On our final day in Japan, we only had time for a morning quick trip to Nanzoin Temple - known for its bronze statue of a reclining Buddha, said to be the largest bronze statue in the world.
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Today will be a very relaxing pace, and also the first time of our entire trip thus far that we went out of our hotel room around 10am. We will be visiting Ohori Park, Fukuoka Castle Ruins, and Fukuoka Tower as the title.
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We will be spending a day trip exploring the quaint (and rather touristy) town Yufuin, where one could experience mountains, lakes and onsen in this small town.
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Today we will be spending a day exploring Hiroshima studying its historical part; which are the A-Bomb Dome, Peace Memorial Park, and Peace Memorial Museum.
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Today, it will be a day trip to Miyajima and will be moving our hotel base from Osaka to Hiroshima. This is another day of super early wake up to check out of the hotel, and take one of the earliest shinkansen from Shin-Osaka to Hiroshima Station.
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Another (lost count of how many) super early morning start, since today we need to travel from Osaka to Okayama for a jam-packed schedule. Fortunately, we travelled by the faster trains; Shinkansen (return trip from Osaka to Okayama) and Limited Express (return trip from Okayama to Kojima).
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Another super early morning start since we need to travel from Osaka to Kyoto (local train->shinkansen->local train). Today we will be visiting Fushimi Inari, Ginkakuji, and Arashiyama in Kyoto.
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Today’s main objective is to visit Kaiyukan as we didn’t manage to enter the other day due to a long snaking queue. Apart from that, we also travelled for photo ops at a couple of iconic Osaka’s spots.
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Today will be a long day trip to Kyoto, with us waking up super early around 4.45am to bath, prepare, and travel from Osaka to Kyoto.
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On our 10th day now, which is the halfway point of our trip! Today we will be going to Osaka Castle, HEP FIVE Ferris Wheel, and Kuchu Teien Observatory.
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For Day 9 we explored around Shinsekai, Tempozan Ferris Wheel, Glion Museum, and Cosmo Tower Observatory. Most are in the same area, so it will be more efficient in terms of time spent on transport and point to point walking.
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Day 8 is more of a mini post, documenting our short last morning in Kanazawa before taking the Limited Express to Osaka which we had our best Ramen during this trip that spans across numerous cities in Japan.
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Today we will be spending a full day in Kanazawa visiting Omicho Market, Kenrokuen Garden, and Kanazawa Castle.
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Today we will be doing a day trip to both Hida-Takayama and Hida-Furukawa, and we quickly realised (and regretted) that 1 day is not enough time to do proper sightseeing for both.
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Today we will be doing a day trip to Shirakawago village in Gifu, and travelling there via a return coach trip from Kanazawa bus terminal.
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Today we will be spending our morning at Zenkoji Temple, and then we will make our way to Kanazawa via Shinkansen. After that, a short late afternoon walk around at Higashi Chaya District.
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Today will be spending most of our day in Matsumoto visiting the Matsumoto Castle aka Crow Castle (due to castle’s black exterior colour), Nawate Street, Nakamachi District, and Matsumoto City Museum of Art. We also did some light night walk around at Nagano Gondo District.
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Today will be a full-day excursion to Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, as per our pre-trip planning we already knew that we can’t cover all the areas in a 1-day trip, sadly missing out on Midagahara and Bijodaira area.
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Our (wife and I) first ever trip to Japan (after saying for so long)! It is a red-eye flight from Singapore to Haneda International Airport via Japan Airlines JL38 on Business Class (I will be doing a review on that soon!).
Upon clearing immigration, collecting our luggage, exchanging our JR Passes at a booth a few steps away after stepping out of immigration, plus a couple of train transfers before taking the Shinkansen from Tokyo Station to Nagano Station (phew, that’s quite a handful).