Ryan Tubridy shares holiday snaps from family trip to Japan
The Virgin Radio and Q102 presenter visited Osaka, Hiroshima, Kyoto and Tokyo earlier this summer, describing it as an "unforgettable" holiday.
Ryan recently wrote in his Irish Mail on Sunday column: "Some time ago, I agreed with my daughters that someday in the future, the three of us would visit Japan.
"We have been so curious about the country and its customs, art and people that we had built a great urge between us to go and see it for ourselves.
"Between the jigs and the reels, the timings never worked but that changed a couple of weeks ago when we boarded a plane for Abu Dhabi and then on to Osaka for what turned out to be the trip of a lifetime.
"I won't go into great detail as it was a wonderfully personal experience but I will tell you that it was like being beamed down from a spaceship onto the set of a Wes Anderson film. It's a uniformly beautiful, clean, mannerly, law-abiding place that can surprise you with every corner turned."
Ryan, Ella and Julia visited four cities in Japan and the Dubliner said he became "obsessed" with Japan's bullet train. Ryan, Ella and Julia visited four cities in Japan (Image: Instagram: Ryan Tubridy)
The former Late Late Show host said his daughters encouraged him to taste some traditional Japanese food and diversify his palette.
"We went on to eat at a local restaurant where the girls encouraged me to try the chopsticks, noodles and dumplings, which I did and I'm a changed man!
"Post-dinner merriment found us all in the mood to sample the local national sport that is karaoke, which was an awful lot of fun.
"Between us, we improved the back catalogue of Frank Sinatra, Bonnie Tyler, Bob Dylan, The Pogues and some Japanese icons. It was that kind of evening."
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