Gunma Prefecture Fujioka City's annual "Fuji Matsuri", or Wisteria Festival. It is usually held from the end of April to the beginning of May... read all

After driving around the east coast of the Noto Peninsula yesterday, I decided to check out what Wajima had to offer along with travelling down to Wakura Onsen... read all

Well after a drizzly day, I was happy to see that the weather had improved... read all

For my travels today, I first took the Shinkansen from Itoigawa to Kanazawa (little under an hour) and then drove from Kanazawa to the sleepy fishing village of Wajima... read all

Yesterday I travelled along the ocean to see what Itoigawa had to offer and today I headed inland along the old Salt Road to Matsumoto... read all

Itoigawa is located in the Southern tip of Niigata prefecture and can be reached by the new Hokuriku Shinkansen in around 2 hours... read all

For today, I left the sleepy town of Iiyama for the Kurobe Dam Railway in Toyama. The one stark difference I have noticed is that there are now lots of tourists -albeit of the Japanese variety... read all

For my last post, I showed you some of the more rural sites of Iiyama. However, I decided to spend most of today in Iiyama town along with visiting Madarao Kogen... read all

Iiyama is roughly 2 hours from Tokyo on the new Hokuriku Shinkansen and is home to beautiful scenery which Nagano prefecture is famous for... read all

Manza Onsen is a rural onsen town in Gunma Prefecture which is famous for it's highly acidic waters along with large chain hotels... read all

Kusatsu onsen in Gunma Prefecture is widely known as one of the best places in the Kanto region for high quality hot springs... read all

Dewa Sanzan consists of three shrines found at the top of three different mountains (Haguro-san, Gas-san & Yudono-san)... read all

The new Hokuriku Shinkansen debuted on March 13, 2015 amid fanfare befitting this train-crazy nation... read all

My last day in Japan began with weather ideal for bike ride... read all

or today, I hired a car to travel around the general Tsuruoka area which saves a lot of time compared to catching sparse public transport... read all

Tsuruoka is located in the South West of Yamagata prefecture and is known as the main gateway town for the Dewa Sanzan shrines... read all

When most people visit Gunma, they head straight to the onsens of Kusatsu and Manza... read all

Main tourist spots in Hiroshima are located close to each other... read all

As my stay in Japan was ending on 13th April and Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route would open fully from 16th... read all

My name is Mathew Fedley and I am an international math/science teacher who will be exploring... read all