What do you know – a year after my previous trip, I find myself heading over to Japan again…
The plan is to be in Japan for 22 days – my sister will join me for 12 days in the middle of the trip. I’ll be ‘wandering’ through the following cities during this time:
Tokyo (Shinjuku, Harajuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuro, Tsukiji, Odaiba, Asakusa, Ueno, Okachimachi)
Yokohama
Chiba (Tokyo Disneyland, Mount Nokogiri [Nokogiriyama])
Sendai, Matsushima
Hiroshima, Miyajima
Hakata, Tenjin, Fukuoka, Kita Kyushu
Nagoya
Kyoto (Arashiyama, Sanjo)
Osaka (Namba, Umeda, Shin-sekai, Osaka Bay, etc.)
I’m currently in transit, waiting for my connecting flight at the sunny Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia (Coolangatta Airport). The weather is surprisingly deceptive – it looks really warm outside but the wind chill is insane. But you don’t care about the Aussie weather right? Will leave the weather talk for when I get to Japan.
My Japanese friend Nagisa kindly agreed to activate my b-mobile unlimited data SIM card, so that when I arrive I can use it immediately. Definitely helps if I need to retrieve anything from Google Drive.
Which reminds me; I had the presence of mind to write down my first hotel address, on paper – there have been times in the past where I have not been able to produce this information easily and it caused major troubles.
Boarding in one hour. I am hellbent on not sleeping so that I can be as exhausted as possible for the long flight. 9 hours of Jetstar joy…
Till next time,
Rick