Unfortunately our family passed by the stamp station too fast to catch our railway train to the city, and I missed the opportunity to put that in my journal. We first arrived at Nagoya Central Airport and there was a 10th anniversary stamp to celebrate the event. Japanese love their railway and there are also custom train stamps that you can collect when you take their mass transportation. I’m super addicted to stamping, and there are ALOT of stamps available when traveling in Japan.Īt almost every tourist centre, you will find local stamps that features famous sights or signature food of the area.
It makes beautiful background to work on! Sometimes when I find beautiful illustrations, I would use a glue stick or a dot-liner to glue it to the page altogether. This way you can still leave space for some extra writing. This way you can take with you as many color choices as you like without the bulk of each individual roll!Īs for pasting the scraps onto the journal, you can always use pretty washi tape to adhere it to the page. One way to store washi is to roll them onto straws or some sturdy plastic pieces. Every night I will start the scrapbooking by cutting out words or the names of the places I’ve visited out of these brochures, and they make very good headings for the entries in the journal! Japan is big on promoting tourism, so they always have beautiful brochures and informative maps at tourist centers or hotel concierge areas. On my travels, I try to collect as much paper items I see, which includes informative brochures. Because of its less-sticky nature, you can easily tape in some scrap paper, and remove at a later time. Washi tapes can be a helpful tool in keeping paper items in your book securely when you are in a hurry. That includes beautiful brochures, tickets, special name cards, beautiful postcards, maps, and other things you can save and use in your journal. The point of scrapbooking is to collect each and every memorable items that you can find on your trip. Pocket palette watercolor / color markers *Optional.In this travel scrapbook, I will also write down short diary entries, doodle in blank places, and stick in scraps from interesting brochures and tickets to tourist sights. On this family trip during Chinese New Year to Japan, I put together a custom travel journal just for this purpose. Before each trip, I will consolidate all the ‘research homework’ into a small booklet that I can carry and utilise when on the exciting trip. That includes Important information such as transportation and train schedules, and there are always some tips and recommendations from previous travellers that I just have to pencil in my itinerary. Whenever I’m going on a lengthy trip abroad, I always prefer to do some research on the places I’m going to visit. Some other travel journals comes with plastic folders to carry tickets or important receipts, all part of traveling and keeping notes. The famous Midori’s Traveler’s Notebook is perfect for this purpose, as its sturdy cover allows protection for the contents. This is where the travel journal comes in. Sometimes the experience is so powerful, that you want to carry a bit of it back with you in back home. For people who love to travel, seeing the sights and snapping pictures just isn’t enough.