Japan – The Travelogue.

Osaka, Japan

Gavin Greene — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000

This post is part of ‘The Big Trip’, when Nicola and I took a few months off to travel around the world. Click here to see more As well as being one of the edgier, grittier cities, Osaka is known as one of the best food cities in Japan, if not the world. So we did our very best to get stuck in, putting in solid shifts for breakfast, lunch and dinner each day. More okonomiyaki…

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Kyoto, Japan

Gavin Greene — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000

This post is part of ‘The Big Trip’, when Nicola and I took a few months off to travel around the world. Click here to see more And to be fair, that’s pretty much what you get. Kyoto is an absolutely beautiful city. And I know we were tourists, but our plan was to see as much of the city as possible without getting stuck in big crowds of tour groups. We wanted to explore the shrines…

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Hiroshima, Japan

Gavin Greene — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000

This post is part of ‘The Big Trip’, when Nicola and I took a few months off to travel around the world. Click here to see more One of the quirks of the British school system is that most pupils only ever learn about two things: the Tudors and the second world war. Photographs of the atomic bomb dome in Hiroshima featured in many of my history textbooks, so I was curious to visit…

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Takayama, Japan

Gavin Greene — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

This post is part of ‘The Big Trip’, when Nicola and I took a few months off to travel around the world. Click here to see more When you arrive at the shinkansen station, your ticket tells you which door you need to board at. Then when it’s time to board (and shinkansen trains are almost never late), there are markings along the platform telling you exactly where your door will be.

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Hakone and Mount Fuji, Japan

Gavin Greene — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

This post is part of ‘The Big Trip’, when Nicola and I took a few months off to travel around the world. Click here to see more We headed to the little spa town of Hakone, which sits near the point where two tectonic plates meet, causing all sorts of geological knock on effects, one of which is the dormant volcano known as Mount Fuji, and another is the local groundwater being heated…

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Tokyo, Japan

Gavin Greene — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

This post is part of ‘The Big Trip’, when Nicola and I took a few months off to travel around the world. Click here to read more We landed in Tokyo in the early evening and navigated the metro system to reach our little hostel, the fantastic Plat Hostel Keikyu Asakusa Station. Our room was tiny but spotless, with just enough space for us and our bags. I’d been to Tokyo once before…

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Tokyo, Japan

Gavin Greene — Fri, 20 May 2016 14:06:06 +0000

Disclaimer: I think it’s worth noting now to my current and any future employers that I also carried out a full week of work. Everything you’re about to read happened between the hours of 5pm and 9am. One of my favourite films is Lost in Translation. The film stars Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson as two westerners acclimatising to Tokyo during their brief stay. The characters in the film…

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