Japan is the only country in the world with more pets than children. An interesting statistic when you see how well behaved their kids seem […]

Most things on a trip like this are planned but then the unexpected can happen. Namely, because either you didn’t do your homework or as […]

Nara was high on my list of places to visit, as the old capital of Japan before Kyoto, and Kyoto before Tokyo. The draw: greenery […]

Kyoto may have two of the most photographed spots in Japan and both were on today’s plan. The first, the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove. Only bettered […]

After two glossy cities Tokyo and Nagoya, and another supersonic train journey, it was refreshing to arrive in Kyoto. Here all your visions of Japan […]

I was aware that Japan produced a huge amount of anime, Japanese animation, but I had not realised, until coming here, how important cartoon characters […]

さようなら東京 I not sure that I fell in love with Tokyo, but I did fall in love with the Japanese people. I don’t think that […]

teamLab Planets Tokyo is an arts museum awarded a Guiness Book of Records for most visited museum in the world for 2023. Two and half […]

Michelle Obama, 2016. How high should we go? I want to put my head in the clouds, and did exactly that yesterday. The Skytree in […]

22 hours travelling including 4 hours sleep in a claustrophobic, hard, upright seat in an overhot plane is really not easy. But then I was […]