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Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Flora

Posted on 28 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

As she always does, the wife was using the S21 Ultra this trip to take pictures of flora. She, after all, quipped on Facebook that: And truth be told, she has a much better eye for creative picture framing and

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

Posted on 27 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

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

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

Posted on 27 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

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 long holiday. The vacation went remarkably well: we were able to hit most of our

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

Posted on 27 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

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

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Day 18 @ Tokyo – Singapore

Posted on 25 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

Our final day in Japan, and this would be a post recording our experiences of arriving at Narita and leaving Japan! Firstly, perhaps it’s a Singaporean thing to over-plan and over-compensate when it comes to traveling. But we had been

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Day 17 @ Matsumoto – Tokyo: Ueno

Posted on 24 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

Day 17 today was our last major relocation from Nagano prefecture back to Tokyo. We initially toyed with the idea of racing from Nagano to Tokyo and flying home on the same day, but we couldn’t find a suitable flight

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

Posted on 24 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

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 – Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

Posted on 23 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

So many people have already made this trip to see the snow monkeys at Jigokudani Monkey Park that it’s hard to really add much further value in any blog post about our visit. But perhaps I’ll angle my post here

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Day 16 @ Nagano – Shiga Kogen and Kumanoyu Ski Area

Posted on 23 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

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

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Mt. Fuji

Posted on 22 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

We really went all-in this trip to paparazzi the heck out of Mt. Fuji. We’d earlier, during our 2019 trip, taken photos of the mountain from Hakone. This time around, our photos have centered largely on Kawaguchiko. So here’s a

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Day 15 @ Matsumoto – Norikura Kogen Snowshoe Hike

Posted on 22 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

We’re not massive snow activity persons. Nonetheless, when wintering in the country, we’d necessarily need to at least do some of it — if nothing else, just to tick off the item on the ‘must-do’ list! Unfortunately, the daughter had

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Day 14 @ Matsumoto – Winter Illumination at Matsumoto Castle

Posted on 21 Dec 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

This wasn’t in our planned itinerary, but we saw an information board during our visit to Matsumoto Castle yesterday that there is a nightly winter illumination show, and it starts from 6PM. The show repeats every 15 minutes and features

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