I happened to chance upon Nabana no Sato while researching our Nagoya trip, and while it’s not in Nagoya (it’s in Mie prefecture), it is near Nagoya and just a 30-min drive! For people who are not driving, there is also a direct bus from…
It’s finally November, which means… It’s time for viewing autumn leaves in Tokyo! Autumn is my absolute favorite season! There’s just something deeply captivating about the fiery reds and bright yellows that radiate so brilliantly from the leaves as they transition to their eventual…
We signed up for a full-day Grand Canyon tour during our weekend in Las Vegas! I was pretty excited to see my first wonder of the world! Carys picked out the tour (saving me the research effort, heh) and I was told it was…
When one thinks of lavender in Hokkaido, Furano is the first place to come to mind, because they have many, MANY lavender farms. On our latest trip to Hokkaido, we managed to visited several lavender farms in Furano! We were told that the best time…
(can you guess which movie the image above is from? if you can, I salute you!) This is my first visit to Ghibli Museum after so many years! This museum, like some others (eg. Fujiko F Fujio Museum aka the Doraemon Museum) requires tickets…