Before I travel towards the final destination of my roundtrip through Japan, I decide to spend a leisurely morning in Hiroshima. I've discovered an old garden nearby my hotel that I want to explore. It's lovely not to have to get up super early to catch a train:) Of course there will be some traveling in the afternoon when I have to make my way to ( Read more... )

My original itinerary would have me in a mountain monastery on this day, but because of the typhoon that hit Japan, I had to adjust my trip and I opted to skip the spiritual experience and spend my day exploring history in Hiroshima instead. I got up extra early in my hotel in Kyoto to catch an early Shinkansen (bullet train) and make the most of ( Read more... )

In my previous travel report about my traintrip through Japan, I told you there was a typhoon heading for Japan, and as a precaution all shinkansen (intercity bullettrains) were suspended. This forced me to spend an extra day in Kyoto, where I would be safe. I really didn't mind travel coming to a halt for a bit, as I had become weary from having ( Read more... )

Hey, remember my holiday to Japan last October and how I never finished my picspams? I plan to finally post the travelreports of the second half of that awesome trip in the next few days (weeks?)

( Day 6: A day in Nara )

This was supposed to be a quick post, but it took me a couple of days to put together, as it gets harder to remember details, and I need more and more time to check what's on the photos. So many great memories of this trip ( Read more... )

First actual traintrip of my vacation in Japan! I took the Shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo to Utsunomiya and there I caught the local train to Nikko, a sacred sanctuary from the Edo period (1600-1868).


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It's been a while since my last travelpost; I hadn't anticipated how much energy moderating the spn_reversebang would take. I didn't have any room left to post or do much else on social media except promote that awesome challenge. But now that the event is over and the masterposts are up, I'll finally catch up with my picspams of Japan; let's see how many I can ( Read more... )

Finally got around to start sorting my photos from my trip to Japan. Here's a selection of the first two days of my 10 day tip. Not even a whole day in Tokyo yet, and I already made a ton of photos, heh. Saved me from having to write everything down;) Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

( Day 1: Flying from Amsterdam to Japan )