Travel in Japan

Sometimes, you enter a rather nondescript looking station like the one in the photo to board a train. Instead of going down just a flight of stairs, you saw a seemingly endless downward tunnel. You keep on going down by the stairs or the escalators and after a while, you start to wonder how deep are you exactly underground.

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How Deep Are We Underground?

Zaini doesn’t care about our balancing our daily expenses back home (that’s my job), just that when we are on vacation, he did all the daily reconciliation without fail.

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Keeping Track Of Expenses While On Vacation

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I seriously think that my family is not fated to explore much of Kanazawa. The two times we visited Kanazawa , it rained almost the whole day! OK, we managed to visit Kenrokuen and made a trip to Terai to visit Ultraman Stadium ; but other than that, we were indoors and spent much of the time exploring the

Tame deers wander freely on Miyajima, much to the delight of our son who was absolutely excited being up close and personal with the deers. He equated those deers with Santa Clause (as in reindeers), and we don’t even celebrate Christmas! Tourists are not supposed to either feed or touch the tame deers that roam around the island, but I guess we were a bunch of clueless, law-breaking tourists, as can be witnessed from the photo below. The deers didn’t really care to be friendly with us, because we had no food with us.

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Deers Of Miyajima

One of those things you think about Japan – sushi and the condiment: wasabi. Some of us only ever see the green paste form and not the root form

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Fresh Wasabi!

All those posts about the food we enjoyed while vacationing in Japan last year, we have yet posted anything on sushi, haven’t we?

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Sushi For Lunch

After our trip to an orchard and having a great time looking at grapes, pears, apples and kiwis still attached to their trees/vines or whatever; we decided on the last minute to take the Resort Shirakami train on the Gono Line. By last minute, I mean -

It’s Raimie’s birthday today.

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Happy Birthday Dear Son

I posted about our stay at Uematsuya and enjoying the onsens earlier.

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Breakfast Of The Day – Seating With Legs Folded At Uematsuya