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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The 31.07 also marks the last day in my sharehouse. Naturally we had a farewell party which lasted until 3 am, which was quiet tiring considering that i had to wake up at 8 to clean up the rest of my room to get the bus from Shinjuku to Mt. Fuji at 10:35. Arrived at
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Although right in the raining season we decided to take a chance on Nokogiriyama since the weather won’t stabilize anytime soon anyway. 09:30 starting from Ueno we needed around 2h and 2000 yen to get to Hota station. The train ride was very convenient without many transfers. 12:00 arrived at Hota and the first concern
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Today is a special and exceptional day. Not because it’s my birthday but because i didn’t go to university although i was supposed to. It’s because yesterday i just realized that i had to hand in an assignment. Initially i thought the deadline would be today, but in the end i worked on it till
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Actually i didn’t want to write about this trip but Mt. Takao needs to have a honorable mention. It is located east from Tokyo and is probably the nearest mountain around. Starting from Shinjuku Station it takes only around 1 hour and 3 € to Takaosanguchi Station where we started our trip. There are several
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This was organized by Oakhouse, the company which offers the sharehouses, for a small fee. The event took place in Takumachi – a small town in the Chiba prefecture. It took me around 1 h from Ueno station to Keisei Narito station from where we would meet the staff. After additional 30 min by car
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Only after this trip i realized, that the Wisteria plant is besides the cherry tree, a big thing in Japan. In don’t want to pretend i know much about this plant so i just refer to this short article. It took us around 1.5h from Ueno station to Ashikaga Flower Park station. Since we were
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This was my first ever trip in Japan and i am very lucky to be able to do it within the first two weeks after arriving here. 1.st day: To get to the Kawaguchiko town is quite straightforward there is a seamlessly direct line from Shinjuku station to the Kawaguchiko station.After unpacking our luggage at
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Today I was on my way to the Asakusa district which is around 1 hour walk on foot from where i live. The first spot to see was the Senso-ji Temple the oldest temple in Tokyo [efn_note]see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sens%C5%8D-ji, accessed on 04.05.2018 [/efn_note]. Because of several renovations and rebuilds this temple, although the oldest, looks really
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