We are back in Wakayama! When we decided to visit Koyasan in the Wakayama area (south of Osaka) we knew we wanted to explore more of this less-known area. Wakayama is ...
Kumano Kodo: Hiking the Dainichi-goe trail from Hongu Taisha to Yunomine Onsen
Fighting your fears
Today we stop the Japan series to share a personal and summery pictures post. I have several times shared my fear for planes in the blog, it's something that I can't control no matter how many times I tell myself that it's irrational and that ...
Koyasan, following the steps of Kōbō-Daishi
Re-tracing chronologically our trip around Japan, we are visiting now Koyasan, the sacred mountain!...
Chosen by the wand at the Harry Potter land in USJ Osaka (& a peek of the rest of the park)
I read for the first time the Harry Potter books only a few years ago, but I fell so much for them that just in that moment we made a promise that we were going to visit the Harry Potter land in Osaka one day to witness all the magic world by myself. The day came ...
Osaka in the rain, visiting a new bold world: Shinsekai
There's no better place than Osaka when you have hungry bellies, that's a known fact, and this time we were looking for the original Daruma kushikatsu shop, which brought us to Shinsekai! Want to see what a kushikatsu is?...
1 day at traditional Miyajima island (and how we avoided the crowds!)
Miyajima is in all Japan travel wish-lists for a reason. In fact, people who know that this was our third time visiting the country was very surprised to learn that we hadn't been able to visit before. Why took us this long?...
Boats & sakura at Chidorigafuchi park, the most romantic cherry blossom location in Tokyo
The cherry trees may be green now in Tokyo (hence no flowers) but I'm not still ready to let the season go away, so here we are, with probably one of the most romantic locations in Tokyo during the hanami, the Chidorigafuchi park....
誕生日おめでとう Happy birthday, Daniel-kun!
Today this dapper coffee addict is celebrating his birthday, tuut!...
