Roller-coaster amusement parks aren’t our normal thing: the missus and I certainly don’t have the thrill-seeking gene. And while the daughter is always willing to try new things and heights don’t faze her in the slightest, she’s also not the
We spent about an hour in Arakura-yama Sengen Park – that includes the time it took us to hike up and down – then returned to Shimoyoshida Station and hopped onto a bus for a short 3-minute ride to Shimoyoshida
To be truthful, we boarded our flight for Tokyo last night with more than a tiny bit of anxiety. Last year, despite coughing up the extra dough to fly with our premium national carrier at premium fares, our SQ flight
And finally, a last post on toys that are coming along for this trip. With just a few hours before we head to the airport, I’m going all minimalist this trip! The amount of gear for this Japan year-end trip
It’s now just a week before we head off to our 18-day-long holiday in Japan. We’ve continued to check, re-check, and improve our long itinerary, and at this point, we’re about ready to go. Since our last post where we
One of the long running jokes we have at home is the missus’ string of bad luck when it comes to my birthday presents. She’s gotten me a number of tech toys over these many years, including smartwatches and tablets.
Finally; our 18-day planned itinerary as it is, but there are still a couple of things we’re rechecking and reviewing. It’s an 18-day-wide stretch, so the plan is in two screenshots: Days 1 to 4: From all counts, trying to
Our flights into and out of Narita in December, for a span of 18 days of travel, were booked several months ago. So, since July, we’d been researching and putting together the exact day-by-day plan – and it’s been pretty
We moved from a relatively laid back Fukuoka city to a lifeless one in Matsue, and finally to the crowded and noisy Osaka. The hotels I stayed in each city pretty much reflected that general character too. For Osaka, I
The obligatory post about dining in Japan this trip! Well, what I had for grub varied widely, since it ran the range of hosted multi-course dinners at restaurants, conference banquet, committee buffet dinners, lunch bentos over working meetings, and finding
I really didn’t explore much of Osaka during the free time I had for this trip, and this again was for a variety of reasons: that this is my third time in Osaka now, that I’ve never found Osaka that
The conference completed on Day 09/15 Sep, and we left Matsue the following day on 16 Sep to make our way to Osaka for the last segment of this work trip. Mindful that the inbound journey to Matsue from Fukuoka
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