Musings

The very masculine display of Sumo prowess observed in the early morning, our next place we checked out was a more feline and feminine (?!) one: the Cat Cafe Mocha located in Shinjuku. However, H did a further check just

Day 06 and we spent the day exploring more places in Tokyo. The amount of walking we’d done in the first five days though – and we’re routinely clocking in around 15,000 steps each day – had started to take

While preparing the itinerary for our trip, the missus was quite insistent that we should plan to stay on Enoshima Island till evening, and specifically to see the Winter Illumination and light-up at the Samuel Cocking Garden. I didn’t know

The Iwaya Caves are a small cave system on the western side of Enoshima Island. We were initially iffy about including the entry fee for this cave when we were picking up the Enoshima Island pass after arrival. But we

The Sea Candle is a lighthouse on the island and located inside the Enoshima Samuel Cocking Garden. Entry into the garden is free until 5PM, after which admission tickets have to be purchased – I assume in part because of

The Samuel Cocking Garden is a short walk from the end of the third escalator, and alongside the Sea Candle – the lighthouse and observation tower in Enoshima – seems to be the central focal point of any visit to

The first three days of our 18 day trip saw fabulous weather: sunny with clear blue skies. The weather became considerably more overcast and cloudy on Day 04 when we’d relocated to Tokyo for the second leg of our itinerary,

During our 2019 visit to Tokyo, we visited just one winter illumination spot in the city. This trip, we made a more conscious effort to find out where the winter illumination light-ups were and populated our evening itinerary with as

Takeshita-dori Street is Tokyo’s center of teen culture and fashion styles. No, we’re not in the target demographic, but since we had this much time on our second visit to Tokyo, we needed itinerary fillers! We reached the area at

Just before leaving Kawaguchiko today for a relocation to Tokyo for our next segment of this trip, we were treated to an amazing red-sky sunrise. This was at about 6:30AM when we were already up and getting ready for check-out.

Finding suitable accommodation at Kawaguchiko for us really wasn’t easy, and it was largely an issue of pricing again: it seems to pretty much be a seller’s market for Kawaguchiko accommodations, and per night rates easily cost from SGD350 per

We spent almost 4 hours at Lake Yamanaka, then took the loop bus to our last stop for the day – Nagaike Water Park – that’s situated on the opposite bank of the lake. The Nagaike side of the lake