Fukuoka by Night
After lunch I went back to the hotel in the late afternoon, took a nap, and headed out again in the evening. Maybe because Dontaku was over, things had calmed down a lot, but it was still Golden Week, so the y…
After lunch I went back to the hotel in the late afternoon, took a nap, and headed out again in the evening. Maybe because Dontaku was over, things had calmed down a lot, but it was still Golden Week, so the y…
After Shimonoseki, the next stop was Fukuoka. During Golden Week, Hakata is famous for a huge festival called Dontaku. Not that I had much interest in the festival itself, but schedule-wise there wasn’t …
I think wandering around unfamiliar streets might be the real joy of travel. A place that’s everyday life for someone, where they make their living, and maybe the hometown they miss… I want to see …
Ganryujima is about 10 minutes by boat from the Shimonoseki mainland. At first I figured the pier must be somewhere closer to the island, but when I asked the information staff at the fish market, they said yo…
For Golden Week I did a northern Kyushu trip again, same as last year. The first stop was Shimonoseki, a place Koreans know from the Treaty of Shimonoseki. In Japan it’s famous for winter fugu, but, well…
I’ve had way too much work this week (damn you, Hibernate) and couldn’t give the blog any attention. Milking the Kyoto travelogue for a whole month is starting to prick my conscience. The busy stre…
The standard Kyoto sightseeing route is probably Kiyomizu-dera / Kinkaku-ji / Ginkaku-ji / Sanjusangen-do. We’d already done our cherry blossom viewing in the morning, so we figured we’d do some si…
Here are the photos I took on the way down from the Philosopher’s Path, past Heian Jingu Shrine, to Kyoto City Hall. The whole city is overflowing with cherry blossoms. This is why Kyoto in season is suc…
I spent the weekend in Kyoto. As an office worker who can only travel on weekends, there was no way to time it for peak bloom, but the day was clear and warm and I could really soak up the full feeling of spri…
It was a weekend when I could finally relax for once, the weather was nice and the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, so I went out… well, not really… The cheap iPhone charger I’d bought in …
The weather has been a bit odd lately, but by the laws of the seasons spring should be here any day now. Since I post things in order, this one was originally scheduled to go up about a week from now, but I…
When you travel with friends you end up worrying about them and can’t take photos properly. Traveling alone is easier, but I’m starting to get a bit tired of it. This year I really need to find mys…