Japan’s main island of Honshu is home to several stunning mountain ranges. They’ve not only made for (literally) Olympic level snow sports, but also for […] Read More
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In keeping with last month’s post on places I must have passed a hundred times but never went to take a closer look at, this […] Read More
This isn’t a post about a specific ride, more that in January on a few quick jaunts I was poking around the Hayakawa hills, just […] Read More
There is a place in northern Japan called Shingo, in Aomori Prefecture, where a local story holds that it has the real Tomb of Christ. […] Read More
Ah, the Michi No Eki. Or roadside station if you prefer Wikipedia‘s English translation. They’re a staple of the Japanese road culture at this point, […] Read More
As we landed at Shin Chitose airport in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on the first weekend of February 2020, I remembered that this […] Read More
It’s been exactly five years since I last did a ‘one second a day’ challenge, which I first saw on Vimeo, so I thought it […] Read More
Not often I get to post about a new date ‘era’ or jidai here in Japan, so I might as well. As some may know, […] Read More
Japan has a specific term for abandoned (or even lost) buildings or ruins – haikyo 廃墟. This petrol station (gas station / ガソリンスタンド) was certainly […] Read More
The annual family snow trips have been a popular event for us for a while and it’s not too much of a drive – ~4.5 hours […] Read More