Day two of my Okinawa trip started extremely early. I woke up just before 6am, got downstairs right when breakfast started at 6:30am, ate as much as I could within 10 minutes, then beelined for the bus stop right outside the Prefectural Office. We had to be on time to catch the Yanbaru Express towards Ocean Expo Park which left right at 6:50am. One of the downsides of not renting a car in Okinawa is having to plan everything around…
Getting started on my Okinawa posts while the memories are still [somewhat] fresh in my mind. Okinawa was one of the places I’ve wanted to visit in Japan for a long time, but I’ve never been able to fit it in my trips since it’s so far out of the way. However, this time I specially made the effort to spend a few days on the island. The first day of my trip was mostly spent traveling to Naha. Since…
For the last day of our trip, my mom, sis and I went to Kyoto. Kyoto is pretty close to Nagoya, so I’ve been lucky that I’ve been a few times already. Since it was my mom’s first time, we chose some popular tourist spots to visit. After arriving in Gion early in the morning, we first dropped off our bags at our ryokan, then headed out to our first spot that day – Tofukuji. It was actually my first…
The day after we went to Kobe, we spent the day in Osaka for the K8 concert. We walked around and shopped in the morning, then grabbed an early lunch. Later on we parted ways with my mom, who was going to head back to the hotel by herself, while my sister and I left for Kyocera Dome together. We weren’t quite sure how much time we needed to buy con goods, but we were pretty surprised to see there…
I’ve really been putting off my journal entries for too long. I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten the majority of the things I wanted to write about, but I’m going to attempt at pulling out the highlights of my side trips in Japan. Starting off with – Kobe. I went to Kobe back in January when my mom and sis were visiting. If I was posting in chronological order, this entry should go right after my USJ post, as I visited…