Kyoto: Cultural Capital
From Kanazawa I set out for Kyoto, the old capital of Japan and a city that is probably second only to Tokyo in terms of…
From Kanazawa I set out for Kyoto, the old capital of Japan and a city that is probably second only to Tokyo in terms of…
Six years ago today I was in London and nearing the end of my 2012 journey across Europe. I had first arrived in London at…
Continue reading → Wayback Wednesday: July 11, 2018 ~ London, England
It was time for what would be my longest day of transit while in Japan. From Sapporo I took a train to New Chitose Airport…
Six years ago today I was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. In the original planning for my 2012 Europe trip I hadn’t really thought…
Continue reading → Wayback Wednesday: July 4, 2018 ~ Copenhagen, Denmark
Last month I published a posted titled The First Photo from Japan in which I wrote about the first photo that I captured in Japan…
Having gotten the photo I wanted at Onuma Park, I caught the next train going north from Hakodate to Sapporo. Since the shinkansens (bullet trains)…
Six years ago today I was in Berlin, Germany. It was a warm summer day when I arrived in Berlin and it stayed warm the…
Continue reading → Throwback Thursday: June 28, 2018 – Berlin, Germany
Having finished up in Nikko, it was time to resume my journey north. Back at Utsunomiya I boarded a shinkansen (bullet train) that took me…
Six years ago today I was in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, or Czechia as the country is sometimes called. Although Prague was…
Continue reading → Throwback Thursday: June 21, 2018 – Prague, Czech Republic
From Ueno Station in Tokyo I boarded a shinkansen (bullet train) to take me north on my journey across Japan. I had ridden on high-speed…