Posts about planning my fourth trip to Japan in May 2016
On my most recent Japan trip, I hopped around a few cities over a week so I’m going to write little guides for each. First…
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I didn’t go to Japan planning to eat a lot of donuts, but there were so many cute ones that I couldn’t resist them, so…
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As a lifelong space nerd, I did some searching to see if there were any space museums I could visit in Japan. There are a…
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One ‘problem’ with visiting Japan is that you do get a bit kawaii-ed out at some points. For us, that often happened in Yamashiroya meaning…
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If you love Rilakkuma then make sure you add a visit to the Rilakkuma Stores to your itinerary. You’ll find branches around Tokyo and Japan, especially…
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We stumbled across Passport – now mostly rebranded as HAPiNS – on our first trip to Japan and it was so cute it’s been a firm favourite…
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Back in 2009 I saw this ITN news report about Usagito Cafe (also sometimes called Usagi no Wonderland), a bunny cafe in Nagoya and from then on eating…
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Last time we visited Japan, we barely had any internet access. We generally managed fine but that was not an option for me this trip.…
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