Internationally renowned for it’s immense speed, today we went on the bullet train! We’ve traveled from Hiyoshi by Yokohama to Kyoto which took just under 2 hours- the google map linked there reckons this should be about 4 hours sans-bullet train!
The train itself does look proper futuristic from the outside, and the inside is really spacious- but [...]
Today we had a lay in until like 11:30 which after the last few days of non stop sight seeing and shopping was a welcome break. This is, afterall, a holiday.
When we eventually did get up and about, after a hearty breakfast/lunch provided by Satoko’s culinary gifted mum we headed out to Shibuya (at the [...]
We arrived in Japan- just about ready to die from tiredness and the heat. Spent a few hours going around their train system– which took a while to work out; you dont just buy a ticket to a station- you have to look at the little map,work out how much it costs, then you buy [...]
