Day to day

After an 8 hour journey from Togari Onsen, including an extra long bus ride and 2 Shinkansen trains, I finally arrived in Osaka around midnight. Given how late it was, I couldn't take public transport to my hotel, so I had to take a taxi. It cost me

It was a wet rainy day in Tokyo as I left the hostel in the morning. In some sense I was happy to leave the bad weather in Tokyo, but worried it would follow me to the mountains. Let me tell you now, it sort of did. My japanese friend

I first arrived in Tokyo at 5.45am after a long night in the bus. It wasn't comfortable, but at least it was cheap. The ticket was only ¥3800 (23.75€) instead of easily 80-odd € for the train. I originally planned and booked to get off at Tokyo

I got to Nara just after 4pm, and was greeted with a gorgeous rainbow over the station buildings. The train was just a classic regional train, though it felt more like a metro, just longer and overground. It was a fairly short ride, barely an hour from Yamashina, with one

For my first day in Japan, I slept in, only getting up late morning. I was still tired from the exhausting sick days at the end of my stay in the Philippines. When I was in the airport the night before, I picked up one of those prepaid SIM-cards so

The journey to Japan started at 6am with a Grab (the SE-Asian Uber) to the airport. Since I left the hostel early, I didn't take time to eat before getting to the airport. I just had something once I passed security. My flight to Manila took off on