Fi in the Park

Tenno-ji, Osaka

September 14th 2005
After a real busy 2 weeks we came to Osaka to do pretty much nothing, just lounge about and catch up on some further trip planning, we go to Korea and China in the next fortnight and don't have a scooby as to where we're going. Osaka is a big city, nowhere near as big as Tokyo but far bigger than anything else that Japan has to offer. It's a port city and home to the biggest selection of fish ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more

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Andrew

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Fiona and I started this blog in September 2004 when we decided to take a break from our jobs to go tour some of the world with a bag on our back and some money in our pockets. We had an incredible time, seeing some beautiful places and meetings some nice people along the way, we started in San Francisco and our last destination was Bangkok, in between we visited Hawaii, New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam and Laos. We were armed with a 1.2 megapixel camera at the time, no mobiles, no WiFi, just good old fashioned books and the occasional internet cafe. The trip w... full info

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