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Travelling without the children meant that we could totally chiong the streets of Tokyo from breakfast to supper, something we couldn’t do when it takes hours to get everyone out of home and into bed. The part about toy hunting in Tokyo is that prices can fluctuate from place toContinue Reading

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After a good rest in the hotel, we headed back to Kawaguchiko station and bought our bus tickets to 5th station and the highway bus back to Shinjuku tomorrow. Here we are joined by other fellow climbers, a mix of locals and western travellers. The bus to 5th station arrivedContinue Reading

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Today we leave Osaka for the Japan Alps and according to weather forecast it should be snowing in the two days we are in Takayama. As we approached the town, we could see snow on the ground, roofs and on trees and then it started snowing before my eyes likeContinue Reading

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Kyoto is the old capital of Japan before the present day Edo/Tokyo. I had read so much about the end days of the Shogunate era before the Meiji restoration (thanks to the game Hakuoki) that it was with a certain sense of trepidation that I arrived in Kyoto. Our firstContinue Reading

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What do deers and dolphins have in common? We saw both of them on this day of our trip which was in a way meant mostly for the children to catch some nature after days of city life. In the morning we took the Kintetsu line near our place toContinue Reading