Japan 2024 Back to Winter As promised, today we work our way back, but we still had half a day to relax a little. And being in the country of trains ... we looked at more trains. Up to
Japan 2024 Final Odaiba (again) Things are slowing down. We've been here for 2.5 weeks but it's time to start thinking about heading home again. And any last things that we would want to do. The forecast
Japan 2024 Back to Shinjuku Today was primarily about the return to Tokyo before our rail pass runs out. We made sure that we had plenty of time between getting kicked out of our hotel and needing to
Japan 2024 Ōsaka (大阪市) Having made it to Tokyo, found a hotel, and sleeping like a stone, today's goal was to continue the travel adventure down south. Three days worth of traveling in three days, using three
Germany Japan 2023 Home in blue skies ... again! Yesterday was probably the worst rain of the trip, even if I managed to dodge it all and my brand new umbrella is still nicely wrapped up. And today ... absolutely nothing. Because I'm
Germany Japan 2023 The Final Odaiba After yesterdays late night, I was more than happy to sleep in a bit. And the fact that it started raining as I started to look at the clock with a "do I
Germany Japan 2023 Takao-san (高尾山) and Yokohama (横浜) So, the forecast for today looked pretty similar to that of yesterday. But I have an umbrella now ... right? Which means, if I take it with me, I don't have to worry about
Germany Japan 2023 Akihabara (秋葉原) With today being Sunday, I decided to go to Akihabara today, since it's fun watching them close the main street and seeing all the crowds. But equally, keeping with the tradition of spending
Germany Japan 2023 Shibuya (渋谷) Today's plan was pretty simple. Head down to Shibuya and see what we find along the way and presumably enjoy watching the bustle around the Shibuya crossing when we get there. Now, on
Germany Japan 2023 Asakusa (浅草) After waking up so early, I tried to keep resting in the hotel room, knowing full well that Tokyo is generally a sleepy city, as well as knowing that the earlier I head
Germany Japan 2023 Heading halfway home Hmm, my favorite, waking up before 7am so that I can drive to the airport, return the rental car, be able to check in my luggage, and have enough spare time such that
Japan 2018 Leaving in blue skies … again The morning happened a little bit quicker this morning than anticipated after we read what the checkout time of our hotel was. We originally planned so that we can nicely stroll out of
Japan 2018 Rainbows in the park And today is another beautiful sunny day … someone appears to be trying to tease me by putting pouring rain on the day I want sun and putting beautiful warm sunshine on either side.
Japan 2018 Jumping Fish Well, after checking three different forecast sources, they all concluded that it was going to rain in the afternoon. Our existing outdoor plans therefore got cancelled, and we went for something which involved
Japan 2018 Showrooms In the past, it happened maybe once per trip that I would get myself caught on a busy train and be pushed around in the flow of people trying to get on or
Japan 2018 Into the warmth So, the day didn't exactly start warm. In fact, rather the opposite, given the amount of rain. At least, this gave me a great opportunity to use my brand new, shiny umbrella. I'm
Japan 2018 Welcome back Tokyo So, as predicted, sleep … kind of didn't happen. I mean, there were points where I had my eyes closed, and there were even points where I fell asleep. But considering that the unit
Asia 2016 Last Shopping Opportunity Our last day in Japan, and apparently this meant that we had to get all of the souvenir for the jealous people back home. Travelling in a slow zigzag pattern across Tokyo, we
Asia 2016 Train Delivery After we have already emptied all our bank accounts, we went on an even more expensive shopping excursion. Synthesisers! The shop only had used stuff, and they still had stuff which went up
Asia 2016 New Toys So, in Shinjuku I was looking at things that I wanted, but they were all too expensive and not really necessary, and as such my bank account didn’t really suffer in the
Asia 2016 Pink and Hanging Upside Down Yikes, Japan has got a lot of pink. I thought that that colour would have limits, but Harajuku just seemed to have applied it by the bucket. The place is also littered in
Asia 2016 Shinjuku (新宿区) and Shibuya (渋谷区) So many memories are coming back about this place, just not any of the navigational skills. Trying to walk out of the correct end of Shinjuku station for example I got completely wrong.
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
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
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