Shirahama is just once a year
After so many days with millions of new impressions we decided to ease up and have some relaxing days at the sea. Shirahama seemed the best place for it, especially because also many locals go to Shirahama for holidays. We left Osaka in the morning and after three hours and learning how to use a bus...
Endless nights in Osaka
A bit late but with and good excuse theres a new update about our trip. We spend more time at night than during the day. Osaka is a very vibrant city and especially if it comes to drinks, parties and good people it has so much to offer. As it was saturday we wanted to see the nightlife here and ende...
to Nightlife
After a whole day experiencing Nara we never thought about a little night out in Osaka. But it happened. And it was really nice. After a good Ramen we found a small bar named "Pink Elephant" with a really open-minded barkeeper, who showed us some real Japanese drinks and could answer us a lot questi...
From Wildlife
We had to do the most of our day in Nara because we would leave the same afternoon to Osaka. Sow e rented some bikes and made a real tour through the town visiting various temples and being part of a real ceremony in the temple. It was very interesting to see how another culture lives religion. Of c...
Calm after storm
After 5 days of jungle in Tokyo we headed to the little town Nara. We took the super express train Shinkansen, which is known for his velocity. In just three hours we did the route of 500km and arrived in Nara. We stayed at a traditional Japanese House with over 100 years of age in the old town of N...
Cats, Owls and Hedgehogs
We started our day with some organisation and then headed to the Meiji Shrine, a big garden with an old temple. As we were close to Harajuku station, we could pass through the famous Tekashita Street. There we tried out the special Mozarella Fried Sticks, おいしい ! This area was full of cat, owl or...
Artsy Fartsy
We started our day visiting the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum in beautiful Ueno Park. Especially the last exhibition about Japanese artists and their paintings was very impressive. Unfortunately (or not) we couldn't do any photos there... Later on we picked up our stuff at the hostels and started our wa...
Meow Meow mit Maiddreamin
Mit unserer ersten Nacht in Ueno machten wir uns als erstes auf den Weg nach Akihabara, Medien-Mekka und Animi-Magnet gleichzeitig. Nach einer kompletten ersten Reizüberflutung durch tausend Shops mit unzähligen Stockwerken an Animicharakteren, Spielautomaten und Krims Krams Elektronik entschieden w...
20k first day
After a good sleep we were ready to have our first official day in Tokyo. As the hot and humid weather greeted us outside, we decided our first destination would be the light museum. Walking towards the station of Yurakucho we discovered a park and decided to have breakfast there, as we knew that in...
Sake despite jetlag
Meanwhile in our biological rhythm it was 1am we arrived Tokyo at 9am in the morning. We had to survive a whole day after a 11h flight without sleeping, which was a challenge we surprisingly managed quite well. We bridged the time until check-in with a walk through Shimbashi, seeing the Tokyo Tower...