A beautiful ryokan awaited us, with spacious rooms, perfect service, excellent food and amazing views. With a traditional Japanese bathroom where you wash and shower, then get into a wooden bath Time for food and the obligatory Yakata With superb … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
This afternoon we set off for our last but one destination (aww is it really so close to going home?) Miyajima Island is where the floating Tori gate seems to rise effortlessly out of the water and is a destination … Continue reading
Today we got up and did a brief tour around Hiroshima with our wonderful volunteer guide Masato-San. It is always interesting to visit Hiroshima and come away with something new about the area and we certainly did after spending a … Continue reading
Breakfast this morning consisted of leftovers from tea last night, so we will show you how enjoyable that was again. Fish, raw egg, rice and things. Give me coco pops posted by the biker daddy. … Continue reading
We stayed in a Ryokan here. [geo_mashup_save_location lat=”34.3953″ lng=”132.4538″] We arrived to the Ryoken relaxed (well a nice chilled asahi does help). The Ryoken staff were racing around after us like nutters, dinner at 7pm, time to all use the … Continue reading
Bye bye Kyoto and onward to Hiroshima on the Hikari bullet trains. These are slightly slower than the Nozomi but we can use these with the JR Pass we bought in the UK. We took a brief 15 min train … Continue reading
The Dome posted by the biker daddy. … Continue reading
A wonderful few days in Kyoto, we’ve seen so much and now it’s time to get the Shinkansen to Osaka and then Hiroshina for our next stay at a ryokan (late arrival today due to availability of seats) A goodbye … Continue reading
Today we did a non stop tour of Kyoto. Starting with Kyamizu dera temple, wandering down through Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka which are narrow cobbled streets full of shops and restaurants. It was a bit cooler today so easier to amble. … Continue reading
An early(ish) rise this am saw us catch a number of buses to Kiyomizo temple, which is awesome With the fountain of eternal youth (which Mrs Fogg and I sampled 8 years ago, can you get a refund?) Lots of … Continue reading