09:00 wake up, I really wanted to wake up earlier today but how to go around Hakone kept me awake up really late yesterday. 11:30 start at chigasaki 12:40 arriving at my Hiratsuka Checkpoint – the Hiratsuka Hachimangu (founded in 380) . Although going along the Tokaido road also accidentally led me to a milestone […]
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09:00 wake up 10:30 packing planing for next days breakfast Today I walked through Hodogaya, Totsuka and Fujisawa but because the cities are quite developed I didn’t find any milestone. I oriented myself on the old Tokaido signs and roads which can be obtained by Google maps and actually goes quite smoothly through those mentioned
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09:00 wake up at the Train Hostel somehow feeling really tired 10:30 breakfast and organizing hostels for upcoming days finished starting to go to the point zero – nihonbashi 10:57 start at Nihonbashi 12:57 first Station shinagawa-juku It even says Toukaidou Shinagawajuku stone-something. I am really happy to find it. So the next stations would
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19:30 ararived at Sendai the bigest city in the Tohoku region. First stop – the AER building which offers a free city view at the 31.st floor. Althoough the observation platforms only faces to the (i believe it is ) the north and south side and was still worth coming by. From here i could
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I am very happy that my former flatmates can still bear with me sitting in the kitchen, doing my chores and cooking stuff up. Today marks the actually last day that we will see each other in this constellation since one of my flatmates will move to Kyoto. About me: I would say that i
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The Tokaido trail is a historic path connecting Kyoto and Tokyo along the coastline. It consist of 53 stations and was one of the viable routes for Samurais and merchants in the Edo period. However since it crosses a lot of rivers it was not considered to be very safe. Noble people would consider the
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06.Aug 8:30 lets start the day Blisters are going better now and the breakfast was very welcomed. I woke up just in time and thought the meager breakfast buffet of 2 toasts and a little bit of marmelade was everything which was left for the last guest. To my surprise i actually was served a
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I arrived at Tazawako station at 07:30 am and can feel that I am in the countryside already. There is nothing going on here besides the every now and then sound of a broom brushing at the streets. 08:05: Taking a bus to Tamagawa Onsen and will stop at Tazawakahon 08:30: There is a one-way
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Goal: Visit the 3 great festivals in the Tohoku region – Kanto (Akita), Nebuta (Aomori), Tanabata (Sendai) additionally checking out the two great lakes Tazawa and Towada. So my feet are actually still hurting from Mt fuji and Nikko but I got some blister plaster, let’s see how things will go. The goal is to
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08:15 Let’s start the day! I will be going with a flatmate today and we are going to purchase the nikko heritage pass to go to, around and from Nikko back for around 4000 yen. However we are only allowed to use local trains which makes things difficult. 09:33 to 12:44 trainride to Tobu-Nikko. Eating
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