FROM HERE ✩ TO TOKYO
ここから東京まで!

Just a short boat ride to the south of Dubrovnik, there is a small island called Lokrum. It is said that when Richard Lionheart of...

I don’t like being a tourist. I mean, I love to travel and see as much of the world as I possibly can, and since I only make short trips...

It’s every city hopper’s nightmare: you’ve got three days in total, you leave late on the first day and return early on the third. That...

On the morning of the last full day we had in the beautiful, warm state of Florida, I got a tip from an old classmate who has been in the...

Alligators, pelicans and swamplands: not exactly the things I expected to see when we left for Cape Canaveral this morning. Cape...

American grandeur. The perfect façades of a country that has so much to hide. I’ve always wanted to witness it myself, to see if it was...

First off: this might have been the most relaxing day in the entire month I’ve spent in Japan. So what’s up with the title, you might...

Kyōto, Tōkyō, Ōsaka: I've visited them all this week. I've seen Kyōto and Ōsaka twice already, and I'll visit Tōkyō again tomorrow. With...

The sun is shining, I’m in a great mood, my JR Pass is burning in my pocket: today’s a good day to go back to Tokyo! I hadn’t been able...

Japan is said to be a country with four separate seasons. Meaning that the country is supposed to have long, hot summers; red, rainy...

In Holland, you can often hear the saying “Van hier tot Tokio”, which would literally translate into English as “From here to Tokyo”. We...

When I knew I would go to Kyōto, there was only one thing on my list that I really wanted to see. The rest of the day, I would just see...

“Surprise, surprise!”, Hajime-san announced last night. “I’ve got two tickets for the Chunichi Dragons tomorrow! You like baseball,...

Have you ever played the game "Ōkami"? It's one of my personal favourites. It's a Japanese game about the kami [Shinto goddess]...

It looks quite unappetizing, somewhat like vomit. It has no standard recipe, but the base is always made of cabbage. It’s covered in...

Whew – what a day! Night. Day. I don’t know. Both? No idea! Traveling to the other side of the world kind of does that to you, I guess....