Frankfurt to Tokyo
8月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Finally!!! After an additional 8 hours in Frankfurt airport, a long flight to Beijing, a hasty wheelchair through the airport, a connection to Tokyo with a vision of the perfect cone of Mt Fuji aboveもっと詳しく
Tokyo Day 1
8月31日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Tokyo is enormous...we left the warm grey clouds to explore via the subway, visiting the Meiji ji Shinto shrine and park, acres of tropical woods with dark blue butterflies the size of your fist,もっと詳しく
Tokyo Day 1 - part 2
8月31日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Shibuya Crossing, Shijuko, shrine, yakitori, the night
Tokyo Day 2
9月1日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Alps to Matsumoto
9月2日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Today we drove from Tokyo to Matsumoto via the Japanese Alps - the clouds covered most of Mt Fuji, its cone just occasionally peaking out, but of course notarized with snow, just grey and end ofもっと詳しく
Matsumoto Castle, a post town and a ryokan
9月3日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Awake to roll up the futons and breakfast on fresh pastries and strange vending machine drinks in the castle park..Matsumoto Castle is from 1594 and is one of Japan's big ones - six wooden floors - Iもっと詳しく
Kiso valley towns to Kyoto
9月4日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
Another interesting breakfast (Rico didn't even have rice this time), and off down to Kyoto via two more Edo-era post towns, mountain passes, waterfalls and woods - the Nakaswndo Trail connecting Edoもっと詳しく
Kyoto, imperial capital..
9月5日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Kyoto, thousand-year capital, spiritual and cultural centre of Japan, storied and mythical, maybe a bit like ancient Rome - full of shrines and temples built by emperors and warlords, politicalもっと詳しく
Kyoto - imperial capital 2
9月5日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Because there was so much beauty to see..
Kyoto temples 1
9月6日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Eva gave me the gift of a day of temples and shrines whilst the boys explored the railway museum, meeting us for lunch and a couple of final temples. Eva, me and The Boot walked all day amongstもっと詳しく
Kyoto temples 2
9月6日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Kyoto temples 3
9月6日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
There is more..
Kyoto finally
9月6日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Eva was very kind...
Nara to Naruto
9月7日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Last two temples in Kyoto - one at Rico's request, one a little Insta-famous (overcrowded and a little underwhelming). Then on to Nara, the first fixed capital of Japan in around 700 - but only for 70もっと詳しく
Whirlpools, rice fields, rain-green mountains
9月8日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
It poured tropical soft warm very wet rain...all green mountains, bright rice fields and wisps of cloud. We started with an onsen in the hotel overlooking Naruto Bridge, then slopped through the rainもっと詳しく
Over the sea to Kyushu
9月9日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
A slow start in our mountain top home, after a night of tremendous storms, insects dropping from the wooden rafters, thunder rolling over the valley, rain so hard it felt as if we were sleeping underもっと詳しく
Beppu's hells and old friends
9月10日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Beautiful onsen start to the day in Beppu, then a trip up the mountain ropeway which became a trip inside a cloud..Beppu is powered by geothermal activity, so steam gushes out of vents and chimneysもっと詳しく
Memory lane in Miyakonojo
9月11日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Late brunch with the wonderful Jack and Yoko, with gorgeous daughter Wendy. Thoroughly spoilt, reiki and discussions til early afternoon. Then off to visit the school building where I lived and workedもっと詳しく
Beaches, bento, rockets and dolls
9月12日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
A lovely day of friendship and experiences and stories.. Jack and Yoko took the day off and drove us to Uchinoura, Yoko's home town which I last visited 31 years ago. We stopped in the way at theもっと詳しく
Kagoshima to Kumamoto
9月13日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
A tearful but joyful farewell to the Stangs after such a wonderful, inspiring time 30 years later..then on to the glories of Sakurajima, a volcano in a blue sea of islands, surrounded by unearthlyもっと詳しく
Samurai, beauty, history and horror of Nagasaki
9月14日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Starting in Kumamoto Castle, home of the samurai, magnificent on the outside, sadly only in Japanese in the museum inside - then off via the ferry to Shimabara and another volcano and more greens toもっと詳しく
Nagasaki evening
9月14日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The 360 degree view from Mount Insa
The floating torii and red-capped Buddhas
9月15日〜22日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Leaving lively Nagasaki and its stunning natural setting, leaving the tropical wilds of Kyushu, to drive 5 hours back up on the long haul to Tokyo..We took the ferry over to Miyajima in Hiroshima Bayもっと詳しく
Red torii and buddhas 2
9月15日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Just too many photo opportunities...despite the tourists, there is still something very spiritual and special about this green island..
Hiroshima, Hijemi, drunk table tennis
9月16日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
We drove off the island with its green and shrines and deer on a ferry to ourselves, en route to Hiroshima and its Peace Park and okonomiyaki. Then on through green, rain, mountains and rice fields toもっと詳しく

















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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