Breakfast in Roppongi
This time I booked a place in Roppongi. Food, shopping and sightseeing are all packed into one area, so when I can’t be bothered to travel far, nowhere beats Roppongi. Most tourists are probably better o…
This time I booked a place in Roppongi. Food, shopping and sightseeing are all packed into one area, so when I can’t be bothered to travel far, nowhere beats Roppongi. Most tourists are probably better o…
We left Arita at 3 p.m. I figured leaving around then would get us there by evening, but I got that wrong. Past Fukuoka there was a traffic jam that dragged on for about 70 km. It would’ve been a lot eas…
The day after hitting Fukuoka, I headed to Arita, famous for its porcelain fair. It’s in Saga Prefecture, but geographically it’s closer to Sasebo. It’s pretty deep in the hills, so I wondere…
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…
At long last I’ve found the time to sort out the rest of the photos from my Osaka/Kyoto trip. This time I was traveling with my elders, so we ended up eating at department-store restaurant floors not onc…
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…