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Osaka 2019: CoCo Ichibanya

It was just after 7:00pm when I finally got back to Namba Station in Osaka and by the time I arrived at my hostel I…

When I exited Okunoin Temple it was around 5:00pm and I knew it was time to start the long journey back to Osaka. I took…

Most of my time during my three-night stay in Osaka would actually be spent outside the city, and on my first morning I walked down…

Before ending my first night in Osaka I got myself an ice cream treat from a shop called Ice Dog. Instead of ice cream in…

Any visit to Osaka is not complete without snacking on some of the city’s famous takoyaki. Although you can find takoyaki in various parts of…

Since I had spent much of my day at Mt Shosha in Himeji, I didn’t arrive in Osaka until the evening but I was able…

With my time on Shikoku over I was back again on Honshu and the next part of my journey would bring me to the region…

Three years ago today my first trip across Japan and Korea began. For six weeks I wandered all across both nations, spending four and a…

One year ago today I got on a flight bound for Tokyo and began the journey that I’ve been writing about for the past several…

One of the days I was in Osaka a typhoon swept through town delivering very heavy rain at several points. A wet day like that…