The point of the holiday was to go to Nashville. My mum loves country music and had always wanted to go, so why not? How selfless I am. Well, there had to be something in it for me (apart from seeing my mum), so we also planned to go and see WEEZER. That’s why we had to leave Chicago so soon but I’m getting ahead of myself.
The second part of the 16th saw us in Nashville. We went by plane and it was all very smooth, landed in Nashville about 16:30ish. Got an Uber to the ...
I’ve lived in Tokyo for about 7 and a half years and I’d never been to Ochanomizu before. My husband had an appointment in the area and I went to meet him. As you can see from the pictures, if you like gingko, it’s the place to be.
We trotted to Yushima Seido, a Confucian temple focused on learning – there are lots of universities in the area.
Then we headed over to Kanda Shrine. It was very busy. Both are definitely worth a visit.
It was quite late by this point, so we headed off for curry at Ethiopia ...
It was a buffet breakfast at the hotel which had a section for making your own seafood rice-bowl. There was lots of choice but slim-pickings for the veggies.
Today saw us whizzing along on the train straight-across the middle of Japan, from west to east. It was still very snowy in places.
We arrived in Kurashiki which has the beautiful Bikan Historical Quarter. The overcast day only seemed to highlight that. It was crowded and this was off-season in early Feb, so be warned if you are going.
First stop was to Ohara Museum of Art. It was crowded but ...
Happy belated Mountain Day! To celebrate, we went to Okutama・奥多摩 , Tokyo Prefecture. It took a bit over 2 hours to get there from over the other side of Tokyo, so we were up at 5:45 on a Saturday morning. We managed to get seats on the trains, which was my number one concern of the day and the trains are cool, so not a bad place to be in the middle of Japanese summer. When we arrived, they were gearing up for the festival, with stalls lining the streets but they weren’t open whilst we were there.
This month ...