We’ve been loving hiking here and we were told Kamakura has some good trails where you could also see their shrines and temples. With the help of google maps and the All Trails app we found this route and gave it a go. We knew we were going to love this hike from the beginning…

I’ve been trying to spread my wings and find some weekday adventures that I can manage solo with the boys while Taylor is at work and it’s turned into me finding gardens in time for some beautiful seasonal blooms. My first adventure was to Azalea Hill in Yokosuka. It was my first time driving to…

Our first trip to Tokyo had two destinations: the Senso-ji Temple, and nearby Tokyo Skytree. The Skytree is the second tallest building in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The Skytree stands at 2080 feet, with the highest observation point at 1480 feet. Luckily for us, the weather was really nice and we…

Even though it is only a short train ride away, it took us a while to visit the largest city in the world (mostly because it was off limits to us until recently). Kyoto was the capital of Japan until 1868 when the emperor moved his seat east to what was then Edo, and renamed…

Springtime in Japan is just perfect. Everyone tells us that the summer can get pretty miserable with the humidity, but right now the temperature is wonderful and everything is blooming. We decided to tackle our first hiking trip by checking out some trails nearby, featuring a temple and buddha statue way up the mountains. We…

We wanted to test out a train ride to the Yokohoma area so we decided to take the boys to Nogeyama Zoo. It is a smaller zoo and is free to enter, but it was the perfect size for our boys and they seemed to enjoy themselves. I think this was actually Jonathan’s first zoo…

Kamakura has a lot of places to visit but we started with a historical Shinto Shrine, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu. It is said that this shrine is the “starting point of the culture of Kamakura, the capital of the samurai,” so it is fitting that we visited here first. After getting off the train we walked through…

We just passed strawberry season in Japan and we were able to go to a nearby farm to pick some strawberries. It was all you can eat strawberries for 30 minutes. At first you think 30 minutes is not a lot of time, but by the time we hit 20 minutes were were stuffed with…

I figured I would do a post about some of the restaurants we have tried so far since that has also provided some fun experiences. First up, SUSHIRO! A fun sushi restaurant near base where they have sushi on a conveyor belt. You just grab what you want and pay based on the plate prices…

We moved into our house in the middle of February! This post is super delayed because we just got internet a week or two ago, but we hope to catch you up with what we’ve been up to! After much anticipation to get into our house it was finally ready for move in. Taylor rented…