Around noon, we arrived at Kyoto station. We didn’t have much time to spend here as we arranged to go to a kimono meeting in Gion corner. This is a kind of cultural meeting

After a journey of 5 hours with different modes of transport (bus, cable car, train, subway, train again and shuttle bus) we arrive at Tsutaya Ryokan in the onsen town Kinosaki. This village is

After sleeping very well at the temple (you only hear the sounds of the wind and the rain, nothing else) it was time to get up for the morning prayers. Together with the other

Today we left from Osaka to a temple in Koyasan for a couple of nights. Koyasan is a mountain village that can only be reached by a combination of train, cable car and bus. The

After sleeping off the jet-lag, we took of around 9:30 AM for our second day in Osaka. We didn’t really have a plan, but we walked to Osaka station. Arriving here, we first went

Exhausting, packing is quite an ordeal, the thin line between packing too much and packing too little, not sleeping afterwards caused by the excitement and then on top of all that, a jet-lag. The

After 6 long years it’s finally time for out next japan trip With our previous group tour we already saw and experienced many famous cities and sights in Japan, so it became harder for

We took the bug to Fuji-Q. There was a slight problem because the instructions on the bus were only in japanese, the only thing in english that they told us was that we had

Day 1 Today was a transferday from Kyoto to Tokyo. We chose to zoom through the landscape with the Shinkansen , this was a lot faster that riding the bus. (2.5 hours versus 6 hours) Arriving in

This morning, we took the metro to visit the trainstation. This trainstation is not like anything you’ve seen before. THe whole station had 11 floors of which the top floor had a relaxing garden