Down to Yokohama to meet up with our friends and to take the Integra to the shipping docks! Its going to America!

Headed south of Tokyo to Izu Peninsula for Japan’s Golden Week. This time we were able to get out and explore the awesome nature around that area. Lava flow waterfalls and a dormant volcano.

Last fall was to capture the autumn colors around Fuji. This time was for the cherry blossoms. And boy were they blossoming. How many pictures is too many? Everywhere we went was another perfectly picturesque shot.

We took a 3 day weekend to the west side of Japan for a visit to an old hot springs town, called Nozawa Onsen. We did a day of skiing and a day of stamp collecting. The kids had an amazing time.

We took a three day weekend trip across the country to the snowy world heritage village of Shirakawago.

Up to Fukushima Prefecture again for some fun in the snow!

The one and only!

Up to Yamagata Prefecture for a mountain temple, a crater lake (which we couldn’t see), and beautiful fall colors (depending on the elevation). Nonetheless, a cool experience for sure!

Down to Nagoya for the first time since we’ve been living in Japan. Another effect of coronavirus. But better late than never to see Uncle Yuhei!

We drove south of Tokyo to the Peninsula of Izu to visit our friends from Yokohama, which we met in America last year.

We headed up to Mount Haruna in Gunma Prefecture for the cool mountain roads. But we ended up having an even better experience at the hot spring epicenter of Kusatsu!

For the summer holidays, we drove 9 hours down to the southern tip of the main island to a World Heritage site called Kumano Sanzan. It was a fun and interesting 5 days.

Up to see one of the “Three Views of Japan” at Matsushima Bay. Rainy weather all weekend just made it relaxing and cozy hanging out in our airbnb most of the time.

Off to the great white north for the famous Sapporo Snow Festival for a long weekend.

Day trip up North to a snow resort in Fukushima Prefecture!

After a long week of all of us being sick, we finally all got healthy enough to take our vacation to Kyoto! There is so much to see and we only scratched the surface, but it was another great experience.

Her face as we paddle around the mountains is a mood.

Final day with Dom and Alex! We all went to Tokyo with the super help of Yuhei! We went all over the giant city in a short amount of time.