A big benefit of living in Japan for five weeks has been all the delicious food I’ve consumed. I’ve written about some of…
It’s actually Friday over here, but it’s still Thursday back home in California, so I say this…
Japan has hundreds of castles, but only twelve of them are real — castles with restored original towers rather than…
Okayama is conveniently centrally located in Western Japan. Half an hour by Shinkansen to the West, and you’re in…
If you’ve read the previous posts on this blog, two things should be clear: (1) I really, really love cats, and (2) the…
After Manabeshima and Kurashiki (more photos and stories to come!), we headed north to Takahashi. Our…
Me: “We’d like to charter a boat to take us to the ferry station tomorrow.”Manabeshima innkeeper: “That’s 3000…
As I mentioned, we came to the island of Manabeshima for the cats. While the island wasn’t as overrun as I had…
