Last day in Japan is spent in Osaka!! We go for lunch in a character café, something I have only seen in Japan. A small pop-up cafe or restaurant where the entire menu is

Going from Kyoto to Kinosaki, this little hot spring village has no less then 7 bath houses that are free to visit if you stay in one of the many ryokan in the village.

The main event of today is again in the evening so we can take it easy most of the daytime. In the morning we join the big tour groups to Fushimi Inari shrine, or

Another day another side trip, this time we took the train the the mountain villages of Kibune and Kurama. We started in Kibune where we had reservations for an exquisite kaiseki lunch on a

While we are renting a house in Kyoto we are well taken care of, a local restaurant delivers breakfast every morning and there is housekeeping and turndown service. So yeah quite a bit of

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In Kyoto we skip the ideas of hotels or ryokan and get to rent our own little townhouse. The entry hall is decorated by famous artist Hideki Kimura, there is a small garden and

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Next stop Gujo Hachiman, the town of water and dance. While it is +30° outside it feels a lot cooler in this small city lined with little waterways and big rivers. In the small

Transfer day from Tokyo to Nagoya, but first we wanted to do something special. In Asakusa, the area where we were staying you have a lot of shrines and temples. 9 of these are