Asia includes a lot of diverse countries, from parts of Russia and Turkey, to India, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, and many more. I’ll probably get to see only a small subset of them in my life. This category page links to all of the posts from all of the Asian countries I visited after I started this travel journal. Entries on visits to cities and towns in Asia appear under a category page for their respective Asian country.
(I visited only one country in Asia before starting this journal, Japan. I loved it and hope to get back, so don’t be surprised if some entries from Japan pop up here at some point.)
The full title of this attraction is “Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens,” but I stripped it down to just “Higashiyama Botanical Gardens” for the title...
Officially called the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, the Nagoya Aquarium is, unsurprisingly, located by the Port of Nagoya and is open to the public,...
I was still traumatized by The Tragic Credit Card Incident of 2025™️ from this morning. Nevertheless, I persisted and visited the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum...
This morning in Hiroshima, I visited Hiroshima Castle and Shukkeien Garden. The latter is a beautiful, peaceful traditional Japanese garden. By law, traditional Japanese gardens...
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