Mt Fuji
To get from Osaka to the Mt Fuji area using our JR train pass, we had to take six different trains. When the lady at the ticket window handed us […]
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Osaka
From Kyoto, it’s only about a 45-minute train ride to Osaka. After arriving in Osaka and getting a bite to eat, we headed to Osaka Bay. The bay area is […]
Kyoto
Kyoto is the one place on our Japan itinerary that I had been to before; I was here in September 2000 as part of Semester at Sea. There are two […]
Tokyo
One of our first impressions of Tokyo was that it’s impressively clean, which is not something we’ve come to expect from large cities. We didn’t see any trash on the […]
Goodbye USA…Hello Tokyo
We made it Tokyo! We got here via LA on Singapore Airlines; we’d never flown with them before, but had heard good things. Gotta say, we were impressed. Each seat […]
Jay and Joann's Journey 