I woke up a hour earlier, but it’s OK, I spent a lot of time just checking my phone anyways. This is my first sleep with phone in almost 2 weeks…
水 April 29, 2026: Japan 1: Arrival
I thought I would sleep like 6-7 hours on the plane, but I woke up a hour later. I listened to audiobook again, got sleepy again and fell asleep, and woke up 2 hours later again. Overall slept probabl…
木 April 30, 2026: Japan 2: Akihabara
Woke up feeling literally hangover. Apparently, I ended up sleeping 12 hours. Still, I felt so tired. Took us almost 2 hours to get up and leave…
金 May 1, 2026: Japan 3: Meiji Jingu, Shibuya, Yakiniku
We thought that we’d get up early and immediately today, but instead we had one of the worst nights of sleep ever. Seems that last night was a free pass due to the sleep deprivation. Today was the rea…
土 May 2, 2026: Japan 4: Emperor palace, Ueno park, Ginza, Skytree
I think I slept 8 hours today. Still felt tired at morning…
日 May 3, 2026: Japan 5: Sakurazaka, rest
Today is a bit of a chill day. Woke up, tired as always. Spent the morning writing the diary and finishing going through the photos. …
月 May 4, 2026: Japan 6: Reitaisai, Izakaya
Today we got up earlier than usual. We went to the Touhou convention - Reitaisai. …
火 May 5, 2026: Japan 7: Hamarikyu Gardens, TV tower, teamLab
I don’t think I had a single morning when I felt rested so far. Every time it’s quite difficult to get up and get going…
水 May 6, 2026: Japan 8: Tokyo -> Hakone
Today we woke up early and started getting ready…
木 May 7, 2026: Japan 9: Mt. Kintoki
For some reason I woke up like 6 times during the sleep. No idea why…
金 May 8, 2026: Japan 10: Hakone -> Kyoto, Shinkansen
Woke up. Tired. This is a reoccuring theme at this point. I think what I’ll regret the most about this trip is the fact that we didn’t properly plan out the rest days…
土 May 9, 2026: Japan 11: Kiyomizu, Pontocho alley
We woke up in complete darkness. Our hotel room has a window that just points to the other wall, so there’s pretty much no view. We closed it for the night, which is why this happened…
日 May 10, 2026: Japan 12: Rurikoin Temple, Kyoto -> Osaka
Already time to check out from the hotel, huh. So little time in Kyoto, regrettably. Thankfully, hotel staff allowed us to keep our suitcases for a few hours while we visited one more thing before set…
月 May 11, 2026: Japan 13: Rest day
It’s finally time to rest. We finally didn’t have any activities planned at all for today. I pretty much bedrotted for the entire day…
火 May 12, 2026: Japan 14: Namba, Dotonbori, Unagi
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水 May 13, 2026: Japan 15: Denden town, Osaka Aquarium
Today we went to the Denden Town. It was definitely called after me…
木 May 14, 2026: Japan 16: Nara Park
It was a slow morning. I went through the photos and wrote the diary. We had to go and wash our clothes, so we went to the coin laundry…
金 May 15, 2026: Japan 17: Kobe, beef, beach
Today we had a Kobe day trip planned. We got a reservation to a fancy Kobe beef restaurant at 14:00, and so we went off to Kobe at around 10:30…
土 May 16, 2026: Japan 18: Umeda, Gachapons, Net cafe, Don Quijote
Today we’ve decided to check out Umeda. Mostly because I saw a place that has 2000 gachapons…
日 May 17, 2026: Japan 19: Nipponbashi Cosplay Festival
Welp, this is our last full day. Today we planned to just shop in Denden town and try to find fumos…
月 May 18, 2026: Japan 20: The End
And now it’s coming to an end… My flight is from Nagoya, so I’ve looked into the ways of getting there from Osaka. My 2 options were either to take a shinkansen, or take Kintetsu line there. I’ve de…
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