Scenes of Yufuin, Oita Prefecture
The sky keeps getting darker and I’ve lost my way. At this rate, who knows when I’ll ever reach my destination, Beppu… Kurokawa Onsen wasn’t in the plan at first either, but Yufuin also…
The sky keeps getting darker and I’ve lost my way. At this rate, who knows when I’ll ever reach my destination, Beppu… Kurokawa Onsen wasn’t in the plan at first either, but Yufuin also…
On the way to my next stop, Beppu, which I wasn’t expecting much from, there turned out to be a cluster of famous hot-spring villages. The schedule was so rushed that I hadn’t had a proper lunch, s…
I was in a hurry on the way up for fear of traffic, so I took the photos I couldn’t take then on the way down, in a more relaxed mood. Going up we came from the Kumamoto side and coming down we headed to…
Mt. Aso in Kumamoto is an active volcano. When I actually went, the air was still full of smoke and the smell of sulfur. The volcano itself was fascinating, but the scenery around it is gorgeous and there̵…
In the morning I got up and, on the way to Mt. Aso, stopped by Kumamoto Castle for just a little while. I’d seen how imposing it was the day before, so I couldn’t just drive past. Still, if I took …
Sightseeing comes after lunch, as the saying goes, so now that I’ve eaten, I wander around the streets of Nagasaki. I was a little moved when I saw Christmas on July 24th Avenue, the film starring Miki N…
From Sasebo I set off for the outskirts of Nagasaki, where my room was. It was Golden Week, so I couldn’t get anything in Nagasaki proper and booked a capsule hotel in a nearby town instead. It was my fi…
Right after eating a Sasebo burger I was about to head straight to Nagasaki, when I spotted a sign for Huis Ten Bosch along the way. Places like this are usually for couples and families, so as a single guy I …
April was so busy that after I got back from Kyoto I didn’t go anywhere and just worked. Then one day a friend asked if I wanted to go see some sculptures made of sand, so off we went. On the way we sto…
After a slightly disappointing meal, the first place I headed to was the two Hongan-ji temples. Two famous temples, Nishi Hongan-ji and Higashi Hongan-ji, stand not far from the station. They’re easy to …
Walking along the Ijinkan street, I spotted a sign like this. Apparently it’s Sherlock Holmes’s room, shown to the public for the first time in Japan. As a Sherlock Holmes fan, there was no way …
One day in February, with the weather warming up a bit, I took a quick trip to Kobe. Strolling through cute, stylish streets and indulging in sweets would surely blow away all the stress piled up from overwork…