From Japan, With Love: A Japanese Local's Diary

It’s our third day traveling in Hiroshima. Today, we checked out of the hotel that we had stayed in for the past two days and moved to another hotel nearby. The next hotel is called ‘Hotel Intergate Hiroshima’.https://www.intergatehotels.jp/hiroshima/en/ Why did we switch hotels? The answer is, actually, there were two hotel chains we wanted to…

Day 2:Since my son and I went to bed early last night, we could wake up early this morning. We headed up to the breakfast area located behind the hotel reception on the 13th floor, and surprisingly, there was only one other person there besides us, who was waiting for the breakfast area to open.…

For this trip, my son and I used a low-cost airline, a.k.a. LCC (Low-Cost Carrier), for the first time. As a result, we had to depart from Narita Airport (Narita City, Chiba Prefecture) instead of Haneda Airport (Ota Ward, Tokyo), which is much closer to my home. It takes us nearly 2 hours by train…

“Kon-ni-chi-wa!”Hello from Japan! I have recently started this blog site, but I had been wondering what I should write first. Though some time has passed since I opened this site, first of all, I have decided to recount my summer trip to Hiroshima (Prefecture), hoping that it might be as a log of my memories.…