Hands down, the greatest train experience I’ve ever had! In 2022, Japan released renovated older diesel trains, themed them and put them back into the wild throughout Japan. They refer to these as the Joyful trains. This included the High Rail 1375, SL Ginga, SL Gunma, FruiTea Fukashima and others. High Rail 1375, so what’s…
Category: Japan
Mount Hiei, Kyoto, Japan
“I have no idea why Mount Hiei isn’t mentioned more!“ As I visited Kyoto, I searched for nearby mountains to hike and found Mount Hiei was right at the edge of the Kyoto prefecture. Mount Hiei is known as a lower mountain compared to the rest of Japan (especially its alpines), but a regular place…