Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Equipment Comments

The first of the last two posts in this series covering our 18 day trip to Japan, and this one will be about the image and video capturing experience of the trip. I reckon the most important thing to say

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Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Itinerary Retrospection – Part 2

Continued from the last post! Day 9 (Kawagoe) Kawagoe – Temples and Kanetsuki-dori Street (2 hrs) [blog post here]: This was another pleasant day-trip that we made out of Tokyo. The place is easy to get to, and it’s also

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Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Itinerary Retrospection – Part 1

This has been our longest family vacation at 18 days, and it was a rare opportunity for us to be able to take such a holiday. The vacation went remarkably well: we were able to hit most of our planned

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Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – APA Hotel Keisei Ueno Ekimae

The fifth and last of our blog entries observing our places of stay this 18 day trip to Japan! We stayed at the APA Hotel Keisei Ueno Ekimae for just one night, so our notes would be probably limited by

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Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Tabino Hotel Lit Matsumoto

We were targeting to stay within Nagano city and close to the train station for the Nagano segment of our trip months ago early on in our planning. Unfortunately, there seemed to be relatively few hotels around the train station,

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Day 16 @ Nagano – Shiga Kogen and Kumanoyu Ski Area

Day 16! And our last full day in the Nagano prefecture, we’d booked through Klook a day visit to a highland for snow activities and to also visit that very famous snow monkey park. In a sense, this day trip

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