The Gold Dust Inn in Arawa is the second hotel, bar, restaurant and hotel of note in Bougainville’s main city of Arawa. As such this meant that we stayed here two nights. This was part of our recent Bougainville Tour, which followed on from our tour to the Mount Hagen festival with my travel agency…
Located three or so hours from Tokyo you will find Kurobe Gorge in Toyama Prefecture, one of the most picturesque getaways in all of northern Japan. Here you will find not just Onsen’s, gorges, and a legendarily scene railway, but also a traditional part of Japan that time seems to have forgotten. How to get…
One of the true highlights of the Extremes of Japan Tour was the food, with the culinary element as important as the “weird”, and this is what led us to Shinjuku Takana perhaps the most saught after dessert in Tokyo. This was done at the start of the trip, and just after we had been…
Asking a question like is Japan oppressive clearly means I am coming at this subject with an agenda, with the answer being that yes I feel that it is. Yet this is not something I previously thought, with it being my first trip here that led me to this conclusion. So, what exactly makes Japan…
August in Japan is hot, sticky, and brimming with a sense of history that seeps into every corner of the country. This time, my journey took me to a place that I’d been itching to explore for years—Battleship Island, known locally as Gunkanjima, off the coast of Nagasaki. The allure of this eerie, abandoned island…
After having perhaps the best meal of my life I was keen for my Hiroshima experience to continue, which is what brought me to Flat Sake Bar, seemingly an institution within the city. And me and my group were not to be disappointed, with the place not only having great service and ambiance, but also…
