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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

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There were two things on our agenda today – visit Himeji Castle and shopping at Den Den Town. However we left our apartment relatively late and after spending more than 20 minutes exchanging our rail passes at Shinosaka station, we could only catch the 12 noon train to Himeji. ThankfullyContinue Reading

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Some distinctive features one can almost immediately observe about Osaka – its orderly gridlike road network, the number of cyclists on the road and the love for shopping streets which can be identified by the ‘bashi suji’ in their names. Our first stop for the morning is the Kuromon market.Continue Reading