As we were now on the coast to catch our ferry to Seonyudo Island we stopped by a local raw fish restaurant to try out some of the local delicacies. We parked by what seemed an office or apartment building. However, this was a chinese style building with restaurants stacked on each floor. The ground floor lobby has large fish pools where you can choose your catch and have it sent up to your table. We went to one of the upper floor restaurants where they had ocea...

The next stop on our tour was to the Jeonju Film Studios. This was one of the stops I was most excited about. I've never been to a film studio or closed set before and was eager to see a production taking place. Unfortunately there was no shooting taking place during our visit but it would still give me a good insight into how a production is made. The studios were very easy to drive into and surprisingly did not have any gates or security checkpoint. The facili...

I've stayed in a hanok home before in Seoul's Bukchon hanok village and was looking forward to the chance to stay in another traditional home. Hanok Homes are traditional raised wood houses with clay tile roofs. They are built in clusters and narrow alleys and always make for scenic shots of their roof tiles. The first home I stayed in at Bukchon you can call a house as it was small complex. However, this can time the home can be considered a 'villa' as it was a ...

This weekend I was invited on a weekend trip again by TheKoreaBlog with a group of other bloggers from Korea and Overseas. Originally the planned destination was going to be Ulleongdo and Dokdo Islands which is currently making headlines due to Japanese claims to the island. After lots of back and forth trying to co-ordinate the schedule with the other invited guests (who mostly weren't happy about the choice of Dokdo for political reasons) the organizers decide...

Another problem I was having with my trip was figuring out my transportation. Last time I had gone for five days I traveled from Tokyo to Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Kobe, so bought a 7 day Japan Rail pass for $350. This time I would only be staying on the southern island of Kyushu. A full JR 7 Day pass was not worth it. There is a JR East past that covers the north half of the country East of Tokyo but not for the western half in the south. A friend told me about th...