Travels

Plum blooms of Kairaku-en Garden

I go exploring Sakaiminato, the ghost town from the popular manga of Spooky Kitaro. The mist over the town is spooky and the stone monsters waiting at every corner add to the eerie of this monster wonderland.

When most travelers imagine the Japanese landscape, they picture cedar forests climbing misty mountains, quiet temple gardens, and neon-lit city streets that seem to stretch endlessly into the night. Deserts rarely enter the imagination. Yet along the windswept coast of Tottori Prefecture, facing the restless waters of the Sea of Japan, lies one of the […]

Today I visit the lovely Kenroku-en garden in Kanazawa. In the dark winter evenings the garden is illuminated and the glowing trees, enveloped in the strings of Yuki-tsuri look ever so enchanting.

Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani

We go on a tour of Gassho Zukuri Villages of Shirakawa-go and Ainokura.