Month: August 2023
Towada and My Final Nights Away
So here we are now going towards my final few nights in Japan and as much as most people usually say it when on holiday, I really don’t want to go back home. There is so much to discover out here that I deffo want to come back and not do as much travelling as…
Osaka/Kyoto Part 2
I called this one Osaka/Kyoto part 2, but I may as well have named it Kyoto part 2 as I didn’t really do anything else in Osaka, but at least it gives me more of an excuse to come back to Japan again (Something I am already looking at) Sunday 13th August – Kyoto Railway…
Iwaki and Hakodate
Thursday 17th August – Time to go to Iwaki Today it was time to move on from Tokyo to Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture. Iwaki is about 30 miles south of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant where the disaster happened back in 2011 with the Tohoku Earthquake (9.0-9.1 magnitude) which lasted approximately 6 minutes. Before I…
Matsue and Sakaiminato
I am sorry that this one has taken so long to get out. Due to an unstable internet connection meaning that I lost about half of this post and an incoming typhoon meaning I have had to change some plans around and move my schedule up too. I am also doing this for the third…
Back to Tokyo – The Unexpected Trip Back
So back to Tokyo it is then unexpectedly, but it was better to get out of the typhoon’s way then to stay where it was going, especially after looking at the news and the damage it has caused. So, on the 14th I moved back to Tokyo literally a few hours before it hit where…
Osaka/Kyoto Part 1 – Osaka, Kyoto and Nara
Hello again everyone this time I am off to Osaka to have some fun. Thursday 10th August – Moving day to Osaka Getting to Osaka was quite easy, but also fun, why you ask well, it was a long trip back through the mountains to Okayama where I had to change to the Shinkansen again…
Hiroshima and Miyajima
4th August – Moving day again So, I won’t bore you with the details about bullet trains again, but there was another nice Ekiben involved. Today was the day I moved on from Nagasaki to Hiroshima which took just less than 3 hours. By bullet trains and limited express trains. I also ended up losing…
Onward to Nagasaki
2nd August – 770 miles on Japans Rail Network So, a few days ago I got my first taste of a bullet train as I can say, flipping heck, they don’t half go fast. To put things in perspective, Motorway speed in the UK is 70MPH which equates to about 1 miles every 51.4 seconds.…
Onward to See More of Tokyo and DisneySea!
I am sitting here on the Shinkansen heading towards Nagasaki (well Shin-Kobe as that is where I change trains) travelling at about 260-270 KPH (161-168 MPH) in my green class car and on the free Wi-Fi which is again awesome!!!! 31st July – Exploring a Bit of Tokyo On the day I wasn’t feeling the…