Musings

Toyama Castle and Matsukura Park visited, we continued on foot for another 15 minutes to the Toyama Glass Art Museum: I wasn’t expecting much from the Glass Art Museum but had also neglected to do much pre-trip reading about it.

Day 10’s itinerary would be based around Toyama, and we’d be visiting up to six places: Matsukawa Park => Toyama Castle => Toyama Glass Art Museum => Ikeda Yasubei Shoten => Starbucks @ Kansui Park => Toyama Tower Observatory. The

The second leg of our 2022 15 day to Kansai Japan is centered around Kanazawa. So, shortly after our vacation start and end dates were confirmed in September and the main region of travel decided upon, we quickly went about

We left Tojinbo on the No. 84 11:54AM bus heading back to Awara Onsen Station – bus fare again ¥790 for adults – and by the time we were back at Fukui, it was 1:45PM. The weather in Fukui continued

The north-western side of Japan where we’ve been basing the Days 07 to 11 and second segment of trip continued to see snowfall for the second day. On Day 09, our itinerary was to head in the direction of Fukui,

Naga-machi is the third district we listed in Kanazawa to check-out. Like the other two from yesterday – Higashi Chaya and Kazue-machi Chaya – this area comprises old traditional and well-preserved houses, and in this case residences of Samurai who

Just before we exited Kanazawa Castle Park via Nezumita-mon Gate and continued towards Oyama Shrine, we chanced upon the Gyokusen-inmaru Park: This small landscaped Japanese garden sits in front of a tea-house that had enthusiastic staff who explained the history

Our Day 08 itinerary actually has four places we’re checking out: Kenrokuen, Kanazawa Castle Park, Oyama Shrine, then finally Naga-machi District. All four are actually near to each other and within easy walking distance – thought that the weather was

No matter what the adults schedule for our family vacation itinerary, the kids – or Peter at the very least – has been really looking forward to just one thing this trip: and that’s snow. Lots of it. When we

Kazue-machi Chaya District is just literally across the road, and far quieter in comparison; I suspect largely because there are far fewer dining and retail establishments. If you’d like to just soak in the serenity of strolling beside Asano river,

We checked out of Almont Hotel Kyoto early morning planning to catch the 8:10AM Thunderbird 5 Limited Express train to Kanazawa, but secretly hoping to catch an earlier train if we could. But we got a little lost at Kyoto

The Kyoto hotel we opted for in the first segment of our 15 day trip was Almont Hotel Kyoto. Like the other hotels we booked for our 2019 family trip in Japan, we had three requirements: that it could fit