Kobe Street Scenes in Early Spring 2010
I’ve been to Kobe so many times that I know my way around and the usual sightseeing routes by now, but even so, doing shopping and sightseeing at the same time is no easy task. So I walked around diligen…
I’ve been to Kobe so many times that I know my way around and the usual sightseeing routes by now, but even so, doing shopping and sightseeing at the same time is no easy task. So I walked around diligen…
Haruki Murakami’s early novels are Japanese novels, yet they feel like American ones. You could say it’s John Cheever mixed with Jack Kerouac and topped with Richard Brautigan’s humor, and I …
Like most engineering types, I’m not someone who cares much about fashion, and since I always wear a suit at work, apart from T-shirts I only buy casual clothes once every few years, when I’ve run …
The Sanda outlet mall, which I introduced here once before, has been renovated. They doubled the number of stores and on top of that ran a renovation sale, so people were pouring in from all over the country. …
I got to Matsue Station at the crack of dawn and took these photos on my way home. They’re just scenery shots, so I don’t think they need much explanation. …
It had been a while since I got a real chance to shoot, so I snapped a bit of everything. A building at Shinagawa Station Maybe because it had just rained, everything looked crisp and clean. Tokyo Tower I…
My first day in Tokyo was rainy and the weather was pretty miserable, but on the second day it cleared up nicely. After eating, I headed to Rikugien near Komagome Station, partly to do some photography for the…
From Ijinkan I head over to Chinatown. The sights worth seeing in Kobe are the Kitano area with the Ijinkan houses, the area around Sannomiya, and Nankinmachi (Chinatown) plus the area around Mosaic and Merike…
Since coming back from Korea my health has gone downhill and work has piled up, so I’ve hardly gone anywhere for fun or to eat out. After two weeks of that, I really felt like getting away somewhere. So …
I started practicing golf a few years ago, but I never actually had the chance to go to a golf course. I didn’t have much spare time, and I didn’t have anyone to play with either. I didn’t go…
Tsuwano is a town with a long history. Around here it’s also called “Little Kyoto,” and tourists come flocking every day. Sweetfish (ayu) was the main reason for the trip, but since I’d…
This was my third visit to the Adachi Museum of Art. Having been there so often, the garden doesn’t move me the way it did the first time, but the artworks change every season, so there’s always so…