No words can describe our evening’s entertainment – the videos don’t show the colour, the chaos or the craziness nearly enough. Yes that is a panda riding a rhino being chased by a monster. YouTube Direct YouTube Direct YouTube Direct

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For anyone who has stumbled on the NHK Japanese TV app on your Apple TV you might have seen Japan Railway Journal, a great show about Japan’s fantastic railways, we watch it all the time.  It’s sometimes filmed in a bar with a train set, so we had to visit. This bar took over an […]

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This contraption is out the front of one of the cafes and it is used to dry fish, not the most pleasant of smells.  But i’m sure it could be worse. YouTube Direct

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Nissan have just opened their brand new showcase store on the best corner in Tokyo. The display featured a pretty impressive robot milling machine and a pretty cool concept sports car. Sony took over the top 5 floors with displays of all their products. YouTube Direct

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Pres Trump is in town and security around the city is out of control with police road blocks on many of the roads. Most of the police look about 19 years old and don’t appear to have much idea, but they sure look good from a distance. Power poles are adorned with Japan and USA […]

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It’s Sunday morning and it’s off to Tokyo for the last leg of our trip. Once again we take the bullet train for the two hour 20 minute trip. The train staff are once again as polite as ever bowing overtime they enter and exit our cabin. Each of the trains have 16 carrages with […]

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We woke up and left the hotel and much to the delight of someone a huge bear themed Christmas display had been installed overnight

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Plenty of interesting things to see here, with hundreds of shops selling just about everything. The food is the most fun with weird and wonderful fruit and vegetables and of course the seafood. If it comes from the sea it is eaten and the bits we would toss out are often the tastiest and most […]

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Next stop was a visit to some of the small lanes in what is known as the Geisha district. Being mid morning there were no Geisha about, they usually appear later in the evening to head to their fine dining establishments where they work. The narrow streets were lined if small cafes and other interesting […]

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On the way back to Osaka we dropped by the Suntory Whiskey Factory for a bit of a look. Unfortunately due to a sign saying “taking photographs of the staff for our personal pleasure” we only have photos of whiskey. Suntory is huge, they now own Jim Beam, Makers Mark and Canadian Club just to […]

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With the railway museum taking up so much time yesterday we decided to return to Kyoto and take in a bit more of the sights. The first stop was to one of the most famous temples in the city. It was jam packed with people, with tens of thousands spending there Saturday morning visiting what […]

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This brand new museum was pretty cool with dozens of trains on display including bullet trains, suburban trains and around a dozen fully restored steam engines. Spread over 3 levels there were heaps of interactive displays and outdoors you could explore a old railway station and even go on a steam engine ride. Being a […]

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