Japan again - Kyoto 2024
We went to Japan again! Seven years later to the day, I returned to Japan in hopes of catching the peak of cherry blossom season. Spoiler alert: it didn't go quite as planned--but we still had a great trip. My brother-in-law and his family had never been to Japan before, and thus we planned a trip around my niece and nephew's spring break this year. Coincidentally, this was exactly 7 years after our 2017 trip in mid March. And coincidentally, my sister and her boyfriend had also booked a trip to Japan at the exact same time (completely independently from us). 7 years ago, we weren't able to catch any of the cherry blossoms except on the very last day in Osaka, one of my biggest regrets. This year, our trip was scheduled to coincide with the peak blooms, and so I was obsessed with making sure we saw all the cherry blossoms. We flew into NRT (which is actually the further airport from the city center of Tokyo) and took the Narita Express, a high speed train into the city cen...
