Tagged: Japan

After the chaos, the noise, the lights, the intensity of Tokyo – it was time to go for a chill out in Hakone. You can do Hakone in a day tip from Tokyo, but we thought it would be nice to spend more time than that in the Japanese countryside. Hakone is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, and yes that means that we were close to Mount Fuji. What a stunning mountain. We got the curiously-named Romancecar from the maze of Shinjuku to Hakone – not a Shinkansen train but impressive in that after the passengers get off at …

Ohhhhh Tokyo. Where do I start? Should anyone that knows me be reading, then you’ll know I booked flights with my sister to go in 2020. Two days after booking them, I read a small news article about a mystery virus in China. Then they carried on with mask-wearing for a good year or two after we discarded them, so I decided to wait a bit longer before re-booking. Then my sister was diagnosed with heart failure. I wasn’t going without her. And around last July, on bonus day at work, I checked the flight prices – just £850 return …