We arrived in Fukuoka with about eight hours until our flight to Okinawa was leaving. You’ll see that we have several more flights inside Japan booked, again as a result of the extreme costs of sea travel here. Flying to Okinawa and back was a small fraction of the cost of a ferry, so we … More Japan: The South
Seoul We arrived in the port of Incheon after a lengthy trip through the locks (bringing us up to the slightly higher water level of the port) and a very busy shipping channel. We left the ferry in the direction of the nearest metro station, which turned out to be much closer than we thought … More South Korea
Suzhou Suzhou had never really been on our list of places to go in China. In fact, we hadn’t even heard of it aside from a recommendation that we got and then immediately forgot from some Chinese tourists we met in Azerbaijan. Only after looking over our options on how we could get to Shanghai … More China: Suzhou, Beijing, and Qingdao
Sometimes the wrong train will get you to the right place. 