Slow train to big city
26 October 2016
Taking the slow train from Kanazawa to Kyoto
Now I am in Kyoto, I will be here for 2 nights, I have been here twice before, it is the main tourist centre of Japan. Whilst it is not a big city....
The tiniest place on earth
14 March 2014
I knew that I had booked a tiny hotel room in Osaka, and thats exactly what I got. I also knew that finding it was apparently quite difficult, bec....
No more rain
13 March 2014
Various weather radars suggested it was going to stop raining. The quality of this data compared to bom.gov.au was really crappy though, so I came....
The unrelenting downpour
13 March 2014
The rain did indeed come as predicted. I think its only supposed to last today. It never stopped raining, but then never rained hard either. Still....
Night temple
12 March 2014
I was surprised to find that some of the temples and surrounding gardens are open at night. By open I mean, you can walk all around the buildings ....
Kyoto is small
11 March 2014
This evening I discovered that Kyoto is really quite small, something I suspected after seeing it from the top of a hill this morning. I also foun....
Dont pet the monkeys
11 March 2014
Today in a shocking development, I followed my mothers suggestion and went to Arashiyama. There are many things to do here if you are a tourist, b....
Snowstorm
10 March 2014
Before today I never really experienced it snowing. A couple of years ago in Osaka I detected a few seconds of what might have been snow, but I wa....
Not so cold
10 March 2014
Now I am in Japan. Not only am I in Japan but I am on a fast train travelling from a man made island in the sea that taunts tsunamis typing on my ....