The Okinawa Adventure Begins Next Week!
With the Korean part of my 2019 trip over we now move into the next part of my journey, which took me to the Japanese…
With the Korean part of my 2019 trip over we now move into the next part of my journey, which took me to the Japanese…
Three years ago today my first trip across Japan and Korea began. For six weeks I wandered all across both nations, spending four and a…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2017 Began Three Years Ago Today!
One year ago today I got on a flight bound for Tokyo and began the journey that I’ve been writing about for the past several…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2019 Began One Year Ago Today!
While I was traveling around Japan and Korea last year I left some reviews of various places I visited on Google Maps. I tried to…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2019: Adding reviews to Google Maps
From Moerenuma Park I took a bus back to central Sapporo to grab my backpack and head for the airport. On my way to Sapporo…
Continue reading → Sapporo 2019: Leaving Sapporo (and Japan)
One of the strangest things about Japan (at least for me) is that you can buy individually wrapped bananas in some convenience stores. I’m not…
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On my first trip to Japan and Korea back in 2017 I had noticed all the vending machines with cans of Boss Coffee but never…
I had a bit of time in the morning before I departed Sapporo and I decided I’d take a bus out to Moerenuma Park at…
Every year in September there’s a food festival held in Sapporo called Autumn Fest. During the festival Odori Park is filled with vendors selling food…
Having returned to Wakkanai, I found my rental car in the ferry terminal parking lot and started the long drive down to Sapporo. My car’s…