Tag: Shinkansen
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…
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…
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
So it has been about 10 days since the last post was published and it has been quite a busy time finishing off what I want to do in Japan (I have quite an extensive itinerary, which I am sure won’t all go to plan)Now I am going to be going over some of the…