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Back on the Tak
B wanted a Japanese haircut. So last night Machiko and Mayumi found a hair salon in Tennoji with a discount voucher and arranged the whole thing for this morning. We packed our bags and checked out of our room, then headed off for Mio Plaza for the haircut. While B was busy having her hair…
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Wakayama with friends
Last year we hosted a Japanese high school student, Miyu, for two weeks and one of her teachers, Machiko, for the second week. They were both the most delightful of guests and we really enjoyed both getting to know them and sharing a bit of Australia. A return visit provided the excuse for this trip…
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Shurikens and spas
Stealth, speed and skill are all words associated with the legendary Japanese ninja. So are turtles, fruit slicing and marketingspeak, but let’s forget about those for the moment. We were at the Ninja Museum of Igaryu watching demonstrations of the ninja skills of sword fighting, shuriken throwing, bamboo slashing, the use of a rope to…
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Fire and rain at Universal Studios Japan
Every trip we do as a family these days seems to involve at least one amusement park. That’s what happens when you have kids I guess. One this trip Universal Studios in Osaka was our designated theme park. When we looked out the window this morning we had second thoughts. Wet and cold again. On…
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Of misplaced jeans and model trains
Who would have guessed that a misplaced shopping bag containing two pairs of jeans would cause so much trouble? We accidentally left the bag at the Mitsubishi Minatomirai Industrial Museum in Yokohama yesterday. Now Yokohama is only a short detour away from the Shinkansen line to Osaka, our destination for the day, so we thought…
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Yokohama – from noodles to rockets
Have you ever looked into a steaming bowl of instant noodles, made by the simple addition of boiling water and a sachet of flavouring, and wondered how it came to be? No, me neither, but today we were about to find out. Gazing out the window at the eighteenth floor of our hotel we could…
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Parramatta prelude
Parramatta is an odd place to begin an international holiday. It is in the opposite direction to the airport from our house. But it so happens that I had a hotel reward that was close to expiring, and with Kita already in a boarding kennel in preparation for our trip to Japan, today was the…