We started our morning with breakfast at the ryokan. We had organised the day before to have breakfast at 8am and we weren't sure if they brought the meal to us or what. So we waited until 8am and then a few minutes past our phone started to ring and the lady informed us that our breakfast was ready in the dining room. So we quickly got dressed and located the dining room. Breakfast was huge! We had cereal and fruit and toast and scrambled eggs. It was the bigges...

Today we moved house from Ikebukuro to Yudanaka. Yudanaka is about three hours from Tokyo and we had to take three trains to get the there including a Shinkansen and an electric train. About half way through the journey we started to see a lot of snow and when we arrived Yudanaka was smothered in snow. We started to trek our way from the station to our ryokan, Shimaya, and as we were walking a car pulled up next to us and the man called out the window "where ar...

This morning we were up early at 6:30am to go on our day trip to Nikko, a small town about two hours out of Tokyo that is famous for its many shrines and temples. We caught a direct Shinkansen to Nikko and bought some snacks from the station bakery to enjoy on the way. We arrived in Nikko at 9:30am (which is earlier than some of the mornings we have been out and about lately). We visited the information centre first up and grabbed a map of the area. The lady ...

Today we knew we were going to go to the owl cafe in the afternoon but didn't have any plans for the rest of the day. So after a bit of brainstorming over breakfast, we decided to spend the morning in Akihabara as Shannon wanted to check it out again when it hopefully wasn't as busy. We had gotten up fairly late so by the time we got to Akihabara we only had a bit over an hour before we had to start heading to the owl cafe. We spent the time we had weaving in a...

Today we had a superb day in Yokohama! We were a bit late getting up because I guess the drinks from last night made us a bit sleepy. We had to activate our JR Rail Passes as well so that took up time. By the time we made it to Yokohama (which is about 40mins outside of Tokyo) it was around 11:30am. We headed straight for the ramen museum which was easy to find. It was only ¥300 to get in and inside there are three levels with the bottom two decorated like a 19...