SHERRY

For our visit to Japan this time round, we only spend 1 day 1 night in Tokyo as we have visited this city last time. We decided to focus more days on other parts of Japan: - Mount Fuji - Kyoto - Takayama and Shirakawa - Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route Our focus for this trip is of course - CHERRY BLOSSOM! Since we are travelling to so many parts of Japan, we bought the 7 days Japan railpass and make full use of it. We were in Japan for a total of 11 days. Hence, the challenge for us on the planning is to try to visit as many places as possible and travel with trains covered by the railpass within 7 days. You might be wondering why didn't we buy a 11 days railpass, because there is no such pass. The Japan railpass comes in 7, 14 and 21 days. We definitely wouldn't want to spend the extra money and waste the remaining 3 days. For transport between Narita Airport and Tokyo, the Japan railpass actually covers the Narita Express. However, we cannot be using our Japan railpa...

Upon arrival in Tokyo, we realised that we were a tad late as most of the cherry blossom has fallen from the trees. Nonetheless, we continued strolling around the Tokyo Imperial Palace to catch some strong trees that were still blossoming and yeah! We were still able to find some pretty amazing cherry blossoms! Hope we could find more cherry blossoms in other parts of Japan! Other than searching for cherry blossoms, we also went to the famous Tsukiji Fish Market for sushi! Yum Yum! We can't wait to explore other parts of Japan where we have never been before. After a well rested night, Woo Hoo! Mount Fuji, Here We Come! From Shinjuku station, we took the Odakyu Electric Line to Odawara, This line is not covered under JR railpass so we bought the tickets separately. Upon arrival at Odawara station, we bought the Fuji Hakone pass which is valid for 3 days. You can find more information on this pass  at this website . The pass allows you to use a number of trans...

We will be spending 3 nights in Kyoto and explore all the interesting attractions in Kyoto! Woo Hoo! We first checked in to our hotel, Sakura Terrace The Atelier, it is very nice and clean but the room is very small, hardly any space to move around. We booked a room with shared bathroom. Even though it is a shared bathroom, it is super clean. At the lobby, there is also a lounge where you can chill, have some tea and read some magazines. They have many different tea flavours to choose! The hotel is also located in a very convenient location, just 500m away from Kyoto Train station! Some supplies that you can borrow First, we went to Kiyomizu-dera temple. Take bus number 100 or 206 from Kyoto train station and alight at either Gojo-zaka or kiyomuzu-michi bus stop. The bus ride is about 15 mins. We just followed the crowd to get to the temple lol. We chill at a teahouse and have some snack From the Kiyomizu-dera temple, you can descen...