I mean, I've woken up to worse views in the morning! We headed to Kyoto in the morning but not before heading to the morning market in Takayama. below you can see a cookie based coffee that I had. It was probably one of the best coffees I've had and eating the cup afterwards was…
Memoirs of a Geisha
The one with the temple stay
Today was an early start but I didn't mind as I got to ride the bullet train. This bad boy speeds along at over 300km/h and had the most comfortable seats as well. Along the way we also got to see Mount Fiji which was in-cred-able! The front of our accommodation in Takayama city which…
Mount Hakone
Wouldn't it be great to see Mount Fuji? We attempted to do this from the beautiful Mount Hakone which is also home to some lovely smelly sulphur and black eggs. To get there we needed to travel on 4 different modes of transportation which included two trains, a tram and a rope walk. You don't…
I learnt to make sushi!
Today was fun! Started the day at the Tsukiji Fish Market where I ate a sea snail and then learnt to make one of my favourite foods! I'm sure you can work it out by the title of this post. Needless to say it tasted great and I'll probably forget how to do it when…
The one where I got to play with two otters
Before I talk about the subject title of this post I'll give a quick rundown of the day. Woke up nice and early for a traditional Japanese breakfast of boiled eggs, yogurt and a banana (not in the same dish...) and then headed out to the local market. After what was a seemingly endless walk…
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Maid cafes, arcades and meeting the new group
The titles for my blog posts are getting less inventive or maybe I'm just not funny anymore. I went to geek central Akihabara which is full of arcades, retro games, anime and VR porn cafes. Yeah that's right, you can watch porn in VR in your own private room for a fee. Unfortunately I can't…
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Exploring Tokyo
Oh Japan! If you ever come here prepare to do a lot of pointing as most of them cannot speak a word of English. Not that I'm complaining of course as my charade skills have levelled up immensely. Tokyo is something else though as you will see in the following pictures. The morning sun from…
Land of the rising sun
I'm in the country I've been looking forward to visit for a long long time! I am finally in Japan, the home of ramen and sushi! Very very excited right now. I can't check into the hotel until 3pm (it's currently 9:30am) so that means I'm going to have a very confused wander around as…
A day trip to Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation
Adventure day! First stop was Enterprise where they didn't have the car that I booked online so that means an automatic upgrade, not that's a problem for me. It was a lovely Mitsubishi SUV and driving it has now made me want one.. After picking up my friend from my NZ tour we started the…
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Cairns Botanical Garden
Another chilled day for me as I found that there was a cute little garden near my apartment (seems to happen a lot here..) so I got myself out and about in 30 degrees weather for a walk. Being Sunday most of the exhibitions were closed but it was still worth a look. It was…