Travelogues Japan

Every month, a small village festival with a flea market takes place at the harbor in Ogi. The festival is a reminder of the shipping route that went through Japan and also...

Our group starts the day with a visit to the Toki Rehabilitation Center. Since 2008, Toki, also known as Nippon-Ibis, have been bred and released into the wild here. Toki are...

The next morning, we gather at the entrance gate at 08:00 to drive to the rice terraces. For me, it was not a problem to get up so early because I still couldn't really sleep...

About Bentos and Americans

We are really lucky. Spontaneously, we are allowed to stay with the Kodama family. We had visited the family a few days before and quickly connected with Anni and Nei. Salia and...

We spend our last days in Nakadaki Art Village between roaring waves and intoxicating cherry blossoms.At Suzumejima, an impressive rock formation, we jump over foaming waves. It...

Arrived in Osaka in the evening and found the hostel (16! women's beds in one room), then went to the sauna/onsen. On the way, I came across the first cherry blossoms, feeling...

When exploring the area, we find a very good sushi master and after a few understanding problems (an American translator was specially summoned and was so kind to help us...

11/30/2019 - blinked once and 3 months flew by 🙈 Here I am now with my JR Railpass and my backpack on the Shinkansen to Hiroshima, and I somehow can't believe that my 3 months...

Torii at the entrance to the park grounds

The trip to Nara took less than an hour and cost only CHF 4.00 per way. Even better, the trip started right at our accommodation in Juso. From 710 to 784, Nara was the capital...

This island is so far away from stress and adversity in this world, despite the tankers passing by relatively close all day, you live here in a paradise: BENESSE ART SITE...

Japan Summer 06/28/2018

Before heading to Osaka today - very early again (05:00) - we visited the Kiyomizu-dera temple complex in Kyoto. The history of this UNESCO World Heritage site dates back to the...

8:15 am - the beginning of the end

Anyone who thought Kanazawa already had a variety of wandering Geishas has not yet been to Kyoto, the center of Japanese Geisha culture. Here, there were practically an...

We went back to central Japan, to Kanazawa. Once a rich and artistically influenced castle town, today it is both traditional and modern. Some cultural backgrounds drove us...

September 20 On Sunday, we started the day again with a Japanese breakfast at the hotel. Each of us devoured 15 different bowls, mainly containing fish and seafood.

September 17 During the night at the hotel, we experienced a tiny earthquake that lasted only a few seconds, but it was already a

Die Geschichte von Amanohashidate, einer rund 3,6 Kilometer langen, mit Kiefern bewachsenen Sandbank im Norden der Präfektur Kyoto, ist eine faszinierende Mischung aus uralter...

Today we went to Ueno Park, where there are many things to see, as you can see. Especially the many aquatic plants right in the city. And all around are small food stalls and...

We arrive in Nagasaki, located in the southwest of Kyushu, Japan, in the morning with bright sunshine. A city rebuilt after its complete destruction by an atomic bomb on August 6,...

Arrival in the morning in Kobe with beautiful weather and warm temperatures above 10 degrees. Kobe is an extremely important port for Southeast Asia and has a population of 1.5...

The flight was overbooked, and for a moment, I wasn’t sure if I’d even make it, as my seat hadn’t been assigned just minutes before boarding. But once I was seated, everything...

11.4.2024 Kagoshima Kagoshima didn't make a particularly inviting impression on me. The excursions on offer didn't convince me either. I had a different plan. I really wanted to...

10.4.2024 Nagasaki In the morning, I went to the cinema to watch the documentary "Mythical Roads - Flowering Cherry Trees: Japan" to get in the mood for my stay in Japan. We...

I then continued further south, to Osaka. I had heard very different opinions about Osaka, both positive and negative, and was therefore quite curious to see what it was really...

After Tokyo I went to Yokohama, a somewhat quieter and small city but only 30km from Tokyo. Later in the morning I took the train to Yokohama. When I got there, I checked into...

10/24/2023-10/30/2023 And then there was Hiroshima. A completely different city than the ones we have visited so far. Somehow rural and yet occasionally overrun by tourism. A...

If you arrive at the port in Ogi by ferry, as a non-Japanese tourist, you can have a hard time finding your way around. This is because there is hardly any information available...