Jared Trip to Japan 6 Returning to Yokohama, we spent a day doing some shopping and site-seeing around Tokyo. Super easy and cheap transportation around makes it easy to go and see things like the Negishi Forest park. Also... Photograph Apr 15, 2025
Jared Trip to Japan 5 Moving on Shizuoka takes us to more temples and cherry blossoms. We found a practically-private-pagoda and rang a bell. It was VERY loud when you are there!!... Photograph Video Apr 15, 2025
Jared Trip to Japan 4 Himeji Castle does not disappoint! The castle grounds themselves are great, if a little crowded (it is cherry blossom season!), but the real winner for me are the many, segmented gardens around it. Th... Photograph Apr 15, 2025
Jared Trip to Japan 3 Next up is Kagoshima with the island of Sakurajima. As far as I can tell, Sakurajima has no sakura though... We also went and saw gardens and shrines. On to Tobe, and we did some pottery turning and p... Photograph Apr 15, 2025
Jared Trip to Korea? So the cruise immediately took a turn to Korea. Practically all Japanese cruises do... seems that there is an economic reason (or loophole) for the ship to "leave Japan" (including annoying customs an... Photograph Apr 15, 2025
Jared Trip to Japan 2 After boarding our cruise ship in Yokohama we sailed to Hiroshima. Besides Itsukushima Jima, we went to a large Edion store/mall that had numerous used and new electronics, games and anime stuff. But ... Photograph Apr 15, 2025
Jared Trip to Japan To celebrate my birthday, we spent two weeks in Japan traveling around by bullet train and cruise ship. For our first couple of days, we traveled to Nagoya which we used as a hub to go and walk the Na... Photograph Video Apr 15, 2025