What better way to spend our last full day with the Tomodachi crew (Kenji and Hannah) than to visit the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Odaiba? Miraikan, meaning ‘future place’, is a 7-storey science museum equipped with a planetarium occupying the top two levels. If you’ve never been to a planetarium before, … Continue reading Flashing lights and starry nights: Tokyo Science Museum
Nara, the final destination on our short bullet train trip around the south of Japan. To be honest this was the place we were all least excited about and at one stage we were even talking about cutting our time here in half! But with some good luck and a chance meeting it turned out … Continue reading Unexpectedly awesome Nara
Our stay in Kyoto was short but sweet. Tobi had actually caught a cold from the cool weather on Miyajima Island the day before so we decided to take it easy. On the night we arrived, we checked into our first hostel stay of the trip – Piece Hostel Kyoto… and having stayed at a … Continue reading Kyoto: Two temples and a tea room
Our day trip to Miyajima Island was like a page out of a fairytale book about magical forests and hidden creatures living in harmony amongst mountaintop temples and friendly deer. Honestly, the island is pretty much made up of these three things: forests, temples and deer! To get there we caught a train from Hiroshima … Continue reading Exploring Miyajima Island
It’s now our third week in Japan and it sure feels like time is flying by. On Monday morning we set off for another mini trip, this time down south to Hiroshima, Kyoto and Nara for a good dose of mountain hiking, temples and museums. While the north of Japan is better known for its snowy Winters and … Continue reading The story of Hiroshima
Current location: On a plane. Current mood: Holiday mode, baby! Current appetite: Moderately full from our McDonald’s breakfast run at the airport. Today we officially said farewell to Sydney for the next 8.5 months. We couldn’t have asked for a better last day yesterday spent in the park basking in the sunshine with friends, tunes, … Continue reading Oh the places we’ll go…
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