Travel in Japan

Read my first post of this “On The Run” series at: On The Run – Yokohama to know why I’m all excited about doing morning runs in Japan. ^^ I didn’t really have running gear suitable for the colder season and buying new ones would be such a waste since I’m only using it a few times so to keep me warm, I just put on my Uniqlo heatech shirt and another shirt on top it and my usual capri pants

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On The Run – Yufuin

“I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spent almost all the daylight hours in the open-air”

One of Niseko’s finest restaurants, Kamimura shut for lunch on the 7th of October.

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

and taking the Resort Shirakami train – Buna. I posted about the trip earlier in the post : Day 4 In Japan – A 5 Hour Trip To Nowhere . Why did I call it a trip to nowhere

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A Scenic Ride On The Gono Line Part I

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The Japanese plum or ume is associated with the start of spring because plum blossoms are some of the first blossoms to open during the year.

Less than one month till our vacation to Japan and I really, really need to refresh and familiarise myself towards the Japanese language again. Admittedly I don’t really know much, and what I depend on is the survival phrases and for that JapanesePod101 came handy with their Survival Phrase segment. It’s been a year since I listened to any of their podcasts (because I was too pre-occupied with all things Koreans this year) and it is high time I start listening again.

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Study Time For Mommy!

I like browsing through our old photos. I got this idea of putting up several photos of my mug in my other blog, Lina’s Backyard but can you believe it – there isn’t much photo of myself in our whole collection of photos! I asked a friend of mine who is an avid photographer about how many photos of himself in his vacation album and he told me that out of the few hundreds photos of his vacation in Beijing last December, he was in the photos for about 15 photos! I didn’t fare much better -

It’s been a while since we last used/referred to an English Language travel guide book on Japan. Whatever guide books available on the shelves in bookstores simply don’t provide us enough information about Japan anymore.

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