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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

Day 32: Kishiwada Danjiri Festival

Today was a little different to most days so far.  It was like a day-trip.  We packed up and left the quiet michi-no-eki at Waizumi and drove in…

Day 31: Heiburi (Nara) – Izumi (Osaka) 52km

I woke up a few times during the night, slightly cold, and it was even colder outside when I went to the bathroom early in the morning.  I…

Day 30: Kono (Fukui) – Heiguri (Nara) 206km

It was still raining heavy when we woke up, made getting out to go to the toilet unappealing. I knew we were going to have a big day…

Day 29: Tsuruki (Ishikawa) – Kono (Fukui) 172km

We’ve been getting so tired recently, so we slept in a little and had an extra slow start to the day (and watched some TV from bed). We’re…

Day 28: Kanazawa – Tsuruki 42km

Woken early-ish by the bright sunshine, so I was quite surprised that when I went outside, everything was wet.  Apparently there was quite a storm last night… Usual…

Day 27: Shirakawa (Gifu) – Kanazawa (Ishikawa) 121km

Another stormy-night/rainy-morning that cleared by the time we’d finished breakfast.  Convenient! As we were finishing breakfast, Risa started chatting to an old lady working at the michi-no-eki, and…

Day 26: Okuhida – Takayama 58km

Was raining when we woke up, which could have made sleeping in quite easy.  Except, I was awake long before my alarm was set to wake us.  Typical….

Day 25: Kamikochi (Nagano)

During the evening last night, while reading about what there was to do in the area, I re-read the information about Kamikochi (the area that we drove past…

Day 24: Nozawa Onsen (Nagano) – Okuhida (Gifu) 185km

Yet another semi-clear morning, with blue skies and high clouds (and high temperatures). We spent longer than normal deciding where to go today, but eventually we decided to…

Day 23: Uonuma (Niigata) – Nozawa (Nagano) 108km

The cool weather from yesterday had disappeared this morning, waking up hot for the first time in a few days.  The weather forecast predicts that this heat wave…