Tag: JapanG
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Tour Title: Japan Express Tour Company: G Adventures Tour Leader: Tetsuji (Ted) Watanabe Cities Visited: Osaka, Koyasan (Mt Koya), Hiroshima, Kyoto, Hakone (Mt Fuji), Tokyo Dates: 7 May to 15 May 2015 (Duration 9 days) Tour Type This tour is listed as one of G Adventures Classic tours. In short the hotels you stay at will be good to very good, there will be some included…
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Friday 15 May 2015 Highlights: Skyscraper District, Akihabara electronic district A nice sleep in on my final day in Japan, using all the possible time until the 10 am check out since I didn’t originally have anything planned but that didn’t stop my roommate Alex from adding me to his plans for the day. With the…
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Thursday 14 May 2015 Highlights: Robot Show, Harajuku Takeshita Street, Tsukiji Fish Market, Farewell Dinner. After a relaxing nights sleep in our traditional ryokan room and a Western style included buffet breakfast it was time to say goodbye to Hakone and Mt Fuji and head to Tokyo which at least for me was a return to were…
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Wednesday 13 May 2015 Highlights: Mt Fuji, Lake Ashino-Ko, Hakone Gore Park, Kaiseki meal, Karaoke. We left Kyoto early to a beautiful morning, it seems we have seen the last of the rain. We gain send our main bags onto Tokyo and packed our day bags for one night’s stay. To get to Hakone we used several forms of…
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Tuesday 12 may 2015 Highlights: Tea Ceremony, Ninja Show, Golden Pavilion. Well the forecasters were right today was rain with more rain. Luckily the hotel provided umbrellas for those that needed it otherwise we would have drowned. First up was a visit to the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji, also known as Rokuon-ji, which is a Zen…
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Monday 11 May 2015 Highlights: Shrine Gates at Fushimi Inari-Taisha, Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, Sushi train. An early morning start leaving our hotel in Hiroshima for Kyoto that include two trains, the first was about 1 hour 30 minutes to Osaka and then another 15 minute bullet train to Kyoto. Our hotel (Ibis Kyoto) was right across from…
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Sunday 10 May 2015 Highlights: Shukkeien Garden, Miyajima Island Hike, Okonomiyaki dinner at Atom Restaurant. About half our group enjoyed the optional activity of a visit to the Shukkeien Garden a short walk from the hotel. The garden was tranquil having a very zen like feel. The fish were not afraid of man and were almost jumping…
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Saturday 9 May 2015 Highlights: Morning Prayers, Burning Ceremony, Monument to the Children, Hiroshima Peace Museum After a night sleeping on the relatively comfortable thin mattress on the floor it was an early morning wake up to join the monks in their 6.30 am prayers and chanting to welcome the day and acknowledge both the evil…
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Friday 8 May 2015 Highlights: Karukayado Monastery, Konpon Daito Temple, Konkobuji Temple, Oku-no-in Cemetery, Meditation with a monk. Today we moved to Koyasan, taking a number of trains, buses and a funicular to get to the height of the mountain. Due to the travel style with limited space we had sent our main bags onto…
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Thursday 7 May 2015 Highlights: Osaka Castle Today begins my next G Adventure tour, Japan Expess: Osaka to Tokyo. So this meant checking out of my single room and into a twin that I will later be sharing with fellow G Adventure traveller Alexander Taplin for the next 8 nights.
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