Author Archives: Michela

Flying with Etihad Airways – my experience with the company with the worst customer care

To travel often you need to take a plane and it often happens that the [...]

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Jiufen, Spirited Away and red lanterns

Jiufen is a mountain town east of Taipei, developed around a former gold mine. Today [...]

Visit Hakone, the onsen destination near Tokyo

Hakone is one of the most recommended excursions from Tokyo and a popular destination among [...]

Day trip from Tokyo: Kawagoe, the little Edo

Still relatively undiscovered by Western tourists but steeped in the atmosphere of ancient Japan, Kawagoe [...]

Discovering the Iya Valley

The perception of time changes in the Valley of Iya. Everything flows according to the [...]

Overnight in a traditional Japanese house in Ouchijuku

The small single-car train crosses the Japanese countryside, the rice fields, and then is surrounded [...]

Shibu Onsen and the onsen hopping near the Snow Monkey Park

In Japan, there are several onsen towns, but the small Shibu Onsen still retains that [...]