2013   Hi Everyone, We are heading home after 4wks of travel, the last 19 days in Japan (my 1 st  time there, JC has overnited before) after a week back in Malaysia. We flew into Osaka, from which we also day-tripped to the nearby  ancient capital of Nara (with its many temples from the 7 th  and 8 th  centuries) and Hiroshima (~330km but only 90min going by rapid “Shinkansen” train, max speed 320km/h- jumped on the wrong one returning so it took 3hrs) with its impressive mus