Tag: Kansai/Japan 2022

Our next stop in Nagoya: the Port Of Nagoya Public Aquarium. The Toyota Commemorative Museum was just a few stops north of Nagoya Station and pretty easy to get to. The Aquarium was much further to the south, so required

The last segment of our trip was centered around the city of Nagoya, one of the larger cities in Japan and also a gateway for international flights coming into Japan. We selected Nagoya airport in September as the arrival and

The kids loved the second property we stayed at over Days 07 to 11 of this trip – Hyatt Hotel Kanazawa – that we had to manage their expectations for the third property over Days 11 to 13! We repeatedly

We were actually a little worried that Day 12 would be a bust after our going up the Shinhotaka Ropeway only to find that the summit was inaccessible because operations on half of the ropeway had been suspended because of

To cut a long story short, our visit to see the Northern Alps turned out to be a major disappointment: our first so far this trip, and hopefully the only one! Basically, the Shinhotaka Ropeway is used by visitors to

Day 11 and we’re onto our third segment of our trip: a 3D2N stay in Takayama to visit several places: starting with Shirakawa-Go today. The itinerary as planned several months ago placed a visit to the famed village nested within

It’s just so easy to use Google Maps to find good places to eat these days. One literally just searches ‘good food near me’, and you’d get a number of dining establishments show up on Maps right away. That’s basically

Toyama Castle and Matsukura Park visited, we continued on foot for another 15 minutes to the Toyama Glass Art Museum: I wasn’t expecting much from the Glass Art Museum but had also neglected to do much pre-trip reading about it.

Day 10’s itinerary would be based around Toyama, and we’d be visiting up to six places: Matsukawa Park => Toyama Castle => Toyama Glass Art Museum => Ikeda Yasubei Shoten => Starbucks @ Kansui Park => Toyama Tower Observatory. The

The second leg of our 2022 15 day to Kansai Japan is centered around Kanazawa. So, shortly after our vacation start and end dates were confirmed in September and the main region of travel decided upon, we quickly went about

We left Tojinbo on the No. 84 11:54AM bus heading back to Awara Onsen Station – bus fare again ¥790 for adults – and by the time we were back at Fukui, it was 1:45PM. The weather in Fukui continued

The north-western side of Japan where we’ve been basing the Days 07 to 11 and second segment of trip continued to see snowfall for the second day. On Day 09, our itinerary was to head in the direction of Fukui,