I have decided to try to keep a log over my activities in Japan so that my friends and family can keep track of what is going on in my life. Also it might provide an intresting introduction to Japan and its culture for people who haven't been there. I will try to update once a week and complement the text with pictures taken with my digital camera throughout my intended year-long stay in Japan. 

If you enjoy reading about Japan I recommend the homepages of my friends Hans, who has a diary he wrote when we studied as exchange students in Sapporo 2000, and Petri, who has a great story from one of his hitch-hike travels in Japan (in Swedish) as well as photos from travels in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Japan. See also Petri's new site Kyoto Creative Services where he has put up info and movie-clips from Kyoto.

Travel Log Index
2001

   ProLog

February 27, Korsbacken, Sweden
March 02, On the train to Gothenburg, Sweden
March 05, Gothenburg, Sweden

   From Kagoshima to Tokyo

March 08, Between Sweden & Japan
March 09, From Fukuoka to Kagoshima
March 12, Yunomoto, Kagoshima
March 13, Kashima, Kagoshima
March 14, Kashima, Kagoshima
March 15, From Kagoshima to Fukuoka
March 23, Nakama, Fukuoka
March 24, From Fukuoka to Osaka
March 28, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara
April 01, Tokyo

   Sapporo

April 02, From Tokyo to Sapporo
April 09, Sapporo
April 10, Sapporo
April 25, Sapporo
April 29, Sapporo
May 05, Sapporo
May 12, Sapporo
May 17, Sapporo
May 21, Sapporo
May 29, Sapporo
June 04, Sapporo
June 11, Sapporo
June 14, Sapporo
June 18, Sapporo
June 24, Sapporo
July 02, Sapporo
July 19, Sapporo

   Summer vacation

July 26, Nakama, Fukuoka
August 07, Nakama, Fukuoka
August 09, Miyajima/Hiroshima
August 13, Nakama, Fukuoka
August 19, The Sea of Japan

   Sapporo

August 31, Sapporo
September 13, Sapporo
October 26, Sapporo
December 18, Sapporo

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR PAGE

   Winter vacation

December 24, Nakama, Fukuoka

2002

January 16, Nakama, Fukuoka
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CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR PAGE NEW

 



ProLog
ProLog II
ProLog III



The flight
Day one
Yunomoto & Kashima
8
The Adventurers
9
The Adventurers Part 2
9
All day train trip
Emma
6, 7, 5
Earthquake
Kansai tour
3
Sakura city



Uppe med tuppen!
Getting started
The first class
The first weeks
IFA
Golden Week
School excursion
Emma, summer weather and fever...
Sakura rain
Lilac city
Package from Sweden
YOSAKOI
The TEST
Tokai School Festival
Midsommar
Relax
Happy Birthday Kaku!



Together again!
6, 7*
Yukata, jinbei and fireworks
6
Beauty and the Beast
4
EXPO, jazz and fireworks
6
Ferry to Sapporo



Back to school
The TEST 2
Autumn colours
1
Winter comes
tittut



Merry Christmas
6

tittut

Happy New Year
6



News

February 19, 2007
I don't have any plans to continue writing here. Please visit my new blog and photo page instead.

The Map 
Here is a map where you can see where I have been (during the time covered in this log). The cities where I have spent at least a day are marked with a red dot instead of a black dot as the other cities. Smaller cities or other places of interest that are not marked with a name on the map are marked with a smaller red dot and number next to it. I have left out some smaller places, especially on Kyushu since there isn't much room for markings there. The numbers are also written next to the titles of the logs in which I have written about when I was in that area.

If you want a more detailed look of the locations (or any other location in Japan) I strongly recommend the zoomable JNTO Japan map. You can zoom down close enough to see even the smallest of streets, practically anywhere in Japan!
 1 Biei
 2 Kamakura
 3 Nara
 4 Miyajima island
 5 The Akiyoshi Plateau/Cave
 6 Nakama
 7 Mount Aso (*=The area around and above Aso)
 8 Yunomoto/Kushikino
 9 Kashima-mura

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