TheTechMatterAnswer: Japan Travel & Internet survival guide

After the trip to Nikko, in the travel plans that I predicted I placed a visit to Hakone, around the lake Hashi at the foot of Mount Fuji (Fuji san), using no less than 5 different means of transport for the journey. However, after a visit to Nikko of the day before I wanted to [...]

The today’s trip, for the fourth day in Tokyo was Nikko, a town at the entrance to Nikko National Park, which contains a cluster of mausoleums, Shintoist shrines and Buddhist temples. We departed at the morning from Ueno, not too soon, after our usual breakfast of bread, jam and fruit juice. Using first Shinkansen train [...]

On the third day in Tokyo, we started the morning with a visit to the National Museum: I have to say that the only thing that disappointed us about this trip was this museum. From the tourist’s perspective  there’s nothing to see and even if one were an history expert would remain perplexed as the [...]

This day should be devoted to visiting the Tokyo National Museum, but inexplicably and without any notice even on the official site,  the museum was closed. So we spent all afternoon and what remained of the morning to the shops of Akihabara, a district of electronics, computer, anime, manga, music, and action figures (and various [...]

Finally we arrived in the most populated city in the world: Tokyo. Here we stayed at the Sutton Place Hotel in Ueno: it is a comfortable hotel with the usual electronic toilet, air conditioning, refrigerator and Internet connection via LAN as we found in the other two hotels and Italian breakfast. In the morning we [...]

On this day we had time only up to 3:00pm because of our train leaving for Tokyo. I admit that was a mistake to choose to leave Kanazawa so soon, since we could not calmly watch all the attractions. In the morning we got up and we had breakfast, for me in Italian style and [...]

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 [...]