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Travel Japan
Blog: My Little Nomads - 31 January 2012
The Best Articles and Info for Traveling in Japan. Continue reading → Related Articles: Washington DC With Kids – The Best Things To Do Cheap Hotels In New York City
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Solo Travel Destination: Japan
Blog: Solo Traveler - 31 January 2012
A Solo Travel Society member recommends Japan as a safe and exciting destination for a first solo journey.
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Sake Bomb – How To Drink One In Japan
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 24 January 2012
Sake Bomb – Enough of them will blow your head off! A Sake Bomb is a beer cocktail created by pouring Sake (a Japanese spirit distilled from rice) into a shot...
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Trips and Tours In Japan – The G Adventures Option and Review
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 19 December 2011
Some Japanese Trip and Tour Stuff! I’ve just come back from my first official gig as a Wanderer in Residence for G Adventures. What this means is that they have...
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AirAsia X First Flight to Osaka, Japan
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 8 December 2011
AirAsia X's First Flight to Osaka, Japan was commenced on the 30th November 2011 which took off from the LCCT in Sepang, Malaysia. As this is the second largest city in Japan, this is also the second destination after Haneda, Tokyo for AirAsiaX.
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Shinsaibashi Shopping District in Osaka, Japan
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 5 December 2011
Shinsaibashi Shopping District in Osaka, Japan is my picture of the week. I just returned from an amazing trip to Osaka in early December 2011 and found Japan's second largest city simply fascinating. If you love shopping, then Shinsaibashi (心斎橋) is the place for you to visit.
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Osaka Crab Restaurant
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 13 November 2011
Some of the many Japanese food specialties for which Osaka is renowned are the crab dishes (kani in Japanese). There are many Japanese crab menus, some of them popular overseas, too: crab sashimi, crab sushi rolls, kani-suki (crab hot-pot), charcoal-grilled crab, crab tempura…
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Osaka With Kids
Blog: My Little Nomads - 21 October 2011
The Best Things To Do With Kids In Osaka. Continue reading →Read the entire article here: Osaka With Kids Or go straight to The Paris With Kids Guide
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Osaka Castle's Mysterious Giant Stones
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 10 October 2011
One of the most interesting discoveries I made during my visit to Osaka Castle is the special interest of the constructors for giant stones. The wall surrounding the castle includes 5 colossal stones over 100 tons and 15 stones over 50 tons! And the method of construction, how these giant stones were assembled together, is still a mystery…
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Japan Architecture - Gate Tower, the Skyscraper Pierced by a Highway
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 23 September 2011
One of the most interesting images seen in Osaka from the Umeda Sky Building observatory was this famous skyscraper traversed by a highway, the Gate Tower Building. Interesting, there is no connection between the two structures, the highway passes through the building like a tunnel, wrapped in the noise protection walls visible in the photo. Also, the floors 5, 6 and 7, adjacent to the highway contain only elevators, stairways and machinery.
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Visiting Osaka, Climbing in Shitennoji Pagoda
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 24 August 2011
The Shitennoji Temple was established by Prince Shotoku, son of Emperor Yomei, the 31st emperor of Japan, in the year 593. An amazing fact is that although during its history the building was destroyed several times, it was always carefully rebuilt to maintain the original design. This is one of the must see places in Osaka, and that’s not only because it is the oldest official temple in Japan. It’s because this is one of the few five-story pagodas where the access inside is allowed and you can climb right to the top… it is a unique experience!
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Chindon'ya, Japanese marching band
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 21 July 2011
Japan is known as a traditionalist country, but even here, in time some traditional occupations disappear. One of them is the Japanese marching band, chindon’ya, street performers advertising shops or pachinko parlors, like in this picture taken in Shibuya.
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Osaka's Dotonbori and Aquarium
Blog: nateniale { reflections on my travels and everything else I love } - 14 November 2010
{ Japan April 2010 - Day 7 & 8 - Osaka } We reached Osaka in the late afternoon and by the time we got to our hotel, which was supposed to be less than 10 minutes walking distance from the train station, the sun was already setting. The reason? We got lost in the huge, complicated and confusing Shin-Osaka Station. Armed with a Japanese map of the hotel, we were walking up and down the stairs, walking towards various exits with the numbers shown in the map, and ended up lost in the huge station.
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Osaka to Shanghai on the Su Zhou Hao Ferry
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 13 September 2010
I can't say that I am much of one for slow travel. I get impatient and anxious if I am in a city for more than a just few days. This is partly because I would rather pack more in my travel allotment, accounting for time and money, then spending more time at one particular spot.
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Train Museums in Japan – Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka
Blog: My Little Nomads - 11 September 2010
Visiting some of the fantastic train museums in Japan.READ MORE AT: Train Museums in Japan – Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families Most emailed post: A Cancun Family Vacation — Things To Do with Kids
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Culture Shock in Japan!
Blog: nateniale { reflections on my travels and everything else I love } - 14 April 2010
It was hard to believe that Japan is a country in Asia and only 7 hours away on the flight from Singapore. It was extremely different from all the Asian countries that I have been to - no, make that all the countries that I have been to. Japan is a land of contradictions....
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Two Days on the Sea of Japan
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 9 March 2010
This is the second of three posts on traveling in Japan on a budget. Yesterday, I wrote about the overall costs of a Japan trip.
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Out of the tourist track in Japan
Blog: World Travel Blog - 26 February 2010
Travel to small shrines and local restaurants. When I was living in Japan I had many chances to walk around the places I lived, and although I moved 3 times only I was in different part of towns (That’s Osaka) and despite being so distant they have one thing in common. All around the local [...]
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Transport in Japan (outside the JR lines)
Blog: World Travel Blog - 22 November 2009
Japan isn’t a big country really, at least if you compare it with other destinations as China, India, USA or even my home country, Argentina. Despite that I think Japan has the most extensive transportation system I have ever seen, including trains, subways, metro, tram, busses, monorail, cable cars… and they are all linked to [...]
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Osaka
Blog: Where is Rob? - 18 November 2009
Well originally I wasn't too up for going to Osaka. I'd read a bit about it and it didn't seem like there was much there (apart from the possibility of a day trip to Nara but we could do that from Kyoto) but Tommy was quite up for it and wanted to see the sky building so we ended up going. It turned out to be a quality few days and was just real fun. First day we went to the aquarium and I saw [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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The Izakaya
Blog: Where is Rob? - 18 November 2009
Right so the evening began when at about 7 we headed to the reception to grab some food for the night. When we get down stairs we are greeted by a film crew filming this massive banquet the hostel seems to have put on for the cameras. So we grab a few plates and start talking to some of the other guests. It's was real nice and the food was possibly the nicest we have had the whole time we have [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Nara
Blog: Where is Rob? - 18 November 2009
One of the reasons we came to Osaka was the fact it is real easy to do a day trip to Nara from there. I had got talking to a few people in the hostel on the first night and they had mentioned that Nara University offer free guided tours round Nara by students and volunteers. Considering we were only going to spend a day there and the guide would be free, it was defiantly something we had to do. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Budgeting Your Time In Japan
Blog: Nihon Sun - 18 June 2009
Planning a trip to Japan or even travel within Japan is an exciting proposition that can easily get thrown into disarray once you are on the ground. One of the most common questions that we are asked in the Japan Discovered! weekly tweetchat goes something like this: “I have X days in Japan, can I [...]
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