After years of discussion I finally convinced Danielle and we will visit Japan this spring. I’ve been here before but for Danielle it will be her very first trip to Asia. I really hope she enjoys “The Land of the Rising Sun” as much as I did during visits in the past.

After checking the usual websites for flights we’ve found an absolute bargain on www.klm.de. We leave in Nürnberg in an Embraer 170 and after a transfer in Paris to an Airbus A380-800 with which we’ll land about 15 hours later at Narita Airport about 80 km from Tokyo.

At this moment we are still figuring out what we want to see during the 11 days we are there. So far we’ve come up with Tōkyō (東京), Mt. Fuji, Kyoto (we hope to enjoy Sakura, if it happens early this year) , the Tokyo SkyTree, Hamarikyu Gardens, Imperial Gardens, Tokyo Fish Market and we want to ride the Shinkansen. Oh and before you think aren’t they visiting the Tokyo Disneyland Resort, yes we will for 3 days! So we’ve a lot to check-out till the departure date!

The way back home will take the same amount of time and with the same planes. We can’t wait till we are there and you’ll enjoy some preparations blog updates till our departure date and off course we’ll try to blog live as we did during the last vacations!