Today was a long day of traveling on subways, trains, busses, and cable cars. We arrived around 4pm at our ryokan, which was the Jokiin Buddhist Temple. Jokiin means always joyous. Koyasan is such a beautiful mountain town, though right now it was VERY cold. They had received some snow right before we arrived, and...Read More
Takayama is a sweet, smaller town with a population around 100,000. It is a very different pace than Tokyo, and reminds me more of home. I actually learned that Takayama is a sister city to Denver, and we did have some snow here, so that must be why I felt more at home here. This...Read More
Before I forget, I wanted to share a few pieces of information with you. Our guide, Charlie, asked us if we knew why the cherry blossom trees are so beautiful, and it was because they don’t have any leaves with the blossom. I never realized or thought of that, so I thought it was neat. ...Read More
The next day was our free day in Tokyo. Marshall, Paola and I decided to brave the subway stations together (we figured getting lost in a group would be more comforting than getting lost alone). The subways are really great here and very straightforward, so good news, we didn’t get lost. We went to Ueno...Read More
Well today on our scheduled itinerary, we were supposed to go to Kamakura, but there was a huge storm coming in, and our guide, Charlie, advised us that the trains often close down for these types of storms and he did not want us to get stuck (another group a while back had this happen...Read More
Today was a busy but fun-filled day! We started the morning going to the Tsukiji Fish Market. There were SO many different fresh sea creatures for sale (some still alive). All the workers were busy milling around, and it was fun to look around at all the different things.Read More
To give you a little background, my husband and I already were in Taiwan for a week before we went to Japan (we were visiting my sister for her wedding). This morning when we left for our flight, we arrived to the airport to find our flight was 5 hours delayed. As we were flying into Narita...Read More
Have you ever wanted to go on a tour to Japan? Or have you already been on a tour, but would love to re-live the memories? Join us on the Late Cherry Blossom Tour though our very own Office Manager, Rachel Moore! Rachel and her husband will be traveling on our Best of Japan Fully...Read More
