Highlights

The Making of Harry Potter, Warner Brothers, Tokyo

This was so much fun and a highlight of my trip! I love a bit of magic, and this was so cool to experience. There were life size replicas of sets like the Ministry of Magic, Hogwarts express, and interactive wand experiences too! I saw myself on the wall of moving portraits at Hogwarts – that was pretty cool. I’m a nerd for the interactive stuff. I tried to recruit Adam to come do the moving portrait and Quidditch experience with me – but it was a no from him ;D

I have so many photos from this experience, but its better to go experience it with your own eyes : )

I would plan to be here for 4 to 6 hours, but it really depends on how quickly or slowly you progress, and whether you stop for lunch. There’s eating places about half way through the experience.

Tour to see Mt Fuji

On the day we went to see a view of Mt Fuji we found ourselves in the middle of a random one-day snow storm in what was meant to be Cherry Blossom season.

Although it was a shame we couldn’t see it from where was meant to be an epic vantage point, we had a fun time playing in the snow! It ended up being such a beautiful day.

On the way back we stopped at a shopping centre (it was part of the tour). By this time, the sun had come back up, and we got to see Mt Fuji from there!

Matcha

If you like matcha then you have to go to Uji in Kyoto – the home of matcha. You’ll find matcha everything here -even matcha flavoured udon!

Finding good matcha in Japan overall was not too difficult here as you’d expect. I did enjoy the matcha at The Matcha Tokyo.

Team Labs!

This exhibition was cool! – we spent half a day here and still don’t think we saw everything. There’s a few team labs exhibitions around in Japan.
We went to one in Tokyo.

Temples and parks in Kyoto

So many temples and beautiful parks to explore

Niseko, Hokkaido

My favourite place to visit in Japan. I went here in 2018 with my family and it was beyond beautiful. We had the best food here (honestly, every place we ate was incredible here). My brother and I tried skiing for the first here too. That was memorable, to say the least! The snow in Japan is something else. It made falling on it pleasant : D
I’ll be back Niseko, you beauty!

The view from Tokyo Skytree

An incredible 360 degree view of Tokyo!

Food

Okay, so I didn’t note down any recs, my bad (I forgot I had a travel blog to update : S). Adam, can we go again soon pls?

Nara Park

Such a beautiful park! I loved it here.
I wish we’d gotten some snacks and found a spot to sit and stay a while longer. That would be my recommendation!

and here’s some snaps of us exploring Tokyo!

More Japan recs to come