Japan

Top 10 from a year on the road

Back to Europe after one whole year of travels... head full of memories that put the widest smile on our faces! When we get asked what was the most memorable, i... Read More...

Soaking in Japan

It has been a little while since we left Japan, but we decided to write a quick article to describe in more detail the amazing Japanese Hot Source (Onsen) tradi... Read More...

A few days in Okinawa

A quick one on our week in Okinawa. Okinawa is to Japan what Hawaii is to the USA - a far away island, still part of the country but almost unreal - a tropic... Read More...

On the road

With our amazing big Toyota van, over the past 2 weeks we have been slowly making our way towards warmer climates here in Japan. It worked - we went from 0 degr... Read More...

Rice (etc) farming

After Tokyo, we headed North to the Yamagata prefecture, which is quite rural and not usually on the tourist trail. We went to help on a rice farm and stayed fo... Read More...

Tokyo instants

In all we spent 2 weeks in Tokyo and around, working and then exploring the city at a leisurely pace. This city is so nice, that we couldn't think of anything u... Read More...

Living with a geisha

To be able to enjoy Japan for 2-3 months, we were planning to try volunteering. For a start, we found a 2-week stay just before arriving to Tokyo and were very ... Read More...