Travel Journal: Osaka, Kyoto & Tokyo 2018
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ต.ค. 2021
- In November 2018, I took a trip with three elementary school friends to celebrate our 40th birthdays. We took about a year to plan this trip as we would be coming together from three different parts of the world. The actual planning of the details didn’t take long, but seeing as we all had different commitments, giving each other ample lead time ensured we could plan our schedules and make all necessary leave arrangements in advance.
After some discussion, we decided on Japan. It was a country all four of us had been to before and wanted to go to again. We also decided to stick to the popular trio of Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo instead of venturing somewhere new. This would be the first time the four of us would be traveling together as a quartet, and we didn’t want to add any unexpected stress to our journey. Thankfully, everyone got on well, with zero dramas and a lot of laughter.
The four of us spent 12 days together, although Razlin and myself arrived Japan the night before due to the vast difference in ticket prices. I compiled a travel journey of our trip starting with our departure from Malaysia, right through the trip and back. Many of the group pictures were courtesy of all of our phone cameras and we really had a good time and can’t wait to travel together again!
I hope you enjoy this leisurely look through my travel diary and feel free to ask me any questions about my journal or the trip. As you can see, I’m no minimalist when it comes to putting together a travel journal and feel the need to shove in as many things as possible!
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I love your use of ordinary items like packaging to make pockets, along with the use of washi to hold photos on a hinge. Your layouts are both simple and extremely thorough without being too busy that you can’t focus on anything. Lovely job!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! Sorry for taking so long to reply, I sometimes forget to check in when I don’t have a video to upload 😅. I try my best not to make things too busy as goodness knows sometimes I feel the need to fill every single inch of a page up.
Really nice structure, texture and format on the layouts! Bravo!
Thank you so much!
I love the set up and the feeling of your journal! I go to japan in a year! I'm saving your video for inspiration when I travel!
Thank you! And have a wonderful trip! I love Japan!
that's a really good idea for pockets!
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed seeing your pages; all of them.
You are most welcome! And thank you for watching through all my pages!
Beautiful pages, love your style. ❤
Thank you! And thank you for coming by 😊
I've started watching travel journal videos as I daydream of doing one for my next trip to japan and this is just exactly how i want mine to look, omg!! I hope you dont mind i screenshot almost every page so i dont forget the things i want to include in my own 🤣 (like i have manhole cover pics from my previous trip but including your feet is so cute omg)
😂 Oh gosh, screenshot away! I do that too when I come across brilliant journaling ideas that I want to incorporate into my own journals, because otherwise I’ll forget! I hope you’ve started on your journal 😄
Great pages, beautiful and tiny handwriting.
Thank you! Ah yes, my handwriting is small and difficult to read (even for me) at the best of times 🤭
Omg I love love love this flip through so much, it's probably one of my faves that i've watched. Journaling goals :D I love your creativity and craftfulness in putting together your journal. It's so lovely!
Thank you so much! And thank you for watching. I hope the video gives you some ideas for your journals too 😄
OMG this journal is so inspiring! Thank you very much for sharing!
You’re most welcome! Thank you for watching!
I have a similar travel journalling style, so this is great inspiration for my trip to Japan next year!
Oh fun! Have fun in Japan!
i love love love seeing your travel journals! hope you can share more soon ♡
Thank you! I should re-record a couple of my previous travel journals for TH-cam one day. For now I am focusing on working on travel journals I haven't put together yet 😅 I will definitely share those when they are ready!
Binge watched all of your travel journal videos and it inspired me to make my own travel journal. I'm still new to journalling.
My apologies for my very late reply 😅 That’s great! The most important thing is to just have fun and not stress yourself out too much. Starting simple is best! All my earlier journals are just writing, and you should see my first ever travel journal I did back in 2002! 🤭
Thank you, it was great as I’m going in November 2023…. Looking forward to the paper and Travellers factory shop if I can find it!
Oh nice! I got to go back to Tokyo in March for a week and I miss it already! If you’re in Tokyo or Kyoto you should definitely go to the Traveler’s Factory store. I’ve not been to the one in Kyoto before, but the store in Nakameguro Tokyo is on my must-visit list every time!
You did amazingly well! Very inspiring ❤
Thank you so much!
I really enjoyed this video! These travel journals are art and your trip to Japan was a great birthday present! Ciao!
Thank you for watching! Yes, it was definitely a great birthday present to celebrate our birthdays!
Lovely travel journals xx
Thank you so much!
Lovely journals! We have similar styles so it was great to see some new ideas for my own journals. Gonna have to try that photo "waterfall"!
Thank you! I'm glad you got some new ideas from my flipthroughs for your journal - I definitely enjoy coming across new ideas to try out too! And that reminds me... I should really do more photo waterfalls! They're great space savers.
really cool...
Thank you for watching!
Hi! Tks for sharing your journal, they are so so well done!! U r also v creative and you draw so well!! Just a question, do you journal immediately or you collect them till you are home? If so, how did u incorporate the stamps? Tks for sharing!
Thank you for watching my travel journal flipthrough! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊. Did I draw anything in these journals? They could be stamps or cut outs or something because my drawing skills are basic at best 😅. I journal when I get home - sometimes several years after my trip because of lack of time. I will take my journals on my trip though and try to guesstimate which spreads the stamps will end up on. This is quite risky though so nowadays I just bring a blank piece of paper, stamp on that, and then just stick it in the journal later.
Really love this!! I'm trying to start my own travel journal too! What type of paper do you print your photos? And do they fade? Thank you!
Thank you! I print my photos on Fuji Crystal Archive Matte photo paper, which shouldn’t fade, but you never know. All sorts of factors can affect it. So far they’re still ok though!
また日本に観光に来てくださいね！
ぜひ！楽しみにしています!
May I ask what you use for printing your photos? And does the boarding pass and receipts last? Do you do something for it to not fade?
Hi! I use photobook.com to print my photos as I haven’t found a small photo printer than can print on matte photo paper just yet. I don’t do anything to the boarding passes. Keeping them not so exposed to sunlight helps slow down fading, but if you are worried about that you can also scan and print out boarding passes, receipts, etc so they last longer.
It's a lot of work, but I go over all the text and boxes on my boarding passes and recipts with a fineliner pen (it takes a steady hand and a lot of patience lol). That way I can keep the original paper and once the thermal ink fades the pen version still keeps the original fonts. It's not perfect, but it keeps the original info! Scanning and printing is fine too, but I like the original paper (especially of boarding passes)
That’s a good tip for those wanting to preserve boarding passes and receipts. I am possibly too lazy to do that though 😅
Really inspired by your travel journal flip-through. All the pictures turn out really great. May I know what photo printer and camera you used? 🤩
I’m glad you found some inspiration in my journal 😊. Camera-wise I use my iPhone and also a Canon EOS-M. My photos are printed via photobook.com as I prefer matte prints to glossy ones and all the small photo printers only work with glossy photo papers.
so beautiful! I really need to make another trip out! For your printed photos, did you use a mini/pocket printer (HP Sprocket etc?), or did you print them from an actual photo printer? I'm impressed by the quality of the photos!
Oh gosh, I thought I replied this but apparently I did not! It must have happened inside my head without me actually typing it out 😅 Most of the pictures in here were printed by Photobook.com on their Fuji Crystal Archive matte paper (one of my favourite photo papers since my film photography days). A few of them were printed on the bf's Canon photo printer because I accidentally left them out, and he printed them on really nice Canon matte photo paper too. I don't remember the printer model but it's a huge one!
I love your travel journals! Do you usually plan your journal first or you just stick everything and see where it ends?
Thank you! Well, I kind of do a bit of both. I’ll somewhat plan them day by day and adjust as needed, but sometimes it’s hard to predict what’s going to happen so I try not to stick things directly in my journal while I’m traveling. What I do try to do is end an insert to coincide with the end of a day, so I will then plan and adjust my pages before that. I hope that made sense 😅
Wow😮😮😮 this is amazing! I'm so addicted to this video.. may I know where in Kyoto did you get the hexagon picture stamps and the fan beside it?
Thank you!
Do you mean the ones at 7:03 of this video? The hexagons are actually part of a packaging of something I bought - I think it was pickles! And the fan was part of a brochure from a Japanese fan shop, both along the main Arashiyama street, at least the shops were there in 2018 and I hope they’re still there now.
Your trip sounds like so much fun ! Just wandering if you journaled on the go or did you do it when you got back home ?
It was a lot of fun! I have a daily journal which I fill up on the go, but the actual travel journal I did when I got home. If I journaled my trip on the go I wouldn't have time to do anything 😅
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Great videos - love the soundtracks. Your style is really beautiful and fun. Would love to know where you get all of your products and embellishments.
Thank you! Let me know if there's something specific you'd like to find out is from where and I'll try and remember where I got it from. Just screenshot it and send me a DM on instagram! Most of them have been accumulated over several years though and sometimes picked up from random shops.
@@nadiahkimie Thank you! That's very kind of you. :)
@@elle-em Most welcome!
I love ur flip through. U gave me an idea how to do mine. Do u also hv process videos?
Thank you so much! I’m glad you got some ideas from my flipthrough. At the moment I only have one process video but it’s for my regular journal layout (th-cam.com/play/PLjxUzQrAF3aB5DLSYEZS0jabbQOzHRB-a.html). I haven’t done one for my travel journals just yet as I tend to do them across several days at different hours and I am fussy when it comes to lighting for recording purposes 😅
This is just so lovely! I am planning a trip soon and had plans to bring my journal along. How did you acquire the business cards of restaurants and cafes though? They add so much character!
Thank you! Oh, if they have business cards, they always put them at the cashier or reception counter, so I just take them from there 😄. It’s a stark contrast to more European restaurants that almost always have no business cards you can take and stick in your journal 🤭
@@nadiahkimie Thank you so much! Yes I don't really see a lot of business cards in Western eateries though! Your videos are simply lovely and provide a lot of inspiration! :D
Very pretty!! I am going in februari for the second time to Tokyo because my son lives there. ( We are Dutch) I love it so much there! Do you print your photo’s while you are traveling? Or later when you are back home? And where do you print it with? I always write in my travelersnotebook while I travel and print the pictures later but sometimes it is more convenient to do while traveling. But it also takes a lot of time because I also write to much too. 🤣
Thank you! And I completely understand with the writing too much bit 😂. I only work on my travel journals once I am home because I am always so busy trying to do everything on my trips that I barely have time to actually rest and journal 😅. I also wait until all my photos are printed before I permanently stick or write anything in because I always take too many photos too 😬. Enjoy your trip to Tokyo! I can’t wait to go back again! I miss it all the time, even though I was there in March last year.
Thank you! I noticed that I have to wriet when I travel, once I am back home, somethings fade away, hahaha. But it does cost me a lot of time and that's why I always end up going to late to bed when I travel. LOL.@@nadiahkimie
What paper do you print your photos? Is it matte? And what about the thickness? I've been using 250gsm and i feel it is too much for stacking like you do and yours looks amazing
Hi! I use Fuji matte crystal archive. I don’t print the photos myself - I use photobook.com since I love that they have this paper option. I’m not sure what gsm it is exactly but it’s like the standard ones that photo developers use for normal photo prints.
16:54 i love what you did here. what do you call this frosted paper? and where did you buy it? thanks
Thank you! Some people call this tracing paper, some people call it vellum (although it technically isn’t). I bought mine online via Shopee but they should also be available in art and office-style stationery shops.
Appreciate it! I’ll look for this on local shops near me. Follow up question, how do you stick this to become an extra page? What kind of tape do you use?
@@airynigagamao8779 No problem! Ah, if you take a look at 6:40, you'll notice that a generous piece of the tracing paper has been stuck onto one page, and then I covered some of it up with photos. This is to make sure that the extra page won't come loose easily. In 17:04 though, I just glued one side of the tracing paper following the middle fold of the page. I use a transparent roller tape glue to stick the tracing paper down. It has to be a really clear roller tape though. Sometimes it's tinted blue or green and that will definitely show through the paper.
Whats the notebook size and the sizes of the photos. I dont hv a photo printer and normally i just go to photo developing shoos but hv to collage them first in a 4x6 size
The notebook is a ‘traveler’s notebook regular size’ - I am not sure of the size exactly. The size of the photos varies, but I also print them on 4x6 and collage them beforehand as I haven’t found a small at-home photo printer that can print on matte photo paper.
@@nadiahkimie Thank you Nadiah ;)
Most welcome! Gosh, I just realised I don’t get comment notifications anymore!
Is this the short trip version or the normal one?
This is a normal version. While I have a few short trip inserts I haven’t used them yet 😀
Are those polaroid photos? @nadiah
Hi! No, they’re not Polaroid. They’re taken with my phone or camera and then printed out on Fuji Crystal Archive matte paper.
Why do receipts have to fade? So annoying.
I know right? How are we going to keep them as forever souvenirs?? 🤷🏻♀️
I love this so much! I just got back from Japan and saved all these little pieces of packaging not k knowing why. This is very inspiring!
Thank you! I hope you’ll be able to use them in your journal. It’s a great way to keep them in your collection without actually keeping the whole entire packaging 😄