A Yokohama trip in August 2023
I was only in Yokohama for a very short while, but I took all sorts of photos. Yokohama Station The weather was really lovely. Anker This brand seems to be doing pretty well in Japan these days. Chinatown T…
I was only in Yokohama for a very short while, but I took all sorts of photos. Yokohama Station The weather was really lovely. Anker This brand seems to be doing pretty well in Japan these days. Chinatown T…
I’m always going back and forth to Japan, so there’s nothing particularly remarkable here.. but I’m leaving it as a record. Boy Scouts heading home after the Jamboree However often I come to…
There are little spots worth a look all over Ganghwa Island. A dolmen It was right in front of the Ganghwa History Museum. A dolmen I took it from a fair distance, but it’s quite big. The Peace Observa…
Cimer is the water park at the Paradise Hotel in Incheon. A place to splash around in the water. Roughly this sort of spot.. It’s such a stylish place that you spot people who look like genuinely succes…
I had heard for ages that there was a cave in Gwangmyeong that makes for a good day out, and on this day I somehow ended up going. On the way It is a cave, so good weather does not really make a difference, b…
These days there is not much of anything to see at the airport. ROYCE’ Liquor and tobacco Restaurants Nothing here really looks worth eating.. Matsumoto Kiyoshi It still had not opened at this point,…
Now that COVID is over, the hanabi is being held regularly again. Yatai (food stalls) There are just too many people, so the plan is to get there early and eat early.. Honestly, if I were on my own I would bu…
In Japan, every neighbourhood still keeps up the custom of the matsuri. Is it some scheme to boost tourism through festivals? No, nothing like that — they do it simply because it is tradition. In a place like …
Just putting up a few photos I snapped without much thought. The Pacific The horizon Yogibo Yogibo looked pretty good, so I bought one, but the smell was awful… I really did not see that coming……
The town centre of Toyohashi turned out to have a surprisingly solid food scene. When I went there was an event on called Hashigo Night, where you buy a coupon and get to eat and drink on the cheap. As a resul…
I doubt the name Toyohashi rings a bell for anyone… it sits at the far edge of Aichi Prefecture, close to Shizuoka, and it was the setting for the Japanese drama “Minna! Esper Dayo!” (Everyon…
There is an area of Hamamatsu called Sanaru. It has a lake that formed naturally, and that lake is called Lake Sanaru. It is not all that far from central Hamamatsu, and since there is a park laid out around t…