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KAPPA FISHING in Tono, Iwate Prefecture Japan. (Winter Fishing in Japan)

January 18, 2024 by hollyGS

I woke up at 5am and wrote in my book and had a coffee as Jives slept. At 6am I headed down to the onsen for the opening, hoping to get it to myself. As I arrived a young boy and his mom were heading down to the onsen as well. It was nice to only have a few people in the bath, as one more lady arrived. I spent about 30 minutes in the water and then dried off […]

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First Experience in a Japanese PUBLIC BATH // Hot springs in Northern Japan

January 14, 2024 by hollyGS

First Experience in a Japanese PUBLIC BATH // Hot springs in Northern Japan

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Travelling to Northern Japan (Activating our JR passes)

January 7, 2024 by hollyGS

We walked to Asakusa station, but on the Ginza subway line. We paid the fare and went to Ueno station where we got on the JR Yamanote line, my favourite train line ever, to Tokyo Station. At Tokyo station we found the JR railway cafe to exchange our JR pass vouchers to our JR passes. We took a number from the machine and waited a few minutes for a lady to help us. The JR are not as elaborate now […]

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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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High Speed Bullet Train| Jiufen to Taipei to Kaohsiung Taipei 高雄 (How to)

August 16, 2020 by hollyGS

We planned on waking up at 6:30am to explore the streets of Jiufen before the crowds arrived, but it was raining so hard. So instead we sat in bed and Jives made us coffee. We waited until 8:30am and packed up our stuff before heading down to the main building for breakfast. Breakfast was a variety of interesting dishes: cucumbers, butter melon, a fermented green veggie, tofu in soy sauce, some meat mush (that Jives had to eat), an egg, […]

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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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KAPPA FISHING in Tono, Iwate Prefecture Japan. (Winter Fishing in Japan)

First Experience in a Japanese PUBLIC BATH // Hot springs in Northern Japan

Travelling to Northern Japan (Activating our JR passes)

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

High Speed Bullet Train| Jiufen to Taipei to Kaohsiung Taipei 高雄 (How to)

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