Jeonju 2019: Anti-Japanese Signs
While walking around Jeonju I saw quite a few anti-Japanese signs like the one today’s post. As some of you may know, Japan and Korea…
While walking around Jeonju I saw quite a few anti-Japanese signs like the one today’s post. As some of you may know, Japan and Korea…
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 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…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2019: Individually wrapped bananas
I arrived at Asahidake Onsen in the evening and would be staying two nights there so that I’d have a full day at Daisetsuzan National…
Continue reading → Daisetsuzan 2019: Asahidake Visitor Center and Walking Path
After escaping the city traffic of Sapporo I drove for a few hours deep into the interior of Hokkaido. The rain from the dying typhoon…
Though my 2019 trip wasn’t the first time I had driven a car while overseas, it would be my first time driving in Japan. Additionally,…
I woke up the next morning to heavy rain outside the hostel. Back when I was in Nikko I had seen on the weather satellite…
Continue reading → Sapporo 2019: When the typhoon caught up to me
For dinner in Sapporo I went to a restaurant called CoCo Ichibanya. A friend of mine who used to live in East Asia highly recommended…
Continuing my journey north, I took an afternoon train from Hakodate up to Sapporo. Currently the shinkansen line doesn’t extend to Sapporo so the ride…
My favorite fast-food restaurant in Hakodate is a burger chain called Lucky Pierrot. There are 17 Lucky Pierrot restaurants scattered across Hakodate and each of…