Tag: japan
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Japan day 4 – Kusatsu
On our third day in Tokyo we left our bags in our next hotel and headed to Ueno to get on a train to Kusatsu. Kusatsu is known for its onsen and is a very popular tourist attraction but mostly Japanese tourists, which was refreshing to see. As the train moved northwest of Tokyo and…
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Japan day 8 — Tokyo day 3
On our third day in Tokyo we continued to have a no-plans agenda. We walked around trying to run away from the heat, as usual and ended up having an early lunch at a ramen place that served cold broth noodles (mine with sea food). Lunch as delicious. We had promised the girls they could…
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Japan day 7 – Tokyo day 2
I’ve been MIA for quite a while, and I’m sorry for that. Honestly life got in the way, but I’ve also been a bit more reluctant about writing. Mostly because it makes me miss Japan a lot, and especially these last few days of our summer trip. These where probably some of the best we…
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Japan day 6 – Tokyo day 1
This has been quite the interlude between last post and this one. Life happens and work too. Anywho! This day was not spent entirely in Tokyo. We took our sweet time leaving our little town house in Kyoto. We didn’t want to leave in fact, but we were excited to go back to Tokyo –…
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Japan day 5 – Kyoto
This was our last day in Kyoto and we decided to go into Kiyomizudera at the end of the day. We started of by walking around the neighboorhood and having lunch at Ichiran. We sat at out individual booths and had our steaming bowls of ramen and headed our way to a pancake place — when…
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Japan day 4 – Kyoto
Have you ever been to Japan during the summer? No? Let me tell you: it’s hot. Where we come from, we’re used to temperatures being around 40ish degrees Celsius, so it’s not so much that it’s hot – it’s the humidity! It makes everything worse. On our second day in Kyoto we enjoyed sleeping in…