I like travelling alone. That way, I've only got one idiot to worry about.
Now that the coverage of my February 2014 holiday in Japan has come to an end, let’s step back a few months and finish telling the story of an earlier journey: my October 2013 family trip to Seoul.
This post is a continuation of that account from the last one in the series, which can be accessed here.
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Before we move on to my other adventures, let’s cap off the coverage of my winter 2014 trip to Japan by going over the flight back home.
Not much to report for the last few hours of my winter journey across Japan, but I’m not one to leave a day undocumented.
Continue reading “Field Report: Tōkyō, Japan (15 February 2014)”
Diego dearly loves his meat, but he’s no stranger to meatless cuisine (especially on Veg Fridays). Today, let’s have a look at one of Tōkyō’s better-known places of refuge for desperate vegetarians.
We’re on the last leg of Diego’s winter visit to Japan. There isn’t much more left to say, so let’s start rounding things off by looking at how I spent my last night in Tōkyō.
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Today, we’re off to see one of Japan’s finest railway museums – stocked with trains, trains, trains, as far as the eye could see.
Continue reading “Field Report: Nagoya, Japan (14 February 2014)”
Regular readers might be scratching their heads over the “mini” prefix in this post’s title, but I’ll have more to say on that later. For the moment, the task at hand is to savour one of Nagoya’s signature dishes, miso katsu.
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There’s more to Nagoya than its famous castle – and more than I can hope to see in just one day. No worries, we’ll hit a couple of other sights before the sun goes down.
On today’s agenda: the castle lord’s private possessions, his former backyard garden, and wondrous mechanical conveyances that not even all of his wealth and power could have bought (mainly because they hadn’t been invented yet).
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Another day, another castle. Diego travels to the historic city of Nagoya and visits one of its most prominent landmarks.
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Old-fashioned onsen bathing is an experience one normally associates with resort towns or rustic mountain hideaways, but Matsuyama’s own hot spring district brings the experience a little closer to downtown.
Continue reading “Field Report: Matsuyama, Japan (12 February 2014) – Part 3/3”
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