Japan

Tokyo is the capital city of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over 14 million residents.  The greater Tokyo area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world with 40.8 million residents.  Read more →

Riding the bullet train in Japan was on our wish list of things to do.  Using The Man in Seat 61 website we researched Japan trains and purchased our tickets one month in advance, the maximum allowed, on the Shinkansen high speed train from Hiroshima to Tokyo.  Read more →

Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in history and was arguably the most devastating historic event in modern history.  Why did the USA drop an atomic bomb here and one in Nagasaki?  Read more →