All, Got to spend the last two days here in Tokyo. Believe it or not, Tokyo is the largest city in the world, with a metropolitan population of approximately 37 million people. Rank | City / Metro Area | Country | Approx. Population 1 | Tokyo | Japan | ~37 million 2 |...

Mt. Fuji is the highest and most revered mountain in Japan.  Today was our day to visit it, but since the weather was totally cloudy we did get to go on it, but never got to see it hahahahaha.  So here are some pics we screenshot from websites and the local museum. It...

The “divine wind” story is one of the most famous legends in Japanese history — and it’s where the word kamikaze comes from. In the late 1200s, the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan tried twice to invade Japan after conquering huge parts of Asia, including China and Korea....

All, Arrived in Osaka. Again, a band was there to greet us. I think that is so cool. Osaka is Japan’s third-largest city, but once again, it feels calm, quiet, clean, and easy to get around. One side note: in a lot of countries (including many U.S. cities), finding a...

All, Hiroshima is, of course, the site of the first atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945. The bomb, which detonated above the ground (I did not know that), leveled much of the city, with well over 100,000 deaths from the blast, heat, and radiation. Today's nuclear...

Our next stop in Japan was a seaside resort called Beppu.  It is not a big city, more a getaway from the city, famous for the hot springs that come from the volcanic activity beneath it. There are hundreds of places to sit (naked hahahaha) in these hot springs that...

All, Our first stops in Japan, on the southern island of Kyushu (one of Japan’s four main islands), were Nagasaki and Kagoshima. Nagasaki is most famous, of course, for being the site of the second atomic bomb dropped by the United States to end the war against Japan,...

All, Not that it really matters, but for some reason, it felt pretty cool being in Taiwan (Republic of China) the very same day President Trump was meeting in Beijing (People’s Republic of China) and largely discussing the issue of Taiwan. Hopefully, that all works...

Here is our cruise ship. Our cabin is the one with the window 2nd from the back. We expected something a bit more luxurious, but such is life, I suppose. Going to explore Hong Kong for the day.  This is an overview. Big container ports. 20 million containers a year...