Like this post? Help us by sharing it! While the rest of the country is shivering under its kotatsus, the sun has returned to Japan’s subtropical oasis after a long and wet typhoon season! To celebrate, this week I took a short holiday from my job at a hotel on Okinawa’s main island to spend […]
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Okinawa’s Haunted Hotel
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! This Halloween, some friends and I decided that before we followed the crowd to the photo-fest that is the costume party at Okinawa’s American Village, we would seek out a notorious abandoned (and reputedly haunted) hotel near the ruins of Nakagusuku-jo castle. The Japanese are seriously superstitious, […]
Exploring Japan’s Inland Sea: The Setouchi Art Triennale
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Yellow Pumpkin
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! During my trip in August, I took a few days out to visit the beautiful Island of Naoshima in the Seto Inland Sea. The island has become renowed in recent years for its art exhibitions – particularly the Art House Projects and Benesse House. This year, Naoshima, […]
Okinawa Shisa
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! It’s impossible to go anywhere in Okinawa without encountering the “shisa” – Okinawa’s take on the Chinese guardian lion. Resembling a cross between a lion and a dog, shisa come in pairs and can be found flanking the entrance of pretty much every house or building in […]
Tomonoura – The Real Japan
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Tomonoura Sign
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! “Have a nice…memory…in Japan”, said the smiling bus driver as I stepped off the bus from Fukuyama station, at the charming port town of Tomonoura. I had just spent a week working in Nagoya, so my overnight trip to the sea was something I had been looking […]
A day in Hakone
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Having spent most of my time in Kyushu, I had yet to visit the Hakone and Mt Fuji National Park. On a recent visit to Japan, I finally had the chance properly explore the beautiful moujntains and hot springs of the region. Here are some photos of […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Having spent most of my time in Kyushu, I had yet to visit the Hakone and Mt Fuji National Park. On a recent visit to Japan, I finally had the chance properly explore the beautiful moujntains and hot springs of the region. Here are some photos of […]