TheTechMatterAnswer: Japan Travel & Internet survival guide

Kanazawa is a city that we have chosen to test some  aspects of traditional Japanese culture. In particular, we decided to stay for a night in an expensive but excellent Japanese-style hotel (Ryokan): The Takitei. After travel of a little more than two hours from Osaka, we came to the modern JR station of Kanazawa, [...]

On this day we wake up late in the morning and one of us, tired from the labors of the previous days, decided to walk alone in Osaka alone and not go through the streets of Kyoto by bicycle. For this new appointment in Kyoto we decided a more “in touch” approach with the city [...]

Himeji is a small town that has only an attraction to see: its castle. In these terms seems not worthwhile to visit this place, indeed, the castle in question is one of the most beautiful castles in Japan. Himeji’s castle is one of the few original castles of the early 1600 remained perfectly intact. Is [...]

Nara, named “the deer city” was the first capital of Japan and is located a few kilometers from Osaka and can be reached easily by Yamatoji line from JR Tennoji Station to Nara (42 min). The town is small and one can visit it quietly walking along the paths through the woods. The whole town [...]

For the second day in Japan, after eating bread, marmelade, banana and orange juice in our awesome hotel, we start the morning at 9:50pm taking the Shinkansen (high speed train) from Osaka  to Kyoto, and in less than 20 minuts we reached the destination. The JR station in Kyoto is a very futuristic structure that [...]

Our journey to the land of the rising sun started from  Venice, with a stopover in Helsinki, directed to the airport in Kansai. We traveled with Finnair (good service but the food was not exceptional). We arrived around 12:30 am in a really excellent hotel in Osaka (Arietta Hotel). We then did a little stroll [...]