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Travels around Japan, from the time living here as an English teacher on the JET programme, to the time spent living and working in the ski resort area Niseko.
As well as our road trip around Japan, which is in its own sub category
Fuji Rock Festival (FRF) is one of Asia’s largest music festivals, attracting well over 100,000 spectators and dozens of international and local performers. It’s located at the Naeba…
At 3776 metres above sea level, Mount Fuji is not only the highest mountain in Japan, it’s also one of the most iconic in the world. The official…
It’s been a while since my last visit to Tokyo. The bus ride from Narita airport reminded me just how colossal this megalopolis is, with concrete apartment blocks…
For English booking, please contact the ryokan directly via their Facebook page – facebook.com/ginkonyu – I don’t have anything to do with the ryokan, other than being a very…
Like all good adventures, it started with blue sky dreaming. We were finishing up our travels around Australia and were planning on heading back to Japan for another…
The journey was over. We had a few short days to move in to our beautiful (and some might say romantic) log cabin before we were to start…
This is it, the last leg of the journey. Tomorrow we will be back in Hokkaido. We boarded the ferry just before midnight, and learning from past experience…
It was still stormy when we woke up; it was nice to listen to the ocean last night, felt very nostalgic… It was going to be our…
Another day where there may have been lots of things to see and do, but we were fast running out of time (and had already run out of…
Another chilly night in the van that required us to wear a little more clothes to bed than we were used to. It didn’t feel that long ago…