Our short trip to Seoul was an impulsive decision rather than our usual carefully planned trips. So instead of planning to visit here and there, we were very relax on our itinerary and chose most highlighted places in Seoul: palaces, traditional village and experience taste of Korea. For us one and half days was good enough …
Mima Isono
Welcome to TiptoeingWorld, a blog by Mima Isono, hyperactive mom with restless feet and wandering mind living in Tokyo, Japan.
Visiting traditional village in Seoul was one of our must do things while in Seoul. We did not manage to go to the most famous village (Bukchon) luckily we were managed to see Namsangol Hanok village. It was very quite cold morning when we arrived at the village. It seemed that people preferred Bukchon village …
Seoul, the world third largest metropolitan city is a house of historical palaces, home to over half of South Korea population and where K-Pop is born. Seoul is also a home to delicious and healthy food. From street vendors to expensive restaurants are serving mouth watering food that you can get enough of. When in …
Otaru is only 40-minute away by train from Sapporo (it might be faster if it wasn’t heavy snow). Otaru Canal is one of the most famous tourists attraction in Hokkaido. Once we arrived we easily understood why the canal attracting many visitors. With snow carpet by its sides, Victorian style street lamps and mountain view …
I’ve always wanted to visit Hokkaido since moving to Japan. From one reason to another our plan to visit Hokkaido always on hold. Until it finally reached to the winter festival. The winter festival is one of many reasons to visit Sapporo, Hokkaido’s popular city. Snow festival is the most famous event in Hokkaido where …
Japanese macaques live mostly in northern part of Japan where temperature is below freezing in winter. These macaques are known as snow monkeys. It’s often featured as one of Japan tourist attractions in winter. Jigokudani snow monkey Valley is one’s of Japan unique attraction from December to early March. By location, Nagano is not far …