Category: travel
Tokyo German Village – Winter Illumination
Tokyo German Village is a park in Chiba, located about two hours from central Tokyo. The park offers facilities for…
Taking the Highway Bus in Japan
Trains in Japan are excellent but pricy, especially long distance ones. If you are lucky enough to stay in the…
Ushiku: Great Buddha and Fireworks
Talking about Japanese towns with great Buddha statues, one would likely mention Nara or Kamakura. But the Ushiku Daibutsu dwarves…
Turning NEX train seats
One of the great features of many Japanese trains is that the seats always face the driving direction. Personally I’m…
From Hakodate to Sendai by train – going underground
The Shinkansen bullet-train is one of the trademarks of Japan, yet, there’s no Shinkansen on Hokkaido. Routes have been proposed…
An evening in Otaru
There is one other city in Hokkaido I visited during this trip to Japan: Otaru. Otaru is close to Sapporo…
Iris Flower Festival in Itako
This is maybe the biggest iris flower festival in the Kanto region and it involved a longer train ride via…
Soka – あ、草加？ Visiting Soka in Saitama
Some places I only visit because I find their name particularly interesting. “Reading” near London is an example, “Naganuma Park”…
Hachioji Matsuri
Ice sculptures in Summer and outside? In Japan, this doesn’t seem too unusual. I’ve seen an ice sculpture exhibition near…
Todoroki Valley
Just leaving the train station and looking around, many places seem to look the same. But Tokyo is full of…
