Welcome to Aomori – Honshu’s most northernly province. Evening fans! Hope all is well in your part of the world. We’re currently chilling out in our hotel room after a busy day of train-catching and castle-spotting. We caught a shinkansen from Sendai to Aomori City this morning, passing […]
Magical Matsushima Bay Howdy fans! What a glorious day we had here today – 26°C, blue skies and just the gentlest of breezes. A great day to go cruising around Matsushima Bay! This horse-shoe shaped bay, just 25kms north of Sendai, is considered one of Japan’s top 3 […]
Our last week in Japan… Today marks the beginning of the end of our 2013 Japanese experience; we fly out of Sapporo next Sunday. Not that the adventures are quite over yet – we still have a few more exciting places to visit before moving on to Korea. […]
Our last day in Tokyo was a cacophony of colour and crowds. Howdy fans! Today was our final day in this mega-metropolis; we wanted to end our Tokyo sojourn with a full sensory immersion into this city’s young, hip, cool and funky side. So we started with a pre-breakfast […]
A rainy visit to Hakone. After almost a week of clouds and drizzle, today was our first day of genuine rain. Big fat wet drops of summer rain. The up-side: the rain kept temperarures down to a very pleasant 21°C. The down-side: we had our tickets prebooked for […]
Wandering Soles 