A Trip to Iwakuni, Yamaguchi
Iwakuni, right on the border between Yamaguchi and Hiroshima, has a bridge called Kintaikyo. It’s a wooden bridge built the traditional Japanese way, apparently made by joining timber to timber with hard…
Iwakuni, right on the border between Yamaguchi and Hiroshima, has a bridge called Kintaikyo. It’s a wooden bridge built the traditional Japanese way, apparently made by joining timber to timber with hard…
I couldn’t find any restaurant in Hagi in the guidebooks that looked especially good (cheap and tasty), so I booked a ryokan that serves meals. Even where I live, the cheap, tasty places rarely make it i…
I used the weekend for a quick trip to Yamaguchi. I was worried about traffic, so I left at 5 a.m., and luckily got there in just four hours. Once I crossed the prefectural border into Yamaguchi there wasnR…
These are photos I took when I went to see the fireflies in early summer. Ironically, my battery died, so I couldn’t get any shots of the fireflies themselves. Not that they would have come out well anyw…
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…
Since it was food served on a boat, I didn’t expect much at first, but the dishes turned out to be pretty high-end. (Had I known it would be this good, I might have skipped the Kitakata ramen…) Sas…
These are photos I took on a yakatabune, the highlight of this Tokyo trip. In Odaiba you can see boats hung with lanterns floating on Tokyo Bay, and that is exactly what this is. A shot of central Tokyo An ex…
Honestly, I didn’t want to come to such a boring place.. but it was a group tour, so I had no choice.. Since I was here anyway, I took a few photos. They don’t let you inside the Imperial Palace. S…
There are quite a few nice parks inside Tokyo. It’s a bit like how Seoul has the Han River banks, Cheonggyecheon or Yangjaecheon. But Yoyogi Park connects straight onto Harajuku and Shibuya, so it’…
I went to Tokyo Tower, which it’s no exaggeration to call the most famous sightseeing spot in Tokyo. It was daytime and the sky was gloomy, so there wasn’t much to see. So I didn’t bother goi…
Senso-ji in Asakusa, which I visited on this Tokyo trip. Back when I lived near Tokyo I never once felt like going, but somehow I ended up there this time. Well… since I was there anyway, might as well t…
I was in Tokyo for the first time in a while, and a friend said there was a decent neighborhood sushi place near his home and that we should go. This is the owner. He’s a little shy. He’s making t…