Today we left Japan to fly to Perth (via China), so we are on are way to stage 3 of our trip. Well after 40 mins at the check in desk, not sure why the lady took so long to check us in. We left feeling slightly concerned as she seemed so interested in our itinerary for flights next month! Anyway today's blog will be to sum up our experience of Japan. Pros The people were friendly and so willing to help Akihabara and its amazing lights, shops and arcades you c...

It feels like we were only just getting settled in another hotel when we were off again to another location via bullet train. Osaka was always designated as a rest stop before the fast paced trip to Australia. Therefore this blog will cover the 2 days in Osaka as we did little and rested a lot. It's worth mentioning that Japan is notorious for small living areas such as cube hotels. However after arriving at our hotel even we were surprised. A twin room where the...

Our final full day in Kyoto, so we headed out for breakfast at the same cafe we kept going too, cheese on toast for breakfast costing £1.20 compared to a £10 breakfast at the hotel. We had a look around some souvenir shops before taking a walk round the outskirts of the station. We ended up in a temple called Nishi Hoingwanji, which was previously used for teaching Buddhism. It was a huge woodern temple and the space inside was vast, it also had the nightingal...

The Ibis Laura and I had chosen to stay in was close to the Kyoto station. So close in fact we could watch the bullet trains arrive every few minutes. Sadly however it appears the Kyoto transport network is fairly primitive compared to Tokyo, and they rely on buses for transport to the city. Anyone who knows me knows I HATE buses with a passion, it appears I was wrong. Kyoto buses are punctual and cheap and this leads to a happy Ant. After a brief stop at the inf...

It was decided today would be a lazy day, with both of us suffering from a cold. We had our first proper line in, before heading in to town for a wander. We discovered that Kyoto station which we weere staying next too was huge, the largest I have ever seen. It had 3 malls in the station including several food courts, where we stumbled across a Subway for brunch! While eating our lunch we were looking at a map to figure out which exit to take for Kyoto tower and...