Paul's Pictures Posts

Our last park for the trip was Fuji-Q Highland. It’s an amusement park at a resort (so is Nagashima Spa Land, but the Spa Land…

After Godzilla we traveled up to Nagoya and stayed there so we could zip over to Nagashima Spa Land. (I had leveraged a travel planner,…

Ted and I split from the girls in Kyoto and headed back to the west coast to visit the Godzilla Intercept Operation Awaji. This was…

After Osaka we traveled over to Kyoto. On the way we stopped at a Matcha (tea) mecca in Uji. While there we hiked around a…

Osaka’s major draw was the 2025 World Expo. However, once we got there we realized the complaints that a lot of others have voiced. My…

We flew back into Tokyo and met up with Grace and Ted along with a friend of ours, Lynette, who traveled with us and who…

After Osaka we caught a plane to Okinawa. My concept of Okinawa was idyllic beach community. Nope, we landed in a major city. After dropping…

Being back in a major metropolitan area with readily available public transit was REALLY nice. The Osaka castle was walking distance from our hotel so…

Fuji was wonderful, but it was time to move on, so we headed for the eastern coast – the Izu Peninsula. We booked a bus…

Our second destination was Fuji Five Lakes. However, going from the flower park over to the Mt. Fuji area is not straight forward when you…

This was the first destination with Anna after I picked her up from Temple University’s Japan campus. It’s a couple of hours outside of Tokyo…