Tag: Lake Towada

  • Iwaki and Hakodate

    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…

  • The Last Days Before Japan!

    Hello again, so it is now just over 7 days till I fly, and the nerves are starting to kick off now. So, this is the end of my blog until I get to Japan or at least until I hit Abu Dhabi. Sendai – Modern city founded in 1600 by Daimyo Date Masamune and…