“You’ve seen the deer village, what about the fox village?” asked my Canadian Tokyo hostel buddy. I hadn’t heard of the ‘fox village’. I had, however, heard of Fushimi Inari, boasting the #1 slot on both Tripadvisor Kyoto as well as Tripadvisor Japan. I was slightly disappointed just now to find it only on place #25 […]
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10 Kyoto Must-Try Culinary Delights
Though I spent most of my Asia trip eating epic food, I feel my culinary experiences in Kyoto deserve their own entry. From horse meat sushi to red bean mush-filled raw dough-esque pastries, here we go, in no particular order… The Best of Kyoto Cuisine 1. Conveyor belt sushi Sushi does not get much more traditional than […]
Nara’s deerlightful inhabitants
Oh deer! It’s time for my 100th post. Let’s start by thanking all my deerest readers, you make me deerlirious of joy, thank you for existing. <3 I have a story for you. Once upon a time, there was an epic city in a far, far away land. It so happened that one day, the […]
Kyoto’s golden temples and crimson leaves
Before I moved to Asia, I would stalk people’s pictures and blogs and jealously look at them in, on and around various exotic, fascinating, strange temples of curious, foreign religions. I’d be in awe – the incredible colours, the picturesque tilt of the roofs, the marvellous costumes, and wonder about the fascinating stories behind these alien […]
The Bullet Train to Kyoto
aka Travelling in Hope. The Japanese Bullet Train is a classic. Like the Eiffel Tower in France, kiwis in New Zealand, Langkawi Sky Bridge in Malaysia, or toasted rye bread in Finland, it’s something you really shouldn’t miss if you’ve made the effort to go visit the country. Especially for me, I guess I have […]
The last 24 hours in Tokyo
…which include AMAZING JAPANESE FOOD, autumnal colours and tilted roofed houses around the Imperial Palace Gardens, the Tokyo Metropolitan Building and its high views, the electric city Akihabara, with a final morning ending with Shibuya crossing (part 3) and what else than SUSHI. ____________ Did you know Japanese sugar comes in long tubes? (Did you […]
Quirky Harajuku Street
Osaka, Tokyo You Harajuku girls Damn, you’ve got some wicked style… Sings Gwen Stefani in probably her best song, What you waiting for? many, many years ago. One of the things I was most looking forward to in Tokyo was the famous Harajuku shopping street, spotting funkily dressed, stylish, fashionable Japanese people and, well, maybe be able […]
Tokyo – the modern, the historic and the cute
I woke up in Tokyo on my first day in Japan, feeling slightly anxious and out of my comfort zone. Tokyo. It’s pretty big. (The most populous metropolitan area in the world, with a population of 38,6 million in the metropolitan area. That’s nearly eight Finlands.) I’d arrived at the hostel at around 1am, following a […]
The ABCs of Japan according to Google
Apologies for the one-and-a-half-month delay – I decided to get my own website and editing every single pic in my imported blog took a whole lot longer than I expected… So, to celebrate my quarter of a century, here is my new website! But now let’s forget time and let’s get back to last year… […]