At KANDA, TOKYO, there is one famous SOBA-Shop named MATSU-YA. MATSU-YA's SOBA is very delicious... read all

About 15 km walk from Kakegawa (25 minutes east by JR Tokaido line local train from Hamamatsu station)... read all

Even though I came at about 6 pm, it was already crowded... read all

Just backside of JR Kanaya (40 minutes from JR Shizuoka by train) station is the start of the trail today... read all

Though there is nothing specific remains on the 9 km way From Fujieda to Shimada, in some occasion pine tree line that stirs your imagination can be seen... read all

Shizuoka city is now too developed to find something old that make you recall Edo era, when the old Tokaido was really active... read all

After taking times at Seikenji temple, I continued to westbound walk the old Tokaido... read all

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So Gunma's plums aren't so great yet... we'll just go a bit further South and find better! And using that as an excuse, we headed to Tokyo for a day trip... read all

This weekend we desperately wanted to get out of the house, and decided that combining a motorcycle trip with photographing the plum blossoms would be a good way to do that... read all

They are the pictures I took when I went to Aomori,
Sendai and other Prefecture around with my family... read all

Even though spring ..... read all

This is Kurashiki Bikan historical quarter. It snowed and it was so rare because Okayama prefecture which has Kurashiki is said to one of the lowest rainfall region in Japan... read all

Ono is a small town located in Fukui prefecture which is located roughly 50 minutes from the prefectural capital... read all

Up in the North West corner of Chubu is the prefecture of Fukui. Apart from being home to a large number of Nuclear Power stations... read all

Where and what is Matsuzaki? - I assume even seasoned travelers who have lot ideas about Japan might have never heard of it... read all

Always wanting to see the highest waterfall of Japan (Nachi-no-Yaki), I boarded the train in Osaka in the early morning to arrive at noon in the very small town of Katsuura... read all

Using my Lonely Plant Hiking in Japan for the first time, I went of to the Fushimi Inari shrine to take the long torii path read all

Matsuo Taisha Shrine is an interesting ancient shrine on the outskirts of Kyoto... read all

The Boso peninsula is not too far from Tokyo, but feels a world away as it's not very densely populated... read all