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  • Tokyo youkoso!

    Day 1 · Narita Airport, Chiba

    Tokyo youkoso minna-san! Welcome to Tokyo everyone! After nearly 14 hours in the air, watching the sun barely set and rise again the next…

  • Yumiko’s Apartment

    Day 1 · Harajuku, Tokyo

    Manners are underrated; real estate is overrated. We found Yumiko’s apartment on airbnb while looking for something relatively…

  • Electric Shinjuku

    Day 1 · Shinjuku, Tokyo

    After finding and checking-in at our first home base in Japan, we were pretty tired from all the traveling and sweaty from the Japanese…

  • Busy Shibuya

    Day 2 · Shibuya, Tokyo

    After a well deserved night of sleep we decided to spend the day in Shibuya, but not before exploring beautiful Harajuku further. The…

  • Street market

    Day 3 · Ueno, Tokyo

    Waking up early with the Japanese sun leads to many nice and surprising trips. We could start using our JR passes today, so we decided to…

  • Electric city

    Day 3 · Akihabara, Toyko

    After visiting Ueno in the morning, we hopped on the train again to visit the electric city, Akihabara, known for its anime, manga and game…

  • Tsukiji market

    Day 4 · Tsukiji, Tokyo

    When we arranged for a guided visit to the Tsukiji market we had in mind that we were going to visit the biggest fish market in the world,…

  • Spiritual Kamakura

    Day 4 · Kamakura, Kanagawa

    After hectic Tsukiji we decided Kamakura would be a good half-day trip from Tokyo, and it couldn't have been more soothing. Mario is…

  • An evening in Yokohama

    Day 4 · Yokohama, Kanagawa

    Before heading home on the 4th day, we stopped by Minato Mirai 21, a large modern area in Yokohama, the second largest city in Japan. One…

  • Be one with Nikko

    Day 5 · Nikko, Tochigi

    After a hefty, Hawaiian-themed breakfast, we hopped on the Shinkansen to visit some of the UNESCO World Heritage temples and shrines of…

  • Piss Alley

    Day 5 · Omoide Yokocho, Tokyo

    When we got to Tokyo after visiting Nikko we were starving, and what's the best place to have a late dinner if not Shinjuku? We got out of…

  • High up in Roppongi

    Day 6 · Roppongi, Tokyo

    Roppongi is a big shopping district and from Roppongi Hills, a 50 something story high building, you can see Tokyo from above, and it's…

  • Matsuri in Asakusa

    Day 6 · Asakusa, Tokyo

    On the last Saturday of July the yukatas got out of the closets and headed to a summer festival in Asakusa. Without knowing it, we did the…

  • Fun at DisneySea

    Day 7 · DisneySea, Tokyo

    The plan was simple: take the train to Odaiba and spend the day there, taking in the Tokyo Bay area sights. But Disney Tokyo was on the…

  • See you later, Tokyo

    Day 8 · Shibuya, Tokyo

    This was our last day in Tokyo before going to Kyoto, and it couldn't have been better. We decided to keep it simple and walk from…

  • Yokoso Kyoto!

    Day 9 · Kyoto, Japan

    It was time to get on the train and head to Kyoto for a break from hectic Tokyo. The Shinkansen is definitely the way to travel — it's…

  • 9h sleep

    Day 9 · Kyoto, Japan

    The concept is simple: 9 hours. One hour to check-in and shower, seven hours to sleep in your pod, and an additional hour to get ready in…

  • Nijo and its gardens

    Day 10 · Nijo Castle, Kyoto

    On the first full day in Kyoto we dragged ourselves through the streets, under the scorching sun, with the goal of visiting the Imperial…

  • Memories in Maruyama

    Day 10 · Maruyama Park, Kyoto

    Despite an amazing sightseeing walk, the morning had been rough. Relaxation was in order and Maruyama park was our place of choice.…

  • Eastern Kyoto

    Day 11 · Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto

    By the third day we knew Kyoto is a big city. The rhythm is very different from Tokyo but things are more spread out and you have to walk a…

  • Magical Kiyomizu-dera

    Day 11 · Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto

    A few hours later, walking from Ginkaku-ji, we got to Kiyomizu-dera, a temple in the middle of the mountains that leaves everyone in…

  • Bamboo & Monkeys

    Day 12 · Arashiyama, Kyoto

    By the third day in Kyoto we knew already that everything was pretty spread apart, so we needed to rent bikes to see what we wanted to…

  • Precious Kinkaku-ji

    Day 12 · Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto

    After seeing the macaques we pedalled for 40 minutes until we reached the Kinkaku-ji, a golden Japanese temple that is quite the…

  • Visiting Osaka

    Day 13 · Osaka, Japan

    The plan was to go to Osaka and spend the day there, but we were completely defeated by the sun and heat. We did, however, managed to visit…

  • Fushimi Inari Shrine

    Day 13 · Inari, Kyoto

    Guarded by foxes, the messengers of Inari, we hiked the path of the thousand red torii, exploring Mount Inari and its inner shrines,…

  • Tanabata Festival

    Day 13 · Kamogawa Bank, Kyoto

    The Milky Way separated the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi, but they are allowed to meet once every year, which is of course the perfect…

  • Shiraume ryokan

    Day 14 · Ryokan Shiraume, Kyoto

    The art of welcoming guests is very present in the Japanese culture. Whether you are just a confused tourist at the station, or you need…

  • Kaiseki Dinner

    Day 14 · Ryokan Shiraume, Kyoto

    After the amazing bath experience, we felt refreshed and new, so we got into our yukatas and headed to the dining room for our twelve…

  • Rise and shine

    Day 15 · Ryokan Shiraume, Kyoto

    After a well-rested night we were ready for a second round of the gorgeous and delicious Japanese traditional cuisine. And then Shiraume…

  • Peace at Shoren-in

    Day 15 · Shoren-in, Kyoto

    The original plan for the afternoon after coming back from the ryokan was to take the train to Nara, but Tomoko-san and Satoko-san gave us…

  • Deer Nara

    Day 16 · Nara, Japan

    The night before, we had talked about day 16 being our last in Kyoto and, although something was missing, we couldn't put our finger on it.…

  • Hi again, Tokyo

    Day 17 · Akihabara, Toyko

    The last days of our trip were reserved to fully enjoy Tokyo without any type of pressure and to get some shopping done. We headed to…

  • Newfangled Odaiba

    Day 17 · Odaiba, Tokyo

    After the previous failed attempt to visit Odaiba, the afternoon was dedicated to wander around the huge artificial island in Tokyo Bay,…

  • Tsukiji lush

    Day 18 · Tsukiji Market, Tokyo

    This was our last full day in Tokyo and the plan was simple: head to Tsukiji market early in the morning, for gift shopping, head to the…

  • The last stroll

    Day 18 · Chiyoda, Tokyo

    We got our market stroll and shopping done before the morning was half gone, so walked to the Imperial Palace gardens to try to see the…

  • Mata ne, Nippon

    Day 19 · Narita, Tokyo

    Our last day in Japan would have been uneventful, if not for the last minute hassle. We nearly missed our flight, which wouldn't be so…