Have you ever visited a location—one that EVERYONE is talking about—and discovered it wasn’t ‘all that’? Yeah, me too (for me it was The Jewel, in Singapore. I mean, it …
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Japan was one of the last countries to reopen after the Covid pandemic, in October, 2022. You may recall that people were in the midst of a travel frenzy of …
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Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles and has some of the most well-known names …
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#TBT: Japan April 2005: Cherry Blossoms on Philosopher’s Path in Kyoto, Travel to Nagoya
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegWe have about 45 minutes on this Shinkansen (Bullet Train) to Nagoya, so I can start to write what we’ve done today. Joe and Steve (Steve is a friends of …
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#TBT: Japan Trip April 2005: Johnnie Hillwalker’s Johnnie Kyoto Walking Tour
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegAnother day filled with not so much stress. Hehehe…now we’re even starting to talk like Japanese people. We took the 8am shuttle bus to Kyoto Station and had breakfast at …
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#TBT: Japan, April 2005 – Kyoto & Nara (Shugakuin Imperial Villa, Nara Dreamland, Nara Station)
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegThe first part of our day was stressful because of timing factors, the second part of our day was a Disney knockoff that was hysterically funny and the third part …
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#TBT: Japan April 2005: Kyoto: Kyoto Station, Imperial Palace, Nijo Castle, Seeing Beauty & The Beast
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegSo after waking up at 4:20am (yes, 4:20 in the morning. Jetlag sucks!) and catching up on our internet/computer stuff, Joe, Steve (MODERN-DAY NOTE: Steve is a friend of ours) …
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#TBT: Japan, April 2005 – Osaka to Kyoto: Shuttle Bus Ride, Holiday Inn Kyoto, Jet Lag
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegWe arrived yesterday afternoon and after a 2-hour shuttle ride from the airport in Osaka to our hotel in Kyoto, we fell into our beds at 9pm Thursday (Japan time), …