Okayama 2019: Bicycling the Kibi Plain, part 1
While I was in the Okayama region I traveled about 10 minutes north of the city to take a long bicycle ride across the Kibi…
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Kurashiki 2019: The Canal Area
The first of my two trips out of Okayama was to the town of Kurashiki, which is about 15 minutes east of Okayama by train.…
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Okayama 2019: Korakuen Garden (後楽園)
Okayama’s two largest attractions are conveniently right by each other so once I had left Okayama Castle I would only need to walk a short…
Okayama 2019: Okayama Castle (岡山城)
After my short stay in Bitchu-Takahashi I came down from the mountains to the city of Okayama in the southeastern part of Chugoku. Okayama is…
Bitchu-Takahashi 2019: Bitchu-Matsuyama Castle (松山城)
In the morning I set out to visit the main thing I had come to Bitchu-Takahashi to see: Matsuyama Castle, which is also known as…
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Bitchu-Takahashi 2019: Raikyuji Temple (頼久寺)
On my arrival day in Bitchu-Takahashi I paid a visit to Raikyuji Temple up in the northern part of town. Raikyuji is a Zen temple…
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Bitchu-Takahashi 2019: Arrival in town
After finishing up at Matsue Castle I departed Matsue in the early afternoon and headed deep into the interior of the Chugoku region of Japan.…
Matsue 2019: Matsue Castle (松江城)
The next morning I returned to Matsue Castle to see it one more time before I left Matsue. I had seen some of the castle…
Matsue 2019: Calpis Soda
While I was staying in Matsue I tried out another Japanese drink that I had never seen before. This one was called Calpis Soda and…
