40 Things You Must Get for Your Trip to Japan (+3 to Avoid!) By Skywing Knights // January 30, 2024 If you’re going to Japan for the first time, it can be super intimidating! Especially if you don’t know the language and will be there for a week or more. I’m often asked what I…
If you’re traveling to Japan soon, it might pique your interest to know that Japan is a bit more strict when it comes to their prescription medications and what it allows guests of the country to bring in. So today, we’re going through how you can find out if your medication is allowed in Japan.
Traveling to a foreign country, heck, any place you’ve never been to before can be intimidating. It can be even more overwhelming if you don’t know the language or where anything is. So if this is your first time, or even your 10th time going to Japan, be sure to check out these Japan Travel apps and tools that will help you while you’re in “the Land of the Rising Sun”:
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For this trip, I wanted my off the beaten path adventures this time around to include a number of locations related to historic events. One of those locations included the resting places of the 47 Ronin (浪人). Yes, those 47 Ronin. Yes, they were real and their graves are right in downtown Tokyo (東京).
Well the new year just came on over and waltzed right in now, didn’t it? Here’s a bit of what I did in Japan this past December, along with upcoming news about Katsucon 2023!
Sharing a Tokyo adventure with you all today, one that’s both scary and sweet! Appropriate since we’re in October right? (But actually, it’s much more sweet than scary!) And this adventure today takes us right into Harajuku, to the Kawaii Monster Cafe.
Japan has opened up! And Tokyo will forever be one of the most amazing places you can go in your lifetime. But if you find yourself to be in a bit more of an adventurous mood and are desiring to go beyond the bounds of the main Tokyo railways, you might find one of these amazing side trips from this awesome city to be worth your while during your next trip to Japan.
Sooo… who else is recovering from a crazy but super awesome Katsucon 2022? I can tell you right now I’m still playing catch up. It probably doesn’t help that I’ve been staying up late being addicted to playing “Breath of the Wild” recently, but eh, I’ll survive (hopefully; if the Lynels don’t kill me!).