Thoughts

To what , for what, for whom does one pray?  On my last day in Japan, I visited the neighborhood shrine, Hikawa Jinja.  These sacred places...

Many friends have expressed an interest in traveling to Japan.  My thoughts: do it!  Japan is very safe and clean, so the only real conce...

The Seikan tunnel  between Honshu (main island) and Hokkaido (northern island) spans 53.85km, of which 23.3km lies under the sea.   At the ...

I've processed some photos from the Tohoku region (the northeast of Japan).  In a country with an aging population, the demographics a...

I stopped in Morioka for a bowl of noodles.  The city is apparently known for all sorts of noodles: soba, reimen (a sort of cold ramen noodl...

I suppose  I came to Japan in search of some cultural quintessence.  You would think to look in a place like Kyoto, where you can look arou...

There are vending machines everywhere in Japan.  And you know what they say about vending machines... where there's one, there are many:...