JAPAN, 2017

After a few wet days in the incredible city of Tokyo staying in both the Shinjuku and Shibuya Districts we then visited the sleepy city of Kyoto staying in a traditional home in the Geisha district of Gion. We then travelled to Hiroshima visiting the peace memorial before heading off to the lights and bars of Osaka. The last town we visited before heading back to Tokyo for the last few days was Nara where wild deer roam the streets and parks. …It’s easy to say we loved Japan”

PART 1- TOKYO

Arriving to torrential rain I have to say I was a little concerned about all my electronics but that was pretty quickly overcome by Tokyo’s madnessly calm nature? Yeah strange, one of the biggest cities in the world but somehow still felt grounding. What a few days ahead we had.

PART 2- Kyoto

The old capital city as we were told, captured a time and giving you the closest taste to traditional districts from the houses to restaurants, temples etc, even though surrounded by the unstoppable force of evolution. As the building are legally capped at a certain height though Kyoto spreads its building across the landscape like a rice paddy. This place really touched our hearts.

PART 3: HIROSHIMA

Walking into Hiroshima I guess you could say I was a little uneducated or at least had no expectation. And beyond arriving by train and beginning to walk the street there was this incredibly stillness only as I would describe as a breathe out. I know that sounds weird but I guess I might have expected a slightly more heavy feeling having know the little history id known about Hisoshima’s past. For starters the regrowth and I don’t mean just the community but the landscape itself, its was almost like a forest years after fire took it all. Which we were to learn wasn’t far from the truth. As we left the peace park memorial Brittany and I simply just wept. We wept for how many suffered as the hands of a few.

PART 4: osaka

Osaka just had this feel like you were gonna be knocked over by some hip kid on a hoverboard or upset a bunch of singing mercenaries from Coruscant, it wasn’t that it was rough by any means it just felt like you were a main character out of Altered Carbon at times. Its neon lights and boats that floated down the streams pumping music filled with the tourist that can’t seem any other way to spend there credits, along with the smell of food through its streets. Heck of a place.

PART 5: nara

Ohhhh man, so basically deer roam the city. No I didn’t make a mistake, deer roam the city. You might think are there fences etc etc. No, Nara just seems to have a lot less impatient dual cab driving p platers on the road, instead people pay respects to these beautiful biscuit loving animals that have hundreds of years of integration into this community. As peaceful as it sounds when drinking Jack Daniels in a public park is legal you have to keep your wits about where your feet take you. As we later found out when we found ourselves lost for hours with no internet. Some would say we were found. haha.