Having come down from Owakudani, I next caught a bus that took me a few minutes down the road to the Sengokuhara Pampas Grass Field.…
Continue reading → Hakone 2019: Sengokuhara Pampas Grass Field (仙石原すすき草原)
Continuing my exploration of Ogimachi, I walked some more through the parts of the village with the most gassho-zukuri farmhouses. Everything was still wet from…
Continue reading → Shirakawago 2019: Ogimachi Village (荻町) Pt 2
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…
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…
When I finished exploring the area around the Higashi Chaya District I started on my way towards the central part of Kanazawa. As I was…
Continue reading → Kanazawa 2019: Autumn colors along the Asano River
From nearby the Shikoku Mura parking lot I took a bus up to the top of Mt Yashima. The top of the mountain has a…
When my time in Matsuyama came to an end I traveled next to the city of Takamatsu in the northeastern corner of Shikoku. I would…
While I was in the Okayama region I traveled about 10 minutes north of the city to take a long bicycle ride across the Kibi…
Continue reading → Okayama 2019: Bicycling the Kibi Plain, part 1
Okayama’s two largest attractions are conveniently right by each other so once I had left Okayama Castle I would only need to walk a short…
Today may be April Fool’s Day but this post is no prank. Being the first day of the month, I’ve updated this website’s header image…
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