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Japan and Korea 2017 Day 12: Tokyo to Seoul, Naengmyeon, Hongdae, a Book Cafe, and Chimaek

Welcome to my travel post about Day 12 of my Japan & Korea 2017 trip! While I absolutely loved telling you all about my adventures in Japan, I have also been quite excited to start telling out about the week we spent in South Korea! And it all starts with this post! Read on to see… Read More Japan and Korea 2017 Day 12: Tokyo to Seoul, Naengmyeon, Hongdae, a Book Cafe, and Chimaek

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Japan and Korea 2017 Days 10 & 11: Goodbyes, a Hawaiian Breakfast, Wandering Through Tokyo, and a Wedding Dinner in Shibuya

Welcome to my travel post about Days 10 and 11 of my Japan & Korea 2017 trip! I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted one of these! I was a little too busy with reading, blogging about books, and dealing with some tough real life stuff, and sadly these travel posts were put on… Read More Japan and Korea 2017 Days 10 & 11: Goodbyes, a Hawaiian Breakfast, Wandering Through Tokyo, and a Wedding Dinner in Shibuya

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Japan and Korea 2017 Day 9: CoCo Curry, Tokyo Imperial Palace, Tokyo Skytree, a Matsuri at the Asakusa Temple, and Tokyo from Above

Welcome to Day 9 of my Japan & Korea 2017 travel series! If you have been following the series since Day 1 (or even since my travel prep series that I published before leaving on this trip last year), you’ll know that this day is the last full day that my parents were in Japan… Read More Japan and Korea 2017 Day 9: CoCo Curry, Tokyo Imperial Palace, Tokyo Skytree, a Matsuri at the Asakusa Temple, and Tokyo from Above

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Japan and Korea 2017 Day 7 (Part 2): Nijo Castle, the Golden Pavilion, and the Geisha District

Welcome to part 2 of Day 7 of my 2017 Japan and South Korea trip! If you read my blog post about Day 7 part 1, you’ll know that we had quite a busy start to our first day in Kyoto (to the point where I had to slice what would normally have been one blog post… Read More Japan and Korea 2017 Day 7 (Part 2): Nijo Castle, the Golden Pavilion, and the Geisha District

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Japan and Korea 2017 Day 7 (Part 1): Japanese Countryside, Fushimi Inari Fail, Cherry Blossom Ice Cream, and the Kiyomizu-dera Temple

This post took quite a while to actually plan, write, and post! The reason for that is … December happened, and I had a lot of catching up to do in my reading and review-writing. Plus there’s also this little thing that I mention in almost all of these posts: writing about Japan is painful.… Read More Japan and Korea 2017 Day 7 (Part 1): Japanese Countryside, Fushimi Inari Fail, Cherry Blossom Ice Cream, and the Kiyomizu-dera Temple

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Japan and Korea 2017 Day 6 (Part 2): Bento Lunch, the Hakone Tozan Line, and a Long Walk Home Through Tokyo

The second half of Day 6 was a little more exciting! As you can tell from the title, we had an amazingly delicious lunch, then made our way from Odawara to Hakone where we had been planning to go and view Mount Fuji. That didn’t work out (and you can read all about it in… Read More Japan and Korea 2017 Day 6 (Part 2): Bento Lunch, the Hakone Tozan Line, and a Long Walk Home Through Tokyo

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Japan and Korea 2017 Day 6 (Part 1): Riding the Shinkansen, Odawara Samurai Museum, Odawara Castle, and Miyukinohama Beach

It’s finally time for another episode of Flavia goes to Japan and South Korea! Just kidding. Unless you think of these as episodes. Which is fine. Haha. Anyway, as you can probably tell from the other posts I’ve made about this trip, we made sure to stay busy every single day! Because Day 6 was… Read More Japan and Korea 2017 Day 6 (Part 1): Riding the Shinkansen, Odawara Samurai Museum, Odawara Castle, and Miyukinohama Beach