Category: Japan 2014

http://www.bucketlisttraveller.com/aomori/ Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:23:57 +0000 Jayne http://www.bucketlisttraveller.com/?p=248 Saturday 4/10/14   Aomori has a history of over 30,000 years settlement, but almost the entire city was burned to the ground at the end of WW2, so there are few old buildings in the area. We started out early for…

 1 Otaru http://www.bucketlisttraveller.com/otaru/ Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:40:16 +0000 Jayne http://www.bucketlisttraveller.com/?p=193 Thursday 2/10/14 Today we arrived at  the “Little City of the Hills”. Its history is as a fishing port but it is popular now as a place to ski in winter.   We started our day with a trip…

Yesterday was amazing – just wow! It was a jam packed day of the most incredible sights. We headed off in the bus at 7am for drive to Kyoto. The weather here is much hotter than I expected – 28 C yesterday. Our wonderful tour guide, Matsako, gave us a…

Yesterday we had a full day out and about in Kanazawa. We boarded our bus about 7.30 for about an hours drive to Tojinbo. The countryside is different here as they don’t waste any space. Because there is no zoning its an interesting mix of houses, rice fields, gardens, shops…

 Well we are having a great time but the internet connection here is very sporadic and very expensive so I won’t be able to post each day as I had hoped. It often drops out three or four times before I can even get a page open let alone post…