Traveling all afternoon from Mt. Fuji, I arrived in Kyoto in the evening and had just enough time to walk to Nuji castle and see the sakura light display. In the morning I walked all over town, starting with the Nishiki market. There I bought my first set of chopsticks and had them engraved with... Continue Reading →
Hakone (Mt. Fuji)
*disclosure...I'm finally writing this post months after I've left Japan. But I need to catch up at some point so here we go. From Tokyo I took the Romancecar (an old train that winds through the mountains) to Hakone, the city near to Mt. Fuji. I stayed at a hostel that had an onsen (japanese... Continue Reading →