JAPAN | Sunday, 17 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Saturday, 16 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
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Fuji to Tokyo
We enjoyed one of the best hotel buffet breakfasts, so far on this tour, this morning. Well fuelled for another busy day. We made our first stop at Gotemba Peace Park. The park has a large white stupa dedicated to Buddha; And is protected ... Read more >
JAPAN | Friday, 15 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Thursday, 14 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Thursday, 14 Nov 2019 | Views [224]
Matsumoto to Fuji
The Japan Jaunt continued today with the main target the mountain – Fuji San. Negotiating mountain highways through beautiful autumn coloured forests and wide valleys on motorways, Hiro drove us onward. As we drew ... Read more >
JAPAN | Wednesday, 13 Nov 2019 | Views [229]
Nagano to Matsumoto
We made our first stop this morning at the beautiful Zenkoji Buddhist temple founded over 1400 years ago, and the home to one of the first Buddha statues brought to Japan. We strolled through the gardens in the warm sunshine, with ... Read more >
JAPAN | Wednesday, 13 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Tuesday, 12 Nov 2019 | Views [230]
Takayama to Nagano
Another hotel, another restless night, another interesting buffet breakfast. Bags packed and ready to leave at 9. We spent the morning exploring further around Takayama city, with our first stop at the Matsuri-no-mori museum. This ... Read more >
JAPAN | Monday, 11 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
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Day 8 Kanazawa to Takayama
Time to zip up our suitcases again and travel to a new town, Takayama. Our route took us out of the city and up into and through the mountains, literally, to the Gifu prefecture. The mountains in this area a traversed by ... Read more >
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Kanazawa – on our own
It’s Rod’s birthday. A free day found us in slow motion for a while. It was Sunday after all. And when we did move, our first stop was for coffee not too far away. Then a short stroll to see if Godburger was ... Read more >
JAPAN | Sunday, 10 Nov 2019 | Views [206]
Kanazawa
Our Kanazawa accommodation is a brand new hotel opened just last week. Although our rooms are cosy and compact, the beds are comfortable and the shower fabulous. Breakfast, on the other hand, not so much. So after a green tea and a croissant ... Read more >
JAPAN | Saturday, 9 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
Kanazawa
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Kyoto to Kanazawa
Dressed and breakfasted, we made a quick dash around to Kurasu Kyoto ( https://jp.kurasu.kyoto/ ) to grab a good morning latte before checking out of our hotel and boarding Hiro’s bus for the day’s adventures.
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JAPAN | Friday, 8 Nov 2019 | Views [166]
Did you ever wonder just how many steps you could get your gadget to read in one day? Well, I don’t have one but the tall people do 😊 Day 4 was a busy day and they tell me we took about 22000+. Now for my short legs I reckon I did about another ... Read more >
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Today began with a not too early start and the standard breakfast buffet to fuel us for what we thought would be a fairly cruisey day. Little did we know! Keiko and Hiro met us and we loaded our luggage and ourselves on to the bus. A short ride took ... Read more >
JAPAN | Tuesday, 5 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
Kyoto
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We are a group of 10 Aussie travellers. Most of our group hail from south of the Queensland border. Our guide Keiko met us after breakfast this morning outside in the sun. Our bus driver Hiro was ready to take us to Nara. We enjoyed our walk from the ... Read more >
JAPAN | Monday, 4 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
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