Trains, travel and Tokyo

Yesterday passed in a blur of transport – up early, at the platform by 7.15, on the train at 7.30 and travel, travel, travel until we finally reached Shinjuku station at 6.30pm. Luckily I slept a lot of the way, which made the time travel quite quickly, however two of the four trains we caught [...]

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Snowy Sapporo

Except that it is not…
Despite the weather reports last week saying that snow had arrived in Sapporo, any that fell has now melted, and all that is left is freezing cold air – but we are hoping it will snow before the week is out!
Last night after writing up the blog, we headed out for [...]

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Takayama to Nagano – the loooong way….

We are finally  here in Nagano after a day of travel that felt like it would not end. The hotel Metropolitan in Nagano where we are staying is a bit fancier than the Hida Hotel Plaza – it has internet access and a bathroom that has actual floor space (and doesn’t feel like the bathrooms [...]

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Travel to Takayama and History and Heritage Fri 31 Oct & Sat 1 Nov

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Sadly our last day in Kyoto had arrived, and so we packed up, and had our last breakfast at our Mr Donut ‘local’ and headed to catch the Shinkansen to Nagoya. This trip was uneventful, and the scenery was mostly [...]

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Canal City and Hitting Hiroshima

I was really grateful for the chance to sleep in today, as my cold has worsened and I have almost no voice! Today was our last day in Fukuoka, before heading to Hiroshima, and I am typing this while sitting on the Shinkansen travelling through the countryside at 300km/hour!

We got up at about 8am this [...]

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