Konichiwa, When we arrived in Naha, Okinawa - the Japanese Hawaii - we had mainly sleeping and relaxing on our "To Do" List. However, when we got to our hostel, an odd place in the center of Naha, we were welcomed with news of a Typhoon coming in the next day. This dampened our enthusiasm right there. In the end it turned out that the Typhoon hit the island that same night and the weather improved steadily every day. Now we can say that we are disappointed as ...

Konichiwa! What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear Hiroshima? If your answer is "Atomic Bomb" then you're right but Hiroshima has a lot more to offer. We only spent 2 nights in Hiroshima but we took the time and went south of the city from where we caught a ferry to go to Miyajima Island with the famous O-torii Gate. The special thing about the gate is not its measurements (16 meters high and 24 meters wide) but its location. The gate is ...

Konichiwa, Last week we made our way from the very comfortable climate of Hokkaido to the extremely uncomfortable weather of Kansai area. With temperatures of 42 degrees Celsius and a very high level of humidity at 1:00pm we were literally drowning in our own sweat. At 11:00pm still as high as 32 degrees Celsius. Regardless of the sweat running down our faces, backs and necks and the fact that drinking already more than 3 liters still didn't make us go to the wa...

Konichiwa, Many things happened since we got back from our Mt. Fuji adventure. We had 5 nights (of which we spent 4 in our "favourite" Capsule Hotel) left in Tokyo and tried to see another firework (failed - ended up soaking wet again! Seems like we bring bad luck to Japanese fireworks and better stay away from them in the future), visited the Tsukiji Fish Market and met up with some friends. From the beginning we had on our "to do" list for Tokyo to make a day...

Konichiwa! Whenever we talked about Japan we talked about hiking Mt. Fuji. Of course we would never just go for the "boring" dayhike, we were talking about the night hike to reach the summit just in time for the sunrise. In the past week we talked with a few different people in our hostels who did the same hike just recently. To be quite honest, some of the stories about extremely cold weather, wind, rain, a s***ty sunrise due to clouds and altitude sickness, ma...