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Hakodate 2017: Mt Hakodate at Night (函館山)

On my first night in Hakodate I took the ropeway up Mt Hakodate to see the city at night. The city of Hakodate was built…

In the afternoon I took a bus out to Lake Chuzenji, which is about six miles west of Nikko, higher up into the mountains. I…

Right next to Toshogu Shrine is the older but less famous Futarasan Shrine that is dedicated to the deities of three mountains in the Nikko…

My first bit of sightseeing in the mountain town of Nikko was at the Toshogu Shrine. The shrine holds the remains of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the…

On my first night in Nikko I went out for dinner with two other guys from my hostel. One of them was a British web…

Since I had arrived in Kamakura later in the afternoon I wasn’t able to do a lot of sightseeing at the town’s temples but it…

While I was staying in Tokyo I did a day trip down to the coastal town of Kamakura. My top priority while I was there…

In the shadow of Tokyo Tower is Zojoji Temple, which for whatever reason doesn’t seem to get much attention from the tourist horde. This relative…

After doing a day trip down to Kamakura (which I’ll discuss in a future post) I went up to the observation deck at the Roppongi…

If you want to get an observation deck view of Tokyo but don’t have a lot of money a good place to visit is the…