Our Hiroshima Tour Shinkansen a highlight and blessing, reaching speeds of 300km/hr; yet doesn't feel anything like it. Only proof is when eyes make contact with the landscape whizzing by! Oh my hat! OMH. All amenities thought of onboard

The Shimanami Kaido 60 kilometer long toll road connects Japan's main island of Honshu to the island of Shikoku, passing over six small islands in the Seto Inland Sea. AKA the Nishiseto Expressway. There are two other land connections between Shikoku and Honshu, but the Shimanami Kaido is the only one traversable by foot or bicycle. The Shimanami Kaido begins on Honshu in Onomichi City. It then leads across the six islands of Mukaishima, Innoshima, Ikuchijima, O...

Japan is a nation that famously takes their working week very seriously. Hours are often long and hard and, as paid vacation is relatively limited when compared to many western countries, the decision to take time off is not taken lightly. This goes a long way to explain why Golden Week is so fervently celebrated in Japan. Golden Week straddles the spring months, from April 29 to May 5, and is marked by four national holidays. As such, Toyota & other busines...

WHO KNEW?!? I mean Gyunyu! Milk

The year that flew...wizzed by in the blink of an eye! Time flies when having fun :-) A celebratory, reminescent weekend away planned for the romantic mountains in Gifu Town. Saturday morning saw us up and on the road before the crack of dawn, sleepy dust still ion the production line. Everything packed in just in case, and a list of possibilities researched by Tam in hand. We headed to the Gifu Pagoda, red coloured shrine on the hillside, visible to the...