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Longest train journey evar!
Yesterday I made the trip from Hiroshima to Nagasaki. Since I’m travelling with the Seishun Juuhachi Kippu, a super-cheap ticket aimed at students (the best deal you can get for train travel in Japan,...
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Since arriving back from Nagasaki on the 26th (which I did do safely, despite the fact that my travel blogging seems to have stopped several hundred miles away) things have been busy in a not-good way....
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It’s 6.36am, and I’ve been awake since about 5am. Bored of lying in bed unable to sleep, I thought I may as well get up and do something constructive – upload photos and write my blog. Unpacking seems...
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Miyajima
After leaving Tomonoura at about 4pm, I got to Hiroshima at 7pm, and met up with Sharifa in a hostel close to the station. She had travelled straight down from Nagoya, leaving at 6am, which gave her...
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima’s main attractions, if they can be called that, are primarily centred around the park constructed in remembrance of the atomic bomb that was dropped on the city at 8.15am on the 6th of August...
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Nagasaki – Day 1
Getting to Nagasaki involved a 10 hour journey from Hiroshima, which you can read about on its own post. I arrived in the evening and headed straight to the Minshuku Tanpopo, a family run B&B with...
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Nagasaki – Day 2
If yesterday was all about Eastern, today was all about Western. It started off at Glover Garden, a park on a hill overlooking the harbour and based around the house of Thomas Blake Glover, a Scot who...
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It’s funny how you can become so wrapped up in a new life that things in an old life just slip away into a big murky pool of forgotten-ness. Like this blog. Last time I wrote, it was about Nagasaki,...
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My Japanese Life (Part One)
Long time readers of my musings, of which I suspect there are actually very few, will know that this blog started out as 外忍者 – gai ninja – or “sneaky foreign person”. It charted my journey through...
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My Japanese Life (Part Three)
The last of the three posts about Japan, this is just pure tourist porn. If you’ve ever been tempted to visit, you really should. And if you haven’t, or you’ve got some pre-conceived ideas of what...
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