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Scenes from Matsue

This is the scene during hanabi, the fireworks festival. This year I couldn’t be bothered, so I took just this one shot. Lake Shinji, view 1 You can see Yomegashima, whose name means “bride&#8217…

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Matsue Vogel Park

It’s a park themed around flowers and birds. I heard Matsue residents get 50% off, so I went to check it out. It was much nicer than I expected. There were quite a few owls that looked straight out of Ha…

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Shrines of Matsue

Matsue is a place with a lot of history, even by Japanese standards. That’s because Izumo, the main stage of Japan’s founding myths, is right next door. You could say it’s a bit like Gyeongju…

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Ochazuke at Minami

Even Matsue in Shimane Prefecture, where I live, has one restaurant that’s famous nationwide, so I went to check it out. (It took me six months of living here to find even one, sob.) The place is called …

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