LEAVING THE HIGHLANDS, BOUND FOR NARA-SHI Welcome to Nara-shi, blog fans! Nara-shi is a former capital of old world Japan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to some of Japan’s best preserved ancient temples and shrines, and our home-away-from-home for the next few days. We left […]
We’re moving on to Hokkaido for our last few days in Japan folks…. We’re down to our final few days in Japan, which makes us sad…but we’re off to Hokkaido Today, which makes us happy! Hokkaido is Japan’s Northern-most island, and, despite being the second largest island in […]
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 […]
The adrenaline rush of Tokyo city! We left the peace and tranquility of the Japanese alps behind today and took a super-limited-express shinkansen (translation = very fast train that stops NOWHERE except your final destination) from Nagano City to Tokyo. It took less than 2 hours to cover […]
Today we set a new personal land speed record! Today was a pretty relaxing day. Our only major goal for the day was to get from Kyoto to Nagoya, at some point. After a busy few days, it was nice to have a slow start to the day […]
Wandering Soles 