Japan

Traveling's Tiring (In a Good Way)

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10 Oct 2016 • 3 min read

Oh hello there! Have you met my friends the giant scary samurai birds?

At night I usually can't be bothered to write up a blog post. I feel bad because I want to share all the wonderful things we get to see and do each day but after a full day of touristing (and here in Japan all your senses are constantly on full alert because there's so much you don't understand or that's new) and chasing after the little paws means that after they finally fall into bed at night we're usually not far behind. Except of course then there's work to be done or travels to plan or blog posts to write... You get the gist.

Long story short, this won't be a very long post because I'm tired (thanks again for the sunrise wake up call BabyPaw). :)

In case you missed it, there's a big volcano behind us.

Crossing yet another fairy bridge. (The best way to get SmallPaw excited about any walk outside is to look for fairies. It also means everyone needs to be very, very quiet. Her idea, not ours. But we happily encourage it...)

And just in case you didn't see it before, there's that volcano again.

Did you see the volcano? Wait, there's a volcano here? What??

I need a one-way to Tokyo, please. Can I get some help here?

Ah, I love the smell of adoration in the morning. (I'm not kidding, when we walk down the street he sticks out his hand at random people for high-fives. LOOK AT ME, I AM CUTE!)

It's all true what they tell you about the price of fruit in Japan. 2 melons for 40 Euros. TWO MELONS!

The famous star, see previous blog post re: poles.

And we're still not nearly caught up with all the good stuff we've done: temples, food, onsens, dress-up, tatami rooms... Will try and get on that in the next few days in Tokyo. We'll be there for 10 days so hopefully some time for relaxing and recharging. And lots of shopping. (The entire family needs new shoes. Hello Onitsuka Tiger!)