We had been in Japan for almost three weeks and our impression of the country was primarily influenced by the charming people we met.…

We returned to the Flower Carpet the following morning, Saturday, and enjoyed listening to a choir of school children looking very smart in their…

One afternoon we were a little disorientated when we got off a bus close to our hotel and we're spending a few minutes deciding…

We spent a few days staying in the largest city in Hokkaido before we caught our plane back to the UK.  Sapporo was famous…

We caught the bus to the local town of Kutchan, a sprawling and not very pretty place with wide roads set out in a…

The area in which we were staying at Hirafu was a winter ski resort and quite sparsely populated in the summer months and at…

   We visited onsen, a Japanese thermal bathing spa at a local hotel.  It cost £4 to go in and there was very strict…

We had lunch in Date at a restaurant that served tasty little dishes ordered at the table using an iPad that displayed thumbnails of…