Tokyo 2019: Kaminarimon Gate
It was early evening when I arrived at Narita Airport in Japan and by the time I got to my accommodations in Tokyo it was…
It was early evening when I arrived at Narita Airport in Japan and by the time I got to my accommodations in Tokyo it was…
Today is the start of what will be a long series of posts chronicling my trip to Japan and Korea last year. Let’s get started.…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2019: Flying from America to Japan
Today I’m kicking off a new series of travel posts related to last year’s journey across Japan and Korea with the first photo I took…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2019: The first photo from Japan
Hi all, Two days ago I flew from Japan back to America, thus ending my two and a half month trip overseas. Overall it was…
While I was staying in Hiroshima I did a day trip out to Himeji to check out the city’s castle. It would have been better…
In the northern part of Nara Park is Todaiji Temple, which was originally built in 752 to be the head of all provincial Buddhist temples…
Not far from both Osaka and Kyoto is the town of Nara, which used to be Japan’s capital before the capital was moved to Kyoto.…
One of the days I was in Osaka a typhoon swept through town delivering very heavy rain at several points. A wet day like that…
Before doing a day trip out to Nara I spent part of a morning at Osaka Castle. When the castle was first built in the…
On my first night in Osaka I walked down to the Dotonbori region of the city. Dotonbori is a very popular part of Osaka that’s…