Booking hotels in Japan when you don’t have decent proficiency in the Japanese language is a headache. I didn’t have the stomach to have others suffer my very-rusty spoken Japanese, so I turned to Rakuten for all my lodging needs. Rakuten does have an English site, but I found the Japanese site to have a [...]
29 October 2009, Thursday Today we left Hakone. But not before going through the entire route we did yesterday. Milking the free pass for what it’s worth. I don’t like school children. Especially more so after we ran into hordes of them in Nikko. And Hakone. There wasn’t a leg of our journey where they [...]
28th October, Wednesday Feels like a Thursday as I’m writing this. Writing this from my room in Hakone. We are staying in B&B Pension for the night and both of us have our own rooms. Quite a cosy little place, despite the fact that we had to walk uphill with our bags for a heartwrenching [...]