoto station is there to dock with the mother ship. With a

10 Apr 2014