I have never dealt well with loss and death. When I was planning my wedding two years ago, I had a hard time dealing with the fact that my grandmother, who passed away in my teen years, would not be there. Even though she had been gone for […]
Due to the travel issues discussed in my two previous posts, we lost two nights and one day in Hiroshima. This meant that we had to combine our two day itinerary into one day. This, after climbing Mount Fuji, nearing the end of our vacation, and spending all […]
When we last left off, it was around 6pm at night, and we were on our way back from Mount Fuji and 2 hours from arriving in Tokyo. The last trains for Hiroshima would have left close to the time we arrived in Tokyo, and they weren’t covered […]
Nikko is a town at the entrance of Nikko national park and has Japan’s oldest bridge and most lavishly decorated shrine. It is also the town where I had the fanciest and tastiest meal of my life. We went to Nikko as a day trip from Tokyo and […]
Yokohama means horizontal beach in Japanese. It was named for how the fishing village / beach looked from out at sea. Today, it is Japan’s largest city and that horizonatl beach is one of its main ports. As it is about a 30 minute train ride from Tokyo, […]
As Seen By Jane 