Doug's Photos

After our last stop in Taipei on May 17, we spent a few days at sea before returning to Kobe on the 20th. We then took a 5 hour bullet tra...

All too soon the day of our last stop on the Japan cruise arrived - albeit in Taiwan and not Japan. Although we would return to Kobe Japan...

Ishigaki is actually a prefecture of Okinawa. This was our last Japan stop before returning to Kobe at the end of our cruise. The ship was...

This was our first time on Okinawa. We booked a seven hour Princess excursion, "History & Nature Of Central Okinawa" which ...

On our first cruise in Japan almost 10 years ago we had also stopped at Kobe. 10 years ago we took a ship excursion to a sake factory ...

We had been to Kagoshima on our first Japan cruise almost 10 years ago. Back then we had taken a tour to the island where the volcano is, ...

We'd seen Jeju Island on some of the Korean shows we watched at home and were looking forward to seeing it in person. However, the part...

After a day at sea we reached Nagasaki for the second time. Here is the blog from our April Nagasaki stop . This time we saw some addi...

Not many pictures today as we sailed out of Yokohama on our southern Japan and Taiwan cruise. Our hotel room looked out over the harbor so...

Back to Yokohama... Hard to believe it had only been a week since we'd left Yokohama. We'd been to so many places and seen so mu...

Saying goodbye to Kyoto, we checked out of our hotel and took the train to Osaka. In retrospect I almost wish we had relocated to Osak...

We started the day with an early morning trip to Uji to to see the Byōdō-in temple. We'd tried to do this the previous day on our...

Our third day in Kyoto was another very busy day, but this time on our own. Although, per my Google Fit app, we didn't walk as ma...

Another busy day in Kyoto. We had booked an early morning private tour which started with Kiyomizu-dera, an "Iconic Buddhist temp...

Following a full day and second night in Hiroshima we used our JR passes to take an early 8am bullet train from Hiroshima to Kyoto. If ...

Our first full day on our own! And we certainly took advantage of it. We started the day at Itsukushima Jinja Otorii, literally transl...