Japan-Korea 2019 Travel Stories Resume Tomorrow!
After a bit of a hiatus I am finally getting back to sharing more photos and stories from my 2019 trip to Japan and Korea.…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2019 Travel Stories Resume Tomorrow!
After a bit of a hiatus I am finally getting back to sharing more photos and stories from my 2019 trip to Japan and Korea.…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2019 Travel Stories Resume Tomorrow!
The first of the two villages that I’d be visiting as part of my day trip from Takayama was Ainokura, in the Gokayama region of…
I got up early the next morning and returned to the Takayama bus station to get on a tour bus that would take me deeper…
Continue reading → Shirakawago/Gokayama 2019: Heading deeper into the mountains
It was late afternoon when I arrived in Takayama but because the town is up in the mountains the days there are a bit shorter…
Most of the time when I was traveling between cities in Japan I would catch a ride on the country’s excellent train network, but when…
It was time to bid farewell to Kanazawa so I grabbed my backpack from my hostel and headed to Kanazawa Station. The Tsuzumi-mon (Drum Gate)…
A bridge over a modern road links Kanazawa Castle to the northwestern corner of the Kenrokuen Garden, meaning you can quickly go from one to…
There’s an old joke among travelers about how the weather always gets better on the day that you’re leaving a particular location, and that was…
Kanazawa is home to the Kenrokuen Garden, one of Japan’s premier landscape gardens, and on certain days in the autumn you can tour the garden…
Continue reading → Kanazawa 2019: Kenrokuen Garden (兼六園) at night
Much of Kanazawa Castle no longer exists but in the southern area of the castle you the old walls are still standing and a small…
Continue reading → Kanazawa 2019: The walls of Kanazawa Castle