Japan Adventure

Since the weather was not supposed to be good on Saturday, we decided to sleep in. Then, in rainy weather, we made our way to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Here, the...

On Thursday, we took the ferry to Miyajima in bright sunshine. The island is considered one of the 3 most beautiful landscapes in Japan. The first highlight when entering the...

After arriving in Hiroshima on Wednesday evening, we just looked around a bit. On Thursday, we first took the opportunity of a hop-on-hop-off bus to get an overview of...

On Tuesday morning, we went to the Temple of Thousand Gates and wandered through them. In the afternoon, we visited another park with...

On Sunday afternoon we continued to Kyoto. After we had moved into our apartment, we visited Nijo Castle. Unfortunately, we only had one hour because the grounds closed at 5 pm....

After a cozy breakfast and redeeming our JR Pass (a kind of season ticket for certain train routes for a specific period), we took the Shinkansen to the coastal town of Atami. ...

On Thursday, the excursion took us to the Tokyo-wan-aqua line. A combination of a bridge and a tunnel through the Tokyo Bay. We had the afternoon free, so...

Some of us started the day earlier to have breakfast at the fish market, while I preferred to have breakfast at the hotel with the larger group. Afterwards, we met again near...

This morning we visited a Japanese garden at nearly 30°C and quite high humidity. We found it very beautiful to see how something like this is built and enjoyed the time (even...

We started our Sunday in the Ginza shopping district. This district was built in the style of European cities and is often compared to the Champs Elysées in Paris. At 12...

On Saturday, we had tickets for the Gibli Museum. This is about the creation of anime. How they are drawn and how drawings become a film. Unfortunately, photography was not...

On Friday we took a ride to Yokohama. This used to be one of Japan's most important ports and also where the embassies of other countries were located. We passed by an amusement...

After another not really restful night (the jetlag continues), on Wednesday we took the subway to Ueno, a district of Tokyo. Here one of the last battles within Japan took...

After a very short night (we didn't go to bed until about 3 o'clock and then couldn't really sleep), we had a hard time getting out of bed. Our bodies had suffered quite a bit...

Yesterday at 20:00 Japan time, which is 13:00 German time, we finally arrived in Tokyo after 3 flights, 25 hours of flying and layovers at the airports in Düsseldorf, Paris, and...

It's almost time. On September 10th at 8 PM Japan time, which is 1 PM German time, we will land in Tokyo. Following that, we will have a 10-day excursion in Tokyo. We will visit...

Hallo ihr Lieben, Zur Zeit bin ich noch in Deutschland, aber in ziemlich genau 3 Wochen sitze ich im Flugzeug nach Japan 🗾. Am Montag, den 10.9.2018 kommen wir in Tokio an....