Day: September 3, 2018

INDONESIA: Surakarta – Rumah Turi Hotel

INDONESIA: Surakarta – Rumah Turi Hotel

Review as entered in TripAdvisor: My regret in staying in this hotel was that we were so pressed for time, I didn’t get to spend many hours to enjoy our stay here. We only spent scant hours to check-in, sleep and eat breakfast. But I definitely would like to come back and stay here whilst […]

JAPAN: Jyōmyōin Temple – “One can never have too many Jizos”

JAPAN: Jyōmyōin Temple – “One can never have too many Jizos”

Famous tourist attractions are understandably in a tourist’s bucket list but I do try including off-the-beaten track destinations in my travel itinerary. For this stay in Tokyo, I opted for seeing more of YANESEN – this is an acronym for YAnaka, NEzu, and SENdagi.  These belong to a short list of areas in Tokyo that was spared […]