Today was just to get to our starting point of this Northeast Japan / Tohoku (東北) trip – Yamagata City (山形市). Weather forecast was accurate on it being a rainy day and I didn’t plan for any sightseeing. We could […]
The 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear incident occurred in the region of Northeast Japan, or Tohoku (東北) in Japanese. The region covers a large swath of northern Honshu (the main island of Japan), spanning 6 prefectures, facing the Pacific Ocean […]
The “Golden Week” vacation this year was all for flower-viewing! After seeing the amazing Nemophila (“baby blue eyes”) fields 2 days ago (), we’re off again for another day trip, this time to see the “miraculous” Wisteria (藤), in the […]
Hitachi Seaside Park (ひたち海浜公園) I was captivated when I first saw a photo of this – an endless carpet of blue flowers as if a extension of the sky. It’s actually a large field of Nemophila (or commonly called “baby […]
We wanted to try out strawberry-picking in Japan, and although there are plenty of strawberry farms in the nearby prefectures of Tokyo, it would be best if we could do some other activity before stuffing ourselves in an “all you […]
Perhaps travelling in the cold weather the last few days had taken its toll, I started to feel some symptoms of a cold (pun intended). After breakfast, I took a good soak in the indoor bath to warm up, and […]
Shirakawago continued… We bid farewell to guesthouse Bunroku after breakfast, and had until noon to explore Shirakawago. We didn’t walk around much the previous day apart from the trek to the observation deck. There was a thick cover of snow, […]
Due to the slight mishap yesterday, we ended up with a bit of extra time to spend in Kanazawa, before our bus around 1 pm to Shirakawago. At a leisurely pace we had breakfast and then checked out from the […]
Kanazawa City (金沢市) To maximise the amount of sight-seeing time (and to save on expensive train fare), we took an overnight bus from Tokyo, reaching Kanazawa city just before 8 am. This is the second time we took overnight bus […]
I had been waiting for winter time for this trip! 2 things on my list: World heritage site Shirakawago – famous for its historical village houses, best seen when they are covered in snow – the area is one of […]