Category: JapanPage 8 of 9
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
Rudely awoken by tourists invading our serene, isolated location, we decided to take off and find somewhere nice for breakfast. Didn’t quite find it, and settled for a…
It’s amazing how cool it can get at night (in a car) in Hokkaido, only to be roasting when the sun comes up (and, does it come up…
I had grandiose plans to sleep-in again today, however, I forgot to sign out of Skype on my iPhone, and was rudely awoken by my brother’s constant calls. …
I managed to sleep in until nearly 9AM, which is quite a feat for me (though, I attribute it to the ear plugs/eye mask). For once, Risa was…
Getting quite tired, so slept an intensely deep sleep. We’re still quite slow in the mornings, it still takes nearly two hours from when we wake up, to…
It absolutely poured down rain last night. It made me so grateful to be inside this big, dry van. It was still raining heavily when we woke up,…
Ordinary start to the morning, parked amongst the dozens of other vans at the Utoro michi-no-eki. We made our way across the Shiretoko peninsular, towards Rausu. It’s a…
It still surprises me how many people are parked (and sleeping) at the michi-no-ekis (Road Station). I guess it is quite convenient (there are nice/clean bathrooms) and it…
During the night, the strong winds turned into strong winds AND rain! We were pretty exhausted from the full day yesterday (and were both wearing ear plugs), so…
We woke at 5:15 in a park above Wakkanai, and we were treated to nice pastel shades from a cloudy sunrise. Cloudy… Unphased, we rushed to get ready…