I am just back from my Japan trip. I spent 15 days in country and I visited Tokyo, Mt Fuji (and it was visible), Kyoto, Osaka, Nara and Hiroshima.
I booked flights for this trip in March and it has been a dream of mine to go to Japan ever since a friend of mine went for the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
I had high expectations going into this trip and I had a lot planned. When I tell you this trip exceeded all my high expectations it is an understatement. My experience in Japan went perfectly. Nearly too perfect now I can’t see anything beating the 2 weeks I spent there.
I am from Ireland so we don’t have any extremely large cities. I am well travelled and I’ve been all over Europe, Dubai and America so I have experienced big cities. Tokyo just blew all other big cities out of the water. Tokyo was my favourite part of the trip. The public transport was amazing. The food top notch. The buzz of the city honestly gave me a new lease on life.
One day a few months ago my work laptop set the background to Mount Fuji. I made it a goal of mine to get to see Mount Fuji from that exact location and I fulfilled that goal. It nearly brought me to tears to be honest.
Kyoto was a breath of fresh air compared to the mega city that is Tokyo. The temples and nature you could see around that city was unbelievable.
Ōsaka had such a cool unique vibe to it. So much to do there and I used it as a hub to travel to Nara (I took a bite in the ass from a deer which was hilarious) and Hiroshima (I am a big history nerd so when I got a chance to see that city I couldn’t turn it down).
The shopping was amazing and I must’ve bought every souvenir possible.
I returned to work today and while it was depressing being back, I feel so fulfilled that I managed to pull off the trip of a lifetime.
How does one go on after experiencing everything I experienced.
by Sky_Walker98