Tag Archives: Japan
Sunday Photos – The Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto has many must sees – the Gion Geisha District, shrines, temples & beautiful gardens aplenty, the Fushimi Inari Taisha Sembon Torii (temple of 1,000 gates) and the bamboo forest amongst them. A lot to cram into 3 days. With a couple of hours to fill before our Shinkansen train to Hiroshima, I hot-footed it alone […]
My Top 5 Countries Visited – Or Are They?
As somebody reasonably well travelled, I am often asked my favourite countries visited. This is pretty impossible, so diverse are they. I will give it a go. However, if you ask me again next week I am pretty sure the list will change! Japan I am just back from a fabulous two week trip. Fuji, […]
Late Running Tuesday Trains – Japan
I am just back from the land of the rising sun. It was a magical trip where we saw Fuji San and experienced Sakura (cherry blossoms). Here are some pictures combining trains with blossom. And here is Fuji San taken from the train.
Tuesday Train, The Shinkansen, Mishima in Japan
This week I took my first ever bullet train from Mishima to Kyoto. 300kmh. Japan is developing a maglev network to go even faster – I need to come back!
Tuesday Train – The Tozan, Hakone-Yumoto in Japan
This is actually a picture from today. We are in the Hakone region, which on a good day affords views of iconic Mount Fuji. Unfortunately today is very rainy so that view is left for another day.
A Little Piece Of Japan
People flock to Japan every year to see the spectacular cherry blossoms and from the pictures that I have seen they have every reason to do so. Whilst I still dream of making it to Japan one day soon, a stroll in my local park has given me a tiny taste of the bigger picture……. […]
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