Osaka Trips

PROLOGUE I am making this journal to hopefully inspire people to grab their bag and travel around the world This was my first trip alone outside of Canada, its a hastily planned trip so there were a lot of things that Ive overlooked like when …

8/7/08-8/9/08 - The flight nearly took 2 days. I got on the flight from JFK at about 10 and made a stop in Vancouver for a couple of hours, then continued the flight to Hong Kong International Airport and transferred to a Tokyo flight. Crazy …

Pictures For complete trip albums, go to Flickr @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jauderho/sets/72157602229609984/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/princesskonishi/sets/72157602234704887/ Most of the pictures were shot with a Canon 5D or Powershot …

My husband and I decided to take the trip of our lifetime to Japan. We traveled to eight cities in fifteen days. We were tired and sweaty the whole time, but it was great. The following is my trip report for Tokyo. We flew on JAL airlines. …

We landed at Kansai International in the afternoon, and made our way to Kyoto by the JR limited express train. Too late and too tired to explore the temples, we walked from Kyoto Station to the hotel passing Higashi Honganjii. The hotel, Ikoi-no-ie …

After an exhausting 17 hour journey from Melbourne to Osaka via Singapore, we finally touched down at Kansai International Airport at 8:00am yesterday. We were warned by Airline staff not to turn on our mobiles until successful disembarkation …

Day 1 of the trip. We are staying at the F1 Hotel tonight, and getting on the plane in the morning. Travelled down to Darling Harbour. looked around for some last minute souveneirs, and continued on to the hotel. Dad's Navman took us to the …

Here is the bonus...my honeymoon pics (they're G and I'm not Paris H - photographing my marital bedroom exploits is not amusing.) I had a great time planning this vacay and my husband really seemed to enjoy it. Yeah! Its totally the happiest …

We finished packing (I think), now we're trying to stay up as late as possible to get a head start on adjusting to the 16 hour time difference. We'll see how that goes... We're in Japan, aka "the future"! After 18 hours of traveling we finally …

We arrived in Tokyo around 4:00, and took the limousine bus to our hotel. The Kudan Kaikan hotel is just outside the grounds of the Imperial Palace. By the time we arrived, however, it was too dark to see anything. We showered and went to eat …