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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Tokyo, Japan by TravelPod blogger Bridgetbomhack. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com It’s All Part of the Japlan “KONICHIWA MY DEAR LOYAL BLOG VIEWERS!!! I’m sorry it has taken so long for me to update you on my wanderings! I am currently in AMERICA!! WOO WOO!! It’s GRRREAT to be home! I just keep walking around singing “Proud to be an American”. Anyways…For my Japan blog I have hired my friend Christie to help out. Japan was a jam-packed 5 days of crazy adventures and Christie is an excellent writer so I have hi-jacked her blog since we were traveling together. This is Part 1 of our Japan trip. Christie George everybody…. Weeks before ever setting foot on Japanese soil, my friends and I set about making our “Japlan,” as we fondly called it. We would typically sit around in Gio and Steven’s room to do this, and everyone would have either a laptop open to Wikitravel or a hostel booking website, or would be flipping through the pages of a Japan guidebook loaned out from the library. This, however, was about as far as our Japlanning ever got, and the night before our arrival in Yokohama we were still pow-wowing about what on earth we would do during our 5 days loose in Japan. The few parts of the Japlan that we did have were Japan Rail passes, one night booked in a hostel in Tokyo, and huge ambitions to see everything we possibly could in those 5 days. So, with that in mind, I packed anything I might need …
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Koyasan, Japan by TravelPod blogger Mchao. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Koya-san: Temple Living with a Nice Price Tag “I got up early and dragged my bag through city blocks of underground tunnels at Osaka Namba station to transfer between the different rail lines (again, OMFG). I’m heading to Koya-san, a Buddhist village/sanctuary founded by a monk named Kubo Daisha, who went to China and brought back Shingon Buddhism to Japan. He then became known as Kukai. Legend has it that two gods sent a black and a white dog as messengers to tell Kukai to found his monatery at Koya-san, which is actually a small mountain between several larger ones in Wakayama prefecture. Like Nara, Koya-san also has a central business area, but Koya-san’s is much smaller than Nara’s and the business is pretty much selling souvenirs and pilgrimage accessories. You can see the word omiyage (souvenir) within a stone’s throw in any given direction. Nankai station in Namba sells a useful combination ticket called the Koyasan Free Sabic (or ‘service’ in English) that covers the entire trip including the train to Gokurabashi, where you catch a cable car up the mountain and then a bus to Koya-san village. The pass comes in two flavors–a cheaper regular ticket for express trains or the more expensive ticket for the Limited Express. The only real difference is there is one transfer at Hashimoto station with the regular ticket. In …
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