Category: Japan
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Island Hopping (Asia 2023 Part 4)
It has been a while, but it’s time to get back to Japan. The car opened up a lot of opportunities for exploration of the main island of Okinawa, but there was no need for motorised transport on the smallest islands we visited. Ferrying out to Aka island on a high speed boat was a…
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Gohan ご飯. It’s not just Rice (Asia 2023 Part 3)
Gohan ご飯 refers to cooked rice, but in a broader sense it can mean food or any meal. And broadly speaking, this installment in the series is all about food encountered in Japan and Korea. I have been a fan of Japanese cuisine ever since trying sushi made by my brother many years ago. He…
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Driving Miss Evie (Asia 2023 Part 2)
It has been an exhausting transition back from holiday mode to work. It hasn’t been helped by the eight hour time difference and illness brewing in the background. I’m picking up from where I left off last time. We’re in a rental car office in Naha, Okinawa on a beautifully sunny day… After a couple…
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Izakaya By Name…
…izakaya by nature. It’s a mini travel blog incorporating all of your favourite things: food, Japan and impulse buying! Don’t worry though, I have been playing more Hollow Knight, Mortal Shell (where you control a different kind of hollow knight), and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Fewer games have been played in the run up to the…
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Kerama Blue and Aka Island – Japan 2019 – Part 6
Part 6 of Japan 2019. If you need to catch up, Part 5 is here. Apologies for the hiatus! It has been a busy few months, between trying to buy a house in Plymouth, moving to a new city and starting a new job. Now it’s time to get back to the non-day job. Packed…
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OkinaWOW – Japan 2019 – Part 5
Part 5 in the Japan 2019 series. Part 4 is here. I hadn’t quite anticipated being out the night before out 5 o’clock start. Narita airport isn’t exactly close, hence we were on the airport train at 6am. We were flying with Jetstar, a low cost airline, but because we were taking hold luggage we got…
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Shibuya and Shabu Shabu – Part 4 – Japan 2019
Part 4 in the Japan 2019 series. Part 3 is here. Like so many places in Japan, Shibuya crossing is unique. Two thousand five hundred pedestrians crossing with each signal change at rush hour. A crazed mass of people moving in every direction. It’s a tad overwhelming. Just pick a point and keep walking towards it. After…
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Twokyo – Part 3 – Japan 2019
Part 3 in the Japan 2019 series. Part 2 is here. I’ve been away at a conference and we’re in the midst of trying to buy a house, so I’m a bit busy, but it’s time to pick up where we left off. Calm down, it’s not what you’re thinking. We didn’t eat puppies, and…
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Touring Tokyo – Part 2 – Japan 2019
Part 2 in my Japan 2019 series. If you’ve missed the first part, you can catch up here. The excitement of making it to Tokyo was dampened by a lengthy immigration queue. This is one of few seemingly inefficient processes in Japan. It took a long time back in 2015, and four years later it…
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Hair of the Dog that Bitte – Part 1 – Japan 2019
Taking inspiration from a good friend, and combined with my need to pun from time to time, I hope you enjoy the title. Our journey begins in the early hours of the 18th of May, driving down a deserted motorway (not really, but this adds to the drama) to the not-so-London Heathrow airport. Yes, this…
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