Nikko 2019: Shinkyo Bridge at Night
As you might expect, there’s not much to do in Nikko at night other than get a meal at one of the restaurants in town.…
As you might expect, there’s not much to do in Nikko at night other than get a meal at one of the restaurants in town.…
It takes a few minutes to walk down the road from Ryuzu Falls to the north shore of Lake Chuzenji and thankfully the rain was…
Continue reading → Lake Chuzenji 2019: Walking the North Shore
The rain steadily intensified as the bus moved west along Lake Chuzenji’s north shore and at the Ryuzu Waterfall stop I got off and walked…
Continue reading → Lake Chuzenji 2019: Ryuzu Waterfall (竜頭ノ滝)
Continuing on from the British and Italian Embassy Villas, I walked further south along Lake Chuzenji’s eastern shore. I had grand aspirations that day to…
A little further south from Chuzenji Temple are the former villas of the British and Italian ambassadors to Japan. During the Meiji Restoration era several…
Continue reading → Lake Chuzenji 2019: British and Italian Embassy Villas
With thick fog obscuring Kegon Waterfall, I returned to Chuzenjiko Onsen and then started going south along the east side of the lake. Though the…
The next morning it was a wet, foggy day in Nikko. A storm was passing through the mountains and although it wasn’t going to be…
I arrived in the mountain town of Nikko late in the day after first taking a shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo Station to the city…
After spending four days in and around Tokyo, I began the next leg of my journey across Japan and Korea. This part of the trip…
Continue reading → Japan Korea 2019: The Journey North Begins!
It was about 4:30pm when I left Hasedera Temple in Kamakura and I wanted to try to get to the nearby island of Enoshima before…
Continue reading → Enoshima 2019: A quick visit to the island