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✈ location: Japan

Sun 31 May 2015 / No comments

Golden Pavilion in Kyoto

Yes, here we are again! Your favorite monkey and beaver friend travelling around the globe and blogging anyway.

This time, our destination is none other than the land of the rising sun: Japan! Telling people Tinus and i were going to Japan usually resulted in one of these two questions:

Why Japan?
This is for work, right?

For some reason, the first question usually came from older people, while the second one originated from people about our age. I would say: why not? Japan is a very interesting country, very unlike South East Asia (the destination you can read about in our previous blogposts), one of the very few countries that wasn’t colonized, and that has a history that goes back thousands of years.

Nagasaki

Anyway, i hope we’ll be able to blog about all the destinations we visit, but if we don’t, at least you got our schedule here with a (very) rough indication of some of the sights we have or will see. Right now we’re in Nagasaki, so we’ve already done half of our trip.

Day 1 (19 may): Amsterdam – Tokyo
Day 2: Tokyo – Kyoto
Day 3, 4, 5: Kyoto, Nara, GEAR theatre show, Arashiyama (Bamboo Forest)
Day 6: Kyoto – Koyosan
Day 7: Koyosan (sleeping in a Buddhist temple!)
Day 8: Koysan – Osaka
Day 9: Osaka, Himeji, Kobe
Day 10: Osaka – Okayama, Kurashiki
Day 11: Okayama – Nagasaki, Dejima (the place where the Dutch were allowed to trade with the Japanese for over 200 years)
Day 12: Nagasaki, writing this blogpost
Day 13: Nagasaki, Huis ten Bosch, this weird theme park that recreates some of the most memorable Dutch monuments in real scale, but containing roller coasters and the like
Day 14: Nagasaki – Beppu: Onsen haven
Day 15: Nagasaki – Hiroshima
Day 16, 17: Hiroshima, Miyajima (home of the floating shrine)
Day 18: Hiroshima – Tokyo
Day 19, 20, 21, 22, 23: Ghibli Museum!
Day 24: Back to Amsterdam