japan with kids

Visiting monkeys with kids in Japan at arashiyama on a family trip to Singapore and Japan

Visiting Monkeys in Arashiyama Japan

October 23, 2013

I’d like to think I had a calm conversation with the hubby about this one, a casual “hey did you know you can see monkeys in the snow in Japan?” But when I saw some National Geographic Pictures of the Nagano snow monkeys while figuring out our Japan trip I probably brought this on with […]

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Cup Noodles Museum and the Hikawamaru (Yokohama, Japan)

October 9, 2013

Yokohama is a really neat city.  It feels like a big city and business center, but there were so many beautiful areas to walk and see things that it felt really peaceful too.  We went there specifically to see the Hikawamaru, a ship that brought my mom, my aunt and my grandmother to Canada years […]

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Japan pre-reading (How I do my trip research for Japan Family Travel)

September 20, 2013

In what seems like just a handful of sleeps we’ll be heading off to Japan and hopefully by the time we leave, we’ll be totally prepared.  We’ve made it a habit now on trips to make sure we all read about where we’re going ahead of time.  Of course we get the basics like Lonely […]

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