Please turn JavaScript on
header-image

Zipping Around the World

Click on the "Follow" button below and you'll get the latest news from Zipping Around the World via email, mobile or you can read them on your personal news page on this site.

You can unsubscribe anytime you want easily.

You can also choose the topics or keywords that you're interested in, so you receive only what you want.

Zipping Around the World title: Zipping Around the World – Travel Podcast

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.36 / week

Message History

Thanks for listening this week.  For this entire trip to Japan check out episodes 167, 168, 170, 172, 175, 176, 177, and 178.  This podcast finishes our 2025 trip through Japan.  We had a great time and so can you.  It is less expensive than you think, as the dollar to yen exchange rate is very good for US dollars. We used Utsunomiya (Sunshine Hotel) as th...

Read full story

Thanks for listening this week.  For this entire trip to Japan check out episodes 167, 168, 170, 172, 175, 176, and 177.  We traveled from Fukuoka to Kyoto and then on to Utsunomiya in this episode. In Kyoto we went to Fushimi Sake Village for sake and lunch.  Don’t forget there is the Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum nearby as well.  Using our googlemaps we th...

Read full story

Thanks for listening this week.  We traveled from Fukuoka to Nagasaki on a day excursion. We left from Hakata station transferring through Takeo-Onsen station then onto Nagasaki station.  For this entire trip to Japan check out episodes 167, 168, 170, 172, 175, and 176.  We started at the Atomic Bomb Museum, which can’t be missed.  Go check out ground zero...

Read full story

Thanks for listening this week.  When you are in bigger train stations look around / ask around for the bilingual ticket office.  I’m sure other have them, but I have only seen the one in Hakata Station so far.  I enjoyed the Kotani Stand Bar for wonderful Sake and their macaroni salad, and around the corner from them is the Fukuoka Craft Brewery.  A twent...

Read full story

Thanks for listening this week.  Sake Nerd was a great place to enjoy great sake and Japanese bar food.  I did not get to have Shabu-Shabu, but keep listening because in later episodes I will get to have some.  The morning market we went to was Kuromon Ichiba.  Tried the skewered grill eel (Unagi) absolutely delicious.  Then we walked to Shitenno-ji T...

Read full story