Sun, 25 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 21+1"
hmmm.... so according to the plan, this day would have been rather easy and straightforward. getting...

Sat, 24 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 21"
last day in japan for us - buhuuu. to lighten our mood we drove to the ghibli shop at tokyo station, a...

Fri, 23 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 20"
for today we decided to go the source of all the excellent food we had so far, namely tsukiji fish mar...

Thu, 22 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 19"
first thing today in the morning was to check if i had packed all my stuff for the camera. i had, and ...

Wed, 21 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 18"
the unthinkable happened today. and now that i think of it, i do not know how this could have happened...

Tue, 20 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 17"
remember when nina wanted to go to some beach? well, today we went to odaiba beach. and to get there o...

Mon, 19 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 16"
we started this day with a tea ceremony at our hostel, which was offered by one of the people running ...

Sun, 18 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 15"
day 15 is a sunday, and sunday means "yoyogi park"-time! or, in other words: seeing japanese youth cul...

Sat, 17 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 14"
tokyo, yay, i am back. so a little sightseeing today in the capital of japan. for easier travelling we...

Fri, 16 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 13"
today morning wakayama was still a ghost town, but fortunately we did not stay there for long, as we g...

Thu, 15 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 12"
today not much happened. reason is, we took the train back to the east, heading to wakayama. since we ...

Wed, 14 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 11"
today's trip is a day trip from hiroshima to one of the most famous sights of japan (according to our ...

Tue, 13 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 10"
this morning it finally worked - i got rid of my old broken suitcase. and it was as i was told. trashi...

Mon, 12 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 09"
one wheel on my suitcase was broken, but so far it was still working, sometimes it was blocked, but ge...

Sun, 11 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 08"
right in the morning we booked another night at the brighton city hotel in yamashina and also checked ...

Sat, 10 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 07"
with our base camp at the hotel, we started our day trip right after a western style breakfast at the ...

Fri, 09 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 06"
after getting up today, we had to look for a new hotel. since we wanted to go to osaka, we took our la...

Thu, 08 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 05"
today we went to the arashiyama area, which lies in the west of kyoto. so we went with the JR sagano l...

Wed, 07 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 04"
day four started where day three ended, but this time with a fully charged battery for my camera - yip...

Tue, 06 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 03"
we started this day with going to the gion bus stop, heading for the yasaka shrine[01-04]. it is said ...

Mon, 05 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 02"
so, time to explore kyoto today! for that we got ourselves a two-day ticket for the kyoto public trans...

Sun, 04 Aug 2013, "nostromo in hello kitty land again, day 01"
oooookay, this day was a bit of not as we had intended it to be, and here's why: first of all, edward ...