Kinosaki

We recently celebrated our three year anniversary! Unfortunately for us, we were both sick on our anniversay AND on valentine's day (although Valentine's Krispy Kreme's were a wonderful treat), so we couldn't celebrate. However, the next weekend, Jonny spoiled me by booking us into a traditional Japanese 旅館 ryokan in Kinosaki: a magical onsen town about 3 hours from Osaka. And it was one of my highlights of Japan so far.

SpoCha (or the most fun possible ever)

Sorry I haven't been blogging much. It was excited at first but now it's boring and takes a lot of effort! We've had a busy and great few weeks; we even had heavy snowfall! 

A couple of weeks ago we spent the day at 'SpoCha'. Standing for 'Sports Challenge', Spocha is a magical place where you pay an entry fee and you can stay as long as you like and everything is included in the price...

Kobe

For our first adventure into Kobe we hopped off the train at Sannomiya and wandered around.

Tokyo Part 3!

The last post about our trip to Tokyo. On our last day we had arranged to meet Taeko, who I used to work with in London! She is Japanese and now living back in Tokyo - so it was great to be able to see her and have her show us around. Firstly, we went to Tokyo Skytree: the 'largest structure' in the world! Whatever that classification means...

Tokyo Part Two!

Today pretty much revolved around food. 

Tokyo!

Making the most of a three day weekend we took our first trip to Tokyo! We finished work, met at Shin-Osaka and took the shinkansen (bullet train) straight to Tokyo. It was a pretty surreal experience: travelling in our suits straight from work and arriving in Tokyo two and a half hours later. We arrived super late to our hotel (which was surprisingly super fancy), had a drink at the bar overlooking the metropolis at night and then to bed before our day of exploration...

Kinkaku-ji

One of the most beautiful places I have ever been. Beware.. many gratuitous shots of the same building to come.