After spending 9 nights in Tokyo and 7 nights in Kyoto, we ended our time in Japan with a whirlwind journey west, covering roughly 1100 km (690 miles) and using just about every mode of transport possible: train, bus, ferry, street car/tram and taxi, before finally catching a flight to Seoul, South Korea. Visiting Japan…
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Kyoto Prefecture (a prefecture is analogous to a province or state) has a population of 2.61 million people, with just over half of those people living in the city of Kyoto, one of the oldest municipalities in Japan. While the mainland has quite a lengthy history of China encroaching on its neighbours, simple geography shielded…
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We left the sunny California desert and headed for the largest megacity in the world – Tokyo, population 37,274,000. February weather in Tokyo isn’t terrible, by Canadian standards. During our stay temperatures hovered around the 10° – 14°C (50° – 57°F) mark (we did have one day of snow with a high of only 0°C…
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