Tokyo

Today we are spending our last day in Asia after a mammoth trip through so many amazing countries. Our family fave is still Taiwan but Japan has also ranked highly and Tokyo has been a fitting final week to the Asian chapter. In my opinion Tokyo is like what we saw as the future in the 80s […]

Tokyo DisneySea

We spent a rainy day at DisneySea with millions of others, including many novelty Mickey ear wearing Japanese schoolgirls who spent most of their time taking selfies. We chose DisneySea over the Land version as it is the only one in the world and we had recently been to Hong Kong Disneyland  Between the rain and […]

Osaka and Kyoto

The bullet train from Hiroshima whizzed us to Osaka in no time! The Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan can travel at speeds of up to 320 kilometers per hour (199 mph) but as a passenger it feels like such a smooth ride that you have little concept of the speed.  Osaka is the third largest […]

Nara

We started off our adventure on the metro, it was a bit tiring as we had to get up early and catch 2 different metro lines. When we arrived we were surrounded by not just one but thousands of tourists. We then headed off on a 5 minute walk to get to the deer park. […]

Matsuyama to Hiroshima

We arrived in Matsuyama on a very short plane ride over the Sea of Japan from Busan A confusing bus ride, coupled with urgent communications back home with my sister whom Phoebe had tasked to buy tickets to Black Pink’s UK tour meant the journey to our accommodation was slightly stressful so we were pleased […]