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How to Get From Tainan to Taipei // Taking the High Speed Rail in Taiwan (and local train)

January 24, 2021 by hollyGS

We woke up at 7:00am, and I made us a breakfast with the eggs, toast and mushrooms we had bough at the local grocery store. We then packed up and headed to the local Tainan train station. I had read that you can take a shuttle bus to the High Speed Rail from the bus station adjacent to the Tainan train station. We asked so many people, but this bus did not seem to exist. A gentleman at the bus […]

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First Impressions of Tainan | Fort Provintia 赤嵌樓

December 6, 2020 by hollyGS

After arriving in Tainan and dropping our bags off at our awesome airbnb, we headed out on an adventure to explore Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan!! Our first stop was at an old dutch fort, turned Qing Temple, turned Japanese Hospital, called Fort Provintia. It was 50 NTD each to enter the fort. This wasn’t a very large site and there were lots of tourists, so I felt very overwhelmed. I had quite a panic attack, which you can […]

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How to Get From Kaohsiung to Tainan (Local Train Do-it-Yourself)

November 29, 2020 by hollyGS

To make the journey from Kaohsiung to Tainan, we woke up pretty early, just in case it took us a few hours to figure out the process. We checked out of our airbnb and headed to Kaohsiung main train station to buy tickets to Tainan on the local train. The ticket machine was a lot like the one we had used to get tickets to Juifen. You put your money into the machine first, then select your number of people, […]

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How to get from Taipei to Jiufen (Local Train/Bus Do it Yourself!)

July 26, 2020 by hollyGS

I woke up at 5:30am, but managed to get back to sleep until 7:30am. Take that, Jet Leg! We went down to have the complementary breakfast of toast, cheese and coffee or tea. We met a nice man from Vietnam on the way to the breakfast room. At breakfast we met a lady, who I believe was Japanese (or at least she was speaking Japanese), she liked Jives’ Ranma 1/2 t-shirt. After breakfast we headed to the 711 to get […]

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Toronto to Taipei TAIWAN!

July 19, 2020 by hollyGS

We left our house at about 4:00am after a few hours of broken sleep. The drive to the airport took about an hour as usual. Nothing weird happened going through security (we actually didn’t get the bonus security checks like we usually do!) We had no problem printing our boarding passes OR boarding the flight!! Huzzah! After our last Air China flight experience from the end of our Japan trip, this was amazing! The flight to Vancouver was a little […]

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Nakano Broadway |AND Odaiba’s new Gundam Robot

June 14, 2020 by hollyGS

We spent the morning in Mitaka at the Ghibli Museum (you can read in our previous post all about that!) but on the way back to Tokyo we stopped off at Nakano Broadway. (To Book Train Travel in Japan Click Here) Nakano Broadway is a crazy nerd paradise! There are four floors ,and possibly a basement of everything an otaku could dream of: manga, figurines, costumes, trains, dolls, animation cells… We spent a few hours here and then had conveyor […]

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The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka Japan| How to get tickets

June 7, 2020 by hollyGS

We woke up and had coffee before heading to Mitaka for the Ghibli Museum. Mitaka is a city on the outskirts of Tokyo (to the west). You can easily access Mitaka station with your JR pass from central Tokyo. From our airbnb we took the Yamanote line to Shinjuku Station then transferred to the Chou JR line. The Chou line transects Tokyo, and you can get on it at a few stations across Tokyo. Mitaka is only a few stops […]

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Day Trip To Nara From Osaka JAPAN |Self Guided Walking Tour

March 15, 2020 by hollyGS

I woke up at 6:00am and had a coffee at the kotatsu as everyone else showered and got ready. We left the airbnb around 8:30am to head to Nara. The train to Nara is free with a JR pass, so long as you take the Yamatoji line. We went to Osaka central before transferring to this line. The ride took 50 minutes. (To Book Train Travel in Japan Click Here) We arrived at JR Nara Station around 10:00am. The station […]

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Exploring Dotombori |Kanazawa to Osaka Japan

February 22, 2020 by hollyGS

We were able to catch the 11:02am Thunderbird train from Kanazawa to Osaka. We arrived at the station, and gave our passes to the JR attendant, and they issued the tickets for the journey with no issue at all. We cannot recommend the JR pass enough!!!! How to get a JR pass. We arrived at Shin-Osaka, just outside Osaka city, at 2:05pm. To check times for trains we also recommend Hyperdia, it’s an amazing tool! (To Book Train Travel in […]

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How to Get From Tainan to Taipei // Taking the High Speed Rail in Taiwan (and local train)

First Impressions of Tainan | Fort Provintia 赤嵌樓

How to Get From Kaohsiung to Tainan (Local Train Do-it-Yourself)

How to get from Taipei to Jiufen (Local Train/Bus Do it Yourself!)

Toronto to Taipei TAIWAN!

Nakano Broadway |AND Odaiba’s new Gundam Robot

The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka Japan| How to get tickets

Day Trip To Nara From Osaka JAPAN |Self Guided Walking Tour

Exploring Dotombori |Kanazawa to Osaka Japan