She says: Kyoto – Japan’s cultural heart Another day, another shinkansen journey – yay! From Hiroshima to Kyoto took us a little over 2 hours, with lots of scenery to enjoy on the way. We had a relatively slow start to the day and didn’t even get on […]
Fancy a day trip to Miyajima Island anyone? Evening blog-heads! Today’s tale of adventure and discovery comes to you from the island of Miyajima, one of a chain of mountainous islands in the Japanese Inland Sea, just off the coast here in Hiroshima. Shane and I took the […]
Bullet trains are cool, the atomic bomb was not. Greetings fans! Another day for us here in Japan, and boy was it a hot one: 32 degrees Celsius with enough humidity to leave you sticky and sweaty, even at 7:00am. What a great day to be packing up […]
Our last day in Osaka was spent shopping & losing ourselves in the underground malls. We spent our last day in Osaka doing some “house-keeping” (i.e. catching up on emails, booking a hotel for our next stop and doing laundry – when you’ve only got 3 t-shirts, regular […]
1200 years of history all in a day at Koya-san. Today’s adventure took us to Koya-san (Mount Koya). Some 66 kms south of Osaka, this tiny mountain-top village is home to 6,000 Buddhist monks and nuns, no fewer than 30 temples, countless shrines and the oldest and most […]
