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Lessons From Hiroshima
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 7 February 2012
On the 15th August 1945, ‘Little Boy’ exploded directly above the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall instantly killing everyone inside. The crumbling skeleton of the building stands as a haunting monument to the tens of thousands that died immediately and in the decades that followed.
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Busiest Train Station In The World – Millions Go Through Here!
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 7 February 2012
The Busiest Train Station In The World. It’s no surprise that the Busiest Train Station In The World is also located in the Biggest City in The World – Tokyo,...
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Mt. Mashu (摩周岳)
Blog: Hiking in Japan - 6 February 2012
Perched on the shores of a stellar volcanic lake, Mt. Mashu offers a chance to experience a taste of the Hokkaido backcountry without a huge climb to get there. It may also offer your best opportunity to spot the elusive Japanese brown bear. The hike: The trail starts at the end of the massive parking [...]
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A Quiet, Snowy Village in Japan
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 3 February 2012
Ouchijuku Village, Japan For some reason, these photos look calm. Yet in reality, a blizzard raged and the muted glow of the snow-plough’s headlights provided just enough light to let me capture this scene: fragile, snow-cloaked candles beneath an otherwise relentless black sky. Sleet assaulted our eyes, abraded our cheeks and hounded our cameras, while [...]
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Itsukushima Shrine Torii at low tide
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 1 February 2012
The Itsukushima Shrine’s Otorii (Grand Gate) from the Miyajima Island is probably the most famous torii from Japan. It is so famous that there is a high probability that an image featuring this torii was among the very first Japanese pictures you ever saw…
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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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Love Hotels In Japan – now with Free Wi-fi!
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 31 January 2012
Love Hotels Hi Tech! If you’re ever in Japan and you’re walking down the street with your boyfriend/girlfriend and feeling a bit frisky, then you can rent a ‘Love Hotel‘...
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The eucalyptus that survived the atomic bomb
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 30 January 2012
I learned a long time ago about the survivor trees from Hiroshima (called hibaku jumoku in Japanese), the trees that survived the atomic explosion, holly trees, silent witnesses of a horrific event that should never repeat…
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Travel Tips for Tokyo
Blog: My Little Nomads - 27 January 2012
When to go, where to go, and which hotels are the best. Continue reading → Related Articles: Kid-Friendly Hotels In Tokyo Tokyo With Kids – The Best and Funnest Things To Do
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Nagoya Castle, birds-eye view and a travel tip
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 25 January 2012
Built at the orders of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Nagoya Castle was located in a strategic place, to stop the attacks coming from Osaka. The castle was finished in 1612 while the adjacent Hommaru Palace was completed three years later, in 1615. In 1930, the Nagoya Castle’s donjon (tenshu) and the palace were the first Japanese castles designated as National Treasures.
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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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Romantic evenings in Kyoto
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 20 January 2012
There are so many places to spend an evening in Kyoto… Most tourists choose to go to Gion, the famous geisha district, especially on Hanami-koji-dori or on Shirakawa-minami-dori… and there are many other great options.
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How We Find Apartments Around the World
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 19 January 2012
View from our apartment in Medellin, Colombia. We may be travelling permanently but this doesn’t mean we spend all our time in hostels and hotels. Living in hotels may seem a glamourous life but it gets old fast. After a while we crave a couch, reliable internet and a kitchen so we don’t have to [...]
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Inspiration – How Japan changed the way we travel
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 18 January 2012
If we can make it in Japan, we can make it everywhere! That was our mantra back in 1996 when we headed to the land of the Rising Sun. Everybody told us Japan was such a strange country. Indeed, Japan was not a very popular travel destination back in 1996, mainly because it was seen as too different and not many people were able to speak English.
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Remembering the Great Hanshin earthquake
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 17 January 2012
17 years ago, a powerful earthquake stroke the city of Kobe and its surroundings. It was at the time the most powerful earthquake to hit Japan after the Great Kantō earthquake from 1923 and remained recorded in history as the Great Hanshin earthquake. 6434 people lost their lives, the majority of them in Kobe (4571).
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Takadanobaba, a perfect view from my window
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 16 January 2012
The story of Takadanobaba starts in 1636, when the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu built in Totsuka, Shinjuku, a place for horse racing, a baba in Japanese. The place soon became one of the favorite places of Matsudaira Tadateru, the 6th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the area became known as Takatanobaba, after the name of Tadateru’s mother, Takata, who was often visiting the place. In time, the “t” from Takata was changed to “d", but the elders are still calling it like this, while the young people are starting to call it just “Baba".
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Time Disappears
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 14 January 2012
Time, this week, played tricks on me. An illusion: disappearing, twisting, sliding and slipping away… This photo, from the kamakura matsuri or igloo festival in Tohoku, Japan last year, just seemed to fit for this week’s Photo Friday. The region had just recovered from one of the harshest winters on record – and yet none [...]
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Vending Machines in Japan – Beer, Noodles and Anything Else!
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 13 January 2012
Japanese Vending Machines – Dispense Almost Anything! One thing that I spotted my my G Adventures trip to Japan were the abundance of Vending Machines that one could buy almost anything from.
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The Samurai frogs from Matsumoto
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 12 January 2012
The main attraction in Matsumoto is obviously the Matsumoto castle, but the city has a lot more to offer to the discerning tourist… The Nawate Dori (located near the castle’s entrance), with its small restaurants, food shops and antique stores is a great place to spend some time immersed in the local customs. And you will certainly be amazed by the omnipresent frog-themed objects!
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The cost of backpacking in Japan
Blog: Leave Me Here - 11 January 2012
Break open the piggy bank? 6,669 Yen, per day. ($84 AU) Some quick conversions for the rest of the world 1 Euro = 98 Yen $1 US = 77 Yen $1 CA = 75 Yen $1 AU = 75 Yen Over the course of a few weeks, on average, thats what we spent per day [...]
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Sleeping with Monks: A Night in a Japanese Temple in Koya-San
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 10 January 2012
It took eight modes of transport to get to Koya-san from Kyoto: metro, bullet train, metro, train, bus, train, cable car, bus.
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Matsumoto, the Crow Castle
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 8 January 2012
Located in the Nagano Prefecture, the Matsumoto Castle is one of the four Japanese castles designated as National Treasure of Japan, (together with the Hikone Castle, the Himeji Castle and the Inuyama Castle).
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Japanese Onsen (Spa/Hot Tub) Warning – Dead Drunk!
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 6 January 2012
Japanese Onsen Spa/Hot Tub Funny! Today I have a funny travel photo from Cara who I met on a cool G Adventures trip to Japan. It’s of a Funny Warning Sign she...
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Vagobond Travel Museum – Curating travel around the web – 6 Jan 2012
Blog: Vagobond.com - 6 January 2012
Each Friday, I will bring you the highlights here at the Vagobond Travel Museum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
