Volcano love

At the end of our trip we came back to Tokyo, but before we did that we spent a night in Hakone to not only enjoy the onsen and ryokan but to visit the volcanic region of Hakone. After taking traines, cable cars and a rope way, we were finally there: At a former sulfur...

Welcome to a Ryokan!

We spent our first night in a Ryokan in the mountain town Hakone. It is a small town about an hour away from Tokyo that is famous for hot springs, Ryokans and on clear days, on the Hakone circular route, views of Mount Fuji. A Ryokan is a traditional Japanese inn where the floors are...

Temple Time!

On our journey through Japan we haven‘t visited many temples, actually just two. It is not that we don‘t find them beautiful, but we figured it is a bit similar to the commonly known church-fatigue where at some point you really don‘t want to see another church… But being in Kyoto, the city of temples,...

The best meal of our life (so far)

If you know us even a little bit you know that food is not just something we eat to keep alive, it is our life. We love cooking, baking, preparing and growing our own food but we also love to enjoy food that is prepared for us. This could be Ramen or an eclair au...

Oh deer

After the hotel room disappointment in Fukuoka, we checked into our next hotel „the grand prince hotel Hiroshima“ pleading that this hotel wasn‘t nearly deserted and weird. Ibut before that we went to Hiroshima city center, Gabriel went to the atomic bomb museum, while I enjoyed a smoothie bowl and wrote blog posts and then...