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Osaka, Japan

Leisure and Pleasure

Osaka is an enormous metropolis with almost 20 million inhabitants when you include the nearby cities, yet everything functions as if it were a much smaller city—traffic, metro, and train connections. We had a very nice hotel with an Italian restaurant at the bottom, which we used only on the last day while waiting for our departure to the airport. You should definitely eat Japanese food in Japan as it is also healthy—a lot of seafood, no bread, smaller portions, and many soups (miso soup, udon noodle soup, ramen, etc.)….read more

Takamatsu and Naoshima island

Leisure and Pleasure

After Kyoto, we went to Takamatsu city and Naoshima island. It was a great train experience, crossing many bridges and islands, always near the sea. On the way to our hotel, we saw a great mini-restaurant with an old grandmother who was closing her Udon noodle restaurant. It looked great, and she cooked and worked only from 11:00 to 14:00. When we arrived at our hotel, the girls at the reception desk were genuinely surprised that we arrived as tourists to their town, and even more so when they heard…read more

Kyoto, Japan

Leisure and Pleasure

From Sapporo, we went to Kyoto by Shinkansen train, and the travel scenery was great. It was the warmest in Kyoto during our three-week Japan vacation (around 36 degrees) with 100% humidity. We missed the nice weather in Hokkaido, where we enjoyed 25 degrees. We were all sweating a lot; I had a wet towel around my neck, mostly to clean the sweat from my bald head under a NY Yankees baseball cap. The city is very big, part of one enormous metropolis with Osaka and other cities around, but…read more

Hokkaido and Sapporo

Leisure and Pleasure

After Tokyo, we went to Hokkaido island and activated our RailPass, using the Shinkansen bullet train that travels up to 350 km/h. There is also the Seikan Tunnel, which connects Hokkaido with Honshu island and is about 54 km long. It is the second deepest and second longest tunnel in the world. We stayed in Sapporo, a city of 2 million people, which looks like it was built just a few days ago (all new buildings). For some reason, we noticed that a few more people stared at us (maybe…read more