Our trip to Hakone started early and began with, again, the hard truth that speed came with a price. Our JR East Pass was much cheaper than...

I often used the analogy of Jakarta and Bekasi (though I should have used Tangerang as it's more accurate) to illustrate Tokyo and Yokoh...

Up until one week before our trip, I was still oblivious to the fact that we were going to Gala Yuzawa. I always thought that Niigata was wh...

The term third day was an inside joke. Back when we were planning for the trip , anything that couldn't fit into the itinerary, we'...