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Month: April 2017

Sunday 30th April – Sightseeing around Seoul

April 30, 2017 Xanthe South Korea 2017

When we arrived at the hotel last night we received a message saying that the guide would pick us up

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Saturday 29th April – new town new country

April 29, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

Today we leave Japan for South Korea, unfortunately our flight isn’t until 3.45 luckily we don’t have to checkout until

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Friday 28th April – A final tour of Tokyo

April 28, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

So today is our last full day in Japan and we decided that we would explore the Odaiba district, this

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Thursday 27th April – A day trip to Nikko

April 27, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

Today for reasons that made perfect sense when we were booking this trip we have arranged to go on a

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Wednesday 26th April – Full circle

April 26, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

Today we head back to Tokyo and the final part of our Japan trip. Our train left at 9.38 and

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Tuesday 25th April – the township of Takayama

April 25, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

We have a guide today to take us round Takayama which will be good so after breakfast we went downstairs

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Monday 24th – Takayama in bloom

April 24, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

We are on our own today and the plan is to go and visit the Hilda No Sato (folk village)

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Sunday 23rd April – Journey to Takayama

April 23, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

Today is all about getting to our next stop which is Takayama also know as little Kyoto. We got up

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Saturday 22nd April – monuments and memorials

April 22, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

This morning we went to Miyajima which is an island separated from the mainland by the 500 metre wide Onoseto

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Friday 21st April – beauty and the bomb

April 21, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

Today we head for Hiroshima but on the way we are stopping at Himeji Castle which is another world heritage

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Thursday 20th April – World heritage sites abound

April 20, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

Today we set off for Nara which I think has more sites protected by the World Heritage organisation than any

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Wednesday 19th April – Kyoto and the world heritage sites

April 19, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

After breakfast we went to reception and met up with our guide for the day and discussed what we wanted

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Tuesday 18th April – Next stop Kyoto

April 18, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

Last nights Japanese meal was another five courses but this time we were allowed to sit up to a table

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Monday 17th April – tantalising glimpses of Mount Fuji

April 17, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

The forecast for today was that it would become overcast later in the day so we set off in search

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Sunday 16th April – Hakone here we come

April 16, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

Today we leave Tokyo but we decided to get a lunch time train so that we didn’t have to rush,

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Saturday 15th April – The imperial palace grounds

April 15, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

It was a little overcast this morning it still nice and warm so we started the day by going back

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Friday 14th April – Around Tokyo

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We have a guide today to take us to the main places around Tokyo, we met in reception at about

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Thursday 13th April – The land of the rising sun

April 13, 2017 Xanthe Japan 2017

After what actually felt like quite a short flight and almost exactly 24 hours (on the clock) from when we

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