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…
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 …
The season has finally come to post the storm of entries I’ve let pile up. It’d be nice to post things ahead of time, or at least regularly, but that was never going to happen -_- Anyway, the week…
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…