| Page Views: 7,420 Last Visit to Japan: April, 2003 | Japan, one of our favorite countries by tompt - last update: May 14, 2006 |
In 1992 we were able to visit a fascinating country in the east. One week in Japan. It is not enough. The Japanese world is so different from our European that it took all week to get used to it. The customs, the food, the language, the people it is all different. I didnīt know how to eat with chopsticks, I didnīt know it is a custom to buy one bottle of beer for the two of us, and so on.
The written language is to difficult and I felt so stupid to stand in front of a train not knowing if this train was stopping in the city I want to go to. But it was an experience that I didnīt want to miss. One day we will go to Japan again, and try to understand more about this country.
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From the 27th of August until the 16th of September 2001 we visited Japan again. This time we made a three week tour with a dutch tourgroup, Djoser http://www.djoser.nl This dutch tourcompany organises the transport to Japan, the lodging and the transport to the hotels. The rest of the time you are free to do what ever you want. I think it is a great way to travel. The boring tasks are done by them and saved us a lot of time. And we are able to see the sites we wanted to see, not only
the sites where all tourists go to. The only down side is that we stayed only in the cities that are big in tourism.
We travelled from Tokyo through the Japanese Alps, south to Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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In the spring of 2003 we had another chance to visit Japan.
From Osaka where we attended a VT meeting, we went on to Kyoto. From there to the japanese alps where we stayed in Ogimachi, Takayama, Shin Hotaka and Takato. From Takato we went to our last stop: Tokyo.
This trip was organised brilliantly by the dutch travelagent: Passaat reizen.
More about them: http://www.passaat.nl
More info on Japan :
JNTO, japan tourist info - http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng
Japan guide - http://www.japan-guide.com
Japan Atlas - http://web-japan.org/atlas/index.html
If you have time please visit our city pages:
- Osaka, a modern city with a great aquarium.
- Tokyo, the capital of Japan
- Kyoto, a former capital and maybe the most cultural city of Japan.
- Takayama, a very tourist minded small city in the Japan alps.
- Takato, the town to see cherryblossom.
and please visit our travelogues:
- All over Japan, a travelogue full with things that we noticed, some are funny or strange for a non-japanese.
- More Japan, a travelogue with things we saw in Japan.
- Japan all over, in this travelogue we have some tips and pics about staying in a japanese hotel.
The other travelogue titles speak for themselves...
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pure1942 Sun Jun 28, 2009 20:58 UTC
Great pics and tips Tom. Looking forward to visiting Japan for myself next January. Thanks for sharing. Brian | Toshioohsako Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:00 UTC
you caught very nice pictures of castles, shrines, cherry-blossom, etc. I like your first Japan page with children and bicycle. Its a typical scene. | sailor_p Mon Jul 16, 2007 03:10 UTC
Good overview of Japan. Love the pix of sakura! :) | Paul2001 Sat Dec 17, 2005 21:51 UTC
Japan is a fascinating country. Your tips are especially helpful for anyone traveling there. |
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