“All the Japanese food I ate on my Japan trip has been amazingly delicious. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in a hole in the wall restaurant or inside top to bottom glass doors restaurants; something I bought from 7-11 or vending machine“, I tried to convince Fafa to book a table at Jiro Sushi…
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I flew to Japan last Saturday with my best friends. My second Japan trip, to fulfil the pact we made at the airport three years ago, to come back again because it’s JAPAN! I dislike repeating things and for someone who hasn’t seen much of the world and with limited work leave, I shouldn’t…
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Shinjuku at night was busier and livelier than Shinjuku during the daytime. There was a 7-11 below the hotel so I got my goodies for the night, including various Onigiri, random coffee cans and a bottle of wine and went back to the hotel.…
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We are on a train travelling somewhere in a rural area of Japan. Yin keeps saying she doesn't feel like we are in Japan.…
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We only stayed for one night in Otaru. The day after we went to Furano. Maybe I can visit it again in the winter for a different experience.…
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Hokkaido was never high on my travel list; I had never included it in the list for the longest time, but here I am writing from Hokkaido.…
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When in Japan you must stay in a ryokan, a type of traditional Japanese hotel and experience the Japanese culture and lifestyle.…
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It was still drizzling when we entered the main gate of Okunoin. Located in Mount Koya in Koyasan Japan, Okunoin Cemetery is the biggest graveyard in the country. The ground was wet, the air carried a mossy smell while the rain made it foggy. The whole atmosphere of the place was filled tranquility, felt…
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Geisha is a Japanese hostess trained to entertain patrons with conversation and performance. Chasing Geisha in Gion, Kyoto What I knew about Geisha then was limited, based only on Michelle Yeoh’s hit movie Memories of Geisha. I tried to read the book but couldn’t finish it. But a few hours earlier, a Japanese taxi…
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We got off the Koyasan bus and dragged our luggage to Fukuchi-In. It’s a Shukubo, the Japanese temple lodging in which we would be staying the night. Yes, we were staying overnight in a Buddhist temple, an actual temple with live-in monks. It is a lovely place with serene vibes. We stored our luggage…
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