The Japanese have always had a reputation for being on the cutting edge of pioneering, and it’s certainly no different when it comes to food. Themed restaurants, quirky cafés and unusual menus are abundant when you visit the big cities, and are guaranteed to give you a dining experience unlike any other. If you’re planning […]
Continue readingThis excerpt is part of the message the pilot of the Enola Gay transmitted ot its air base after dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima, the last city we would be able to visit during our week in Japan. The city itself does not have much going on, but history has made it famous for its […]
Continue readingObon is the most important holiday in Japan; it is the week when all the dead are remembered and mourned. This means that it is also the busiest holiday week of the year, thus the most expensive, and finding accommodation is most difficult (forget cheap accommodation). Within this context we made our way from Shizuoka […]
Continue readingThink Japan and probably sooner than later Mt Fuji will come up. Legendary as this mountain is we were thrilled about being able to see it, hopefully take some good pictures and maybe even climb it? With this in mind we arrived to Shizuoka, the city with a bullet train stop closest to Mt Fuji, […]
Continue readingIt was difficult for me to imagine Samurai soldiers once rode their horses into battle on the same fields I was now travelling through in a bullet train at over 300 km/h. I could picture them with their flashing armours and mysterious weapons raging into battle but never loosing what Japanese are famous for: honor. […]
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