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my hobby is shopping
Well no, not really. But this is something a lot of students used to say to me when I taught English here. Just to be clear “students” were customers at a commercial English teaching business and...
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A bit odd, considering my last post was about shopping, but I have noticed an increase in people saying they weren’t doing presents this year for Christmas. I wondered whether it was an increase in...
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Osaka
We had some plans for things we were going to do. Monday was supposed to be Koya-San a mountain with temples, then switched to the whiskey tour, but that was fully booked. So monday was a sleep in,...
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Kyoto day 1
On Christmas Day we got up early (earlyish) and caught a train to Kyoto. We caught a local train, it took about 45 minutes, so we were in Kyoto before 9. We chucked the overnight bag and umbrellas in...
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back in Osaka
Trying something a bit different. I seem to have fallen behind on my posts about the trip, so will blog for today, and then try to catch up on the days in between. We returned to osaka last night, and...
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kyoto shrine visit
Today we did the new year shrine visit in Kyoto. Yes, it was January 2, but the crowds at the main shrines in Kyoto can make the ones we saw in Osaka seem small. So we wait a day and then go. Still...
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Kyoto day three
Day three in Kyoto (December 27). This was planned to be around Kiyomizudera and the Higashiyama area. Kiyomizudera is a big temple complex, around a spring of holy water. It’s up the side of a hill,...
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kraft shopping in kyoto- needles
I meant to do one big post, but have not yet been organised enough. One issue is my pictures- I overloaded the cloud, so they were taken off my devices and put in our main computer. And I don’t have...
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Friday in Tokyo- shopping and baseball
So, Friday on our Tokyo trip was going to be shopping. G and M headed off to Akihabara, and I went to Nippori, aka fabric town. I noticed when I got off the train that there seemed to be a lot of...
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Tokyo trip – shopping
Day two of our Tokyo trip was always going to involve shopping. We headed out to kappabashi, also known as kitchen town. We have been there several times, so this visit was going to be about buying...
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