CREATOR OF “MORE THAN TOKYO”
About Me — Diane Neill Tincher
Beauty and History are Everywhere in Japan
Growing up in northern Virginia, my life revolved around my Catholic school and the Fort Myers’ Officers’ swimming pool. When I tired of swimming on long summer days, I would walk under big shady trees through the old section of Arlington National Cemetery. Each unique 19th century gravestone held such dignity. I marveled at their age.
At that time, the farthest thought from my mind was that I would spend most of my life in rural Japan.
But here I am, in Kagoshima, Japan, living next to one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and where local gravestones are not a mere 200 years old, but many are over 1,000 years old.
Funny, the turns a life can take.
I moved to Japan in 1987 and concentrated the next 30 years on raising my rather large family. Now that my children have, for the most part, made their way in the world, I have time to do things I would like to do.
In 2018, I began working as a tour leader — a job I seem to be made for. I thoroughly enjoy taking curious foreigners throughout this beautiful country that I love and call my home.
