Catch Us if You Can

Today we took all of the modes of transportation to get us from Osaka to Tokyo, with a long detour into Ghibli Park near Nagoya. If you know a lot about Studio Ghibli, great! There a tons of pics below that will be familiar to you. If you know nothing about Studio Ghibli, this post

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Good morning! Another busy day that began before the sun. Today we got to head to Universal Studios Japan, which is a theme park Jimmy and I have never been to! We were especially excited about Super Nintendoland, and I thought we had done so much research to prepare. I felt ready for it. The

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Good morning! This one may be a little on the short side, as we spent a large portion of our day on the Shinkansen from Nagano to Osaka. However, there are some fun things involved in the day. Firstly, our hotel in Nagano is the Metropolitan hotel which is located next door to the train

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Good morning! I get to write about a lot of fun things that we did today, but first I want to make sure I don’t forget to mention a weird quirk: if you’re ever in the mountains around Nagano, bring your own soap. I have no idea why, but many public bathrooms don’t have hand

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Good morning! Another jam packed day today, this time in the very picturesque town of Nozawa. I really can’t oversell how gorgeous this place is. It’s a bit more remote feeling than Hakuba, mainly because you’ve got to take a train and bus to get here. We thought it would be fun to visit a

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Hello everyone! Let’s just start things out by saying that I woke up at 3am… and didn’t go back to sleep. So that’s where we are today. Jam packed day today, with mountains, mishaps, and miso! Overall not too bad. We started out today knowing that our little group would be splitting up. Jimmy and

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