Japan
€70 for a bunkbed, excluding electricity for charging your phone
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Johan Kruseman
Updated on 29 July 2024
Updated on 29 July 2024
The mountain hut was also different from what I was used to: a massive building with space for 500 people. Breakfast was served between 5:00 and 6:30 am, as is customary in the Himalayas, so that you can start your mountain hikes on time, even though the longest climb there takes no longer than 2 hours. For just 70 euros, you could get a mattress on the floor in a dormitory with 30 others side by side. Charging your iPhone was not included, and you had to pay extra for every half hour of charging.
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Traveled route: Nagoya, Tokio, Mount Fuji, Japanese Alps, Takayama, Kioto, Osaka
× €70 for a bunkbed, excluding electricity for charging your phone
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Climbing Mount Fuji in a record time to catch the bus
After the mountains, I visited Osaka and Kyoto. What took me 10 hours for 250 km in Mongolia, I covered here in 1 hour. And it‘s almost unbelievable that those bullet trains depart every 10 minutes and zoom past at 250 km/h. On my way to Mount Fuji
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