Category: Japan Trip

With only a morning left in Kyoto we headed to Kinkaku-ji using the bus. This is the grounds of the famous golden pavilion. It was cool to look at but notB lot else to do here. There was a pot set up next to some marked stones that people could throw money at. CHris had…

Started the second morning in Kyoto with a quick train ride to Inari. There we spent a good hour and a half walking the shrine of Fushimi-inari of the Inari Cult. Dedicated to rice and sake. The paths here cover 4km with more than 10,000 torii gates, thae famous orange ones. These gates are an…

Well after the travel day before from Tokyo, we awoke to our first day in Kyoto. The clouds were covering the sky but due to the humidity it was still boiling. I kind of get what lobsters must go through. Just over the bridge to the east from our hostel was Sansusangendo, which has featured…

Well its very impressive. At exactly 1:15am everyday the garbage truck arrives outside our window. Everything runs on time here, puts our Country to shame. Started off by heading to the Tokyo District of Tokyo, just to get our rail passes for the next 21 days and book our seat on the train for the…

Day 4 was a Monday. One tube stop away was the Sumo stadium and after a quick walk we found out it was closed, after a quick check we found most things were on a Monday. Reading up, the only area that seemed to be open was the Roppongi District. Some quick tube hopping and…

Chris awoke this morning with tails of rainy dreams. He had a dream that started raining then awoke to the top bunk dripping through to his. Luckily it was only water that the guy spilt. our 3rd day saw us heading to the wooded grounds of Meji-jingu. We walked throught he grounds and garden, following…

After waking we got changed and headed out. The first thing we noticed upon leaving was the shear heat that blasted us, you think we had a heat wave back home? that’s nothing. Quick breakfast and jumped on the metro system, which is so efficient compared to London. The latest we have seen a train…

Well after our nap on the first night, we headed out. After a quick walk Chris had taken me to a Japanese BBQ. We spent 5 mins trying to decipher the menu before the waiter came over and gave us an English menu. Still not that clear we ordered anyway with the typical pointing and…

After setting a 4am wakeup call, then excitedly being awake till half 2 I finally drifted off. The shock came when I rolled over and saw the half 5 being displayed on my obviously unset alarm clock. Springing out of bed I rushed into the hallway where me and Chris almost collided, both saying “we…