Musings

Our notes recording selected things we dine on this 18 day trip to Japan! This is a long visual record, so it’s split into two parts. Continued in the next post that covers Days 09 to 18!

Continued from the last post! Day 9 (Kawagoe) Kawagoe – Temples and Kanetsuki-dori Street (2 hrs) [blog post here]: This was another pleasant day-trip that we made out of Tokyo. The place is easy to get to, and it’s also

This has been our longest family vacation at 18 days, and it was a rare opportunity for us to be able to take such a holiday. The vacation went remarkably well: we were able to hit most of our planned

The fifth and last of our blog entries observing our places of stay this 18 day trip to Japan! We stayed at the APA Hotel Keisei Ueno Ekimae for just one night, so our notes would be probably limited by

Our final day in Japan, and this would be a post recording our experiences of arriving at Narita and leaving Japan! Firstly, perhaps it’s a Singaporean thing to over-plan and over-compensate when it comes to traveling. But we had been

Day 17 today was our last major relocation from Nagano prefecture back to Tokyo. We initially toyed with the idea of racing from Nagano to Tokyo and flying home on the same day, but we couldn’t find a suitable flight

We were targeting to stay within Nagano city and close to the train station for the Nagano segment of our trip months ago early on in our planning. Unfortunately, there seemed to be relatively few hotels around the train station,

So many people have already made this trip to see the snow monkeys at Jigokudani Monkey Park that it’s hard to really add any further value in any blog post about our visit. But perhaps I’d angle my post here

Day 16! And our last full day in the Nagano prefecture, we’d booked through Klook a day visit to a highland for snow activities and to also visit that very famous snow monkey park. In a sense, this day trip