We spent two nights in an Airbnb in Hakone. We took cable cars up Mount Hakone, sailed on the pirate ship on Lake Ashi and had beautiful views of Mount Fuji.
Welcome to our blog, following our family trips and holidays around the world. We live in Gloucestershire, UK but have also spent a year living in New Jersey, USA. We love using the school holidays to travel to new places and explore. Spending time with our two children, climbing mountains, splashing around in the sea on the coast or road tripping across Europe and the US. We hope you will enjoy our blogs designed to help us remember the great times we have had and hopefully provide you with helpful tips if you are following in our footsteps.
We spent two nights in an Airbnb in Hakone. We took cable cars up Mount Hakone, sailed on the pirate ship on Lake Ashi and had beautiful views of Mount Fuji.
A day in Kyoto using trains and buses to visit Fushimi Inari Taisha, To-ji Temple and Nishiki Market. We also went to Kyoto Train Station in the evening to see the light show on the staircase.
We took the train from Kyoto to spend the day in Nara. We visited Kofuku-ji and Todai-ji but spent most of our time feeding the deer crackers!
We took a boat trip from Hiroshima to Miyajima Island to see the deer and visit the orange gate of Itsukushima Jinga.
This was a travel day between Tokyo and Hiroshima. We used the bullet train which took only four hours to travel approximately 800km. We checked into our hotel for the next few days and wandered down to the Peace Memorial Park.
Our second day in Tokyo. We visited Shibuya Crossing, Meiji Jingu and had our first ever hotpot for lunch. We also visited our first Don Quijote which was a seven floor megastore! In the evening we had tickets for Shibuya Sky