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

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

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

It has been ages since I blogged about my travels. In 2013, I extended my work trip to Korea, then we went for a short family trip to Bali again. In 2014, we took a family vacation to Tokyo after 10 years and I totally fell in love with theContinue Reading