On the morning of the second day of my Jeju trip, the first place I headed for was Dongmun Traditional Market. It sits about a five-minute taxi ride from Tapdong. My main goals for the day were a pilgrimage ar…
On our second morning in Jeju I got up a little earlier than our departure time and took a walk through the seaside park in Tapdong, in the old part of Jeju City. The weather stayed overcast for this whole tri…
Every time the season changes I make a point of heading out to an outlet mall to do some shopping. I’d been meaning to go again this year too, and then an opportunity suddenly came up, so off I went. Ori…
A friend of mine has an apartment in Asakusa, so I went over there to sort out a place to stay. A glass of Glenlivet Nàdurra My friend was running late, so I waited at a bar nearby over a glass of whisky. T…
Even on a tight travel schedule I still fit in an onsen ryokan. What a busy life this is.. Hamamatsu is about two hours away by Shinkansen. We stayed at an old hotel called Kaishunro, said to be the most famou…
These are photos I took one autumn night while wandering around downtown Seoul on a whim. Autumn is so short these days that I wanted to keep something to remember it by. Not sure if they’re any good, I&…
I wasn’t feeling great over the weekend and was just lying around, but I headed out to the Han River for a little while. Maybe because I’ve been overdoing it lately, I’ve been under the weath…
There was a Hoshino Onsen area near our pension. Of course the most famous place around here is Hoshinoya Karuizawa, but I didn’t see much point in staying at a pricey ryokan, so I’d planned to ski…
This was a short weekend trip, so I couldn’t get around much. Here’s a record of the quick little rounds I made. Gramercy Newyork in the basement of Takashimaya, Shinjuku I heard they sell a che…
I’ve always been the type who can sleep anywhere, but on this trip I actually put some thought into where to stay. Of all the six-star hotels in Tokyo, the Mandarin was the one I most wanted to try, and …
Work was at its busiest, but Children’s Day fell in the middle of it, so I went to the new outlet mall that just opened in Paju, partly to get myself moving. Everyone else apparently drives there, but be…
I’d heard a rumour that the new international terminal opened around the end of last year, but only now did I finally get to see it. If the old international terminal was on the level of a corner shop, i…