Scenery of Mt. Aso, Kumamoto
Mt. Aso in Kumamoto is an active volcano. When I actually went, the air was still full of smoke and the smell of sulfur. The volcano itself was fascinating, but the scenery around it is gorgeous and there̵…
Mt. Aso in Kumamoto is an active volcano. When I actually went, the air was still full of smoke and the smell of sulfur. The volcano itself was fascinating, but the scenery around it is gorgeous and there̵…
In the morning I got up and, on the way to Mt. Aso, stopped by Kumamoto Castle for just a little while. I’d seen how imposing it was the day before, so I couldn’t just drive past. Still, if I took …
You can’t come to Kumamoto and not try horse sashimi. I went into Suganoya, which has a good reputation around here and sits right in the middle of the downtown area, but they said there were no seats, s…
I drove hard down the Nagasaki expressway toward Kumamoto, but maybe because it was Golden Week, there were a few kilometers of traffic jams along the way. I ended up more than an hour behind schedule, and sin…
Sightseeing comes after lunch, as the saying goes, so now that I’ve eaten, I wander around the streets of Nagasaki. I was a little moved when I saw Christmas on July 24th Avenue, the film starring Miki N…
One of the things Nagasaki is famous for, though it isn’t really all that special, is Nagasaki champon. Apparently if you look hard enough there are good champon shops out there somewhere, but I didnR…
From Sasebo I set off for the outskirts of Nagasaki, where my room was. It was Golden Week, so I couldn’t get anything in Nagasaki proper and booked a capsule hotel in a nearby town instead. It was my fi…
The garden at the back of Huis Ten Bosch There were so many couples walking hand in hand through the flower fields. Damn.. Flower beds Lots of kids too. If it weren’t for the discount ticket after 5 …
Right after eating a Sasebo burger I was about to head straight to Nagasaki, when I spotted a sign for Huis Ten Bosch along the way. Places like this are usually for couples and families, so as a single guy I …
For the May Golden Week holidays I did a loop around Kyushu. I’d originally meant to go abroad, but work was so busy that I switched to a domestic trip instead. The first stop was Sasebo, a city known fo…
Having come all the way to Tottori, I couldn’t just leave without eating somewhere good. I asked someone who used to live around here if they knew any good places, and off we went. The place we ended up…
Honestly, the sand sculptures themselves were just so-so. I got tired after looking around for a while and was taking a break in the area with the food stalls and souvenir shops, when all of a sudden a troupe …