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Photos are contributed by Kelly during her Japan trip in winter 2007. Japanese manga.

Wee Lai’s Japanese food encounter and a visit to the famous Daioh Wasabi Farm during her Japan trip in Winter 2007. Japanese cuisine is known for its emphasis on seasonality of food, quality of ingredients and presentation. Nabemono (one pot “steamboat” cooking, 鍋物) – Sukiyaki, with thinly sliced beef and vegetables. … with Japanese side [...]

Wee Lai spent some decent nights in Japanese style hotel bedrooms during her Japan trip in Winter 2007: During my Japan trip, I had a chance to visit 3 very authentic Japanese style hotel bedrooms. Usually, such hotels are accompanied by attractive hot springs (Onsen). It is especially cozy to have a dip during wintertime, [...]

Wee Lai’s traveling experience onboard the Bullet train from Osaka to Kyoto in Japan during winter 2007: Much excitement was aroused prior on board since I was hoping on the legendary bullet train (which is also know as Shinkansen) –which is one of the fastest trains in the world. My tour guide informed us that [...]

My friend is going Japan for a few months to study a short Japanese course for five weeks, and after that he will try to find a part-time job there. He thinks this is a cheap way to travel Japan: the Japanese course that he enrolled cost S$3,100 only, including hostel stay provided by the [...]

There is no need to understand how the train network operates. But if you can, that’s a plus. Most importantly, is knowing how to use it. A correct exit will be a correct entrance to where you wanna be. A train station is like a bus stop; you may need to walk from one bus [...]