Weather: sunny and HUMID 19°C, high 28°C Accommodation: Hotel Pacific Kanazawa. As we’d had a big day the day before and had nowhere we needed to be by a certain time today, we had a bit of a relaxing start…
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Japan 2015 Day 13: into the alps to Shirakawa-go and Takayama
Weather: overcast (and atmospheric!) with afternoon patches of rain 17°C, high 20°C Accommodation: Hotel Pacific Kanazawa. Eskil woke up at 7 am – a sleep in! We were dressed and walked to the train station before 8 am. The day…
Japan 2015 Day 12: travel from Matsumoto to Kanazawa
Weather: overcast with afternoon patches of rain 13°C, high 24°C Accommodation: woke up at Ryokan Matsukaze; went to sleep at Hotel Pacific Kanazawa. Trains: Matsumoto 10:07 –> Nagano 10:58 Nagano 11:25 –> Kanazawa 12:55 In the morning we packed up…
Japan 2015 Day 11: Kamikochi
Weather: sunny with puffy clouds 13°C, high 27°C Accommodation: Ryokan Matsukaze. Why does Eskil always have to wake up at 6:30!! It makes it hard when you’re in accommodation and don’t want him to wake other guests. A TV showing…
Japan 2015 Day 10: Off to Matsumoto
Weather: sunny with puffy clouds (especially designed to obscure Mt Fuji) 20°C, high 28°C Accommodation: Woke up at Kawaguchiko Station Inn; went to sleep at Ryokan Matsukaze. Trains: Kawaguchiko 10:06 am –> Otsuki 11:15 am Otsuku 11:31 –> Korfu 12:05…
Japan 2015 Day 09: Leaving Tokyo for Kawaguchiko
Weather: sunny morning; overcast afternoon (just in time to obscure Fuji-san!) 20°C, high 28°C Accommodation: Woke up at Kimi Ryokan; went to sleep at Kawaguchiko Station Inn. Train: Shinjuku 10:47 am –> Kawaguchiko 12:41 pm. I went downstairs with Eskil…
Japan 2015 Day 08: Yanaka, Ueno (last day in Tokyo)
Weather: sunny and hot low 20°C, high 29°C Accommodation: Kimi Ryokan We wanted to get all our laundry clean before leaving Tokyo, so we got laundry washing at 9 am (the earliest you can start). While it was washing Eskil…
Japan 2015 Day 07: Bus Tours
Weather: sunny and hot low 20°C, high 29°C Accommodation: Kimi Ryokan The day before we’d seen a hop-on/hop-off bus, and as we’d had good experiences with them in the UK we decided to try it (and hopefully it would give…
Japan 2015 Day 06: Ginza, Ito Ya, and the Imperial Palace
Weather: overcast and humid: low 18°C, high 24°C Accommodation: Kimi Ryokan We had breakfast at the Anderson at our train station again. We took the Yamanote train to Yūrakuchō station and walked to the Ito Ya Ginza store. We explored…
Japan 2015 Day 05: Rainy Relaxing and Tobu
Weather: rainy and humid: low 16°C, high 19°C Accommodation: Kimi Ryokan Eskil was up at 6:30 am, so Scott took him downstairs to the common room so I could try to sleep in. I couldn’t get back to sleep, but…