Jeju Island: Life on the Road
About 55 miles south of the Korean mainland is the island of Jeju. A friend of mine who used to live in Korea had suggested…
About 55 miles south of the Korean mainland is the island of Jeju. A friend of mine who used to live in Korea had suggested…
I’m not sure how KTX trains in Korea compare to the shinkansen trains of Japan, but one thing they definitely have in common is punctuality.…
From Fukuoka to Incheon International Airport is about a one hour, twenty minute flight; long enough to mentally practice basic Korean words and phrases and…
My cycling adventure in Itoshima had delayed my departure from there until the afternoon and left me very tired, to the point that I nearly…
I was getting closer to my flight from Japan to Korea but there was still a little time left. From Nagasaki I used my rail…
With my plans for Miyajima washed away in the rain, I returned to Hiroshima Station earlier than originally planned and continued my journey west across…
From my hostel in Hiroshima I took the tram to Hiroshima Station and then began the short trip to the island of Miyajima. A train…
At Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka I purchased a reservation for my shinkansen (bullet train) to Hiroshima. The shinkansen was set to depart Osaka at 1:09pm,…
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It only takes about 30 minutes to get to Osaka from Kyoto by train. Because of their relatively close proximity it’s certainly possible to visit…
From Kanazawa I set out for Kyoto, the old capital of Japan and a city that is probably second only to Tokyo in terms of…