Anamori Inari
2022年5月1日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Pretty tired but it feels unbelievable to be wandering the streets of Tokyo again. Stumbled upon Anamori Inari Jinja, which had rows and rows of the tiniest cutest torii I’ve ever seen!
Sakurai Futamigauri & Northern Itoshima
2022年5月7日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Spent the day biking around the northern part of Itoshima peninsula. Stopped at a small seaside restaurant for red sea bream and chazuke (pour green tea over the rice).
Yanai’s Paper Goldfish
2022年5月14日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
The Town of White Walls is like taking a walk back in time. This peaceful, quiet street is lined with traditional Edo-style merchant houses and shops, all painted in white. And apparently the goldfishもっと詳しく
Tokuyama (Yamaguchi Prefecture)
2022年5月14日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Staying a couple nights in Tokuyama while exploring the surrounding area. Wandered into a neighborhood ramen shop, extremely small, just a few bar-style seats. The husband and wife running the shopもっと詳しく
Iwakuno’s Cormorant Training Facility
2022年5月15日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
There’s a lot I can probably write about the history of this region, like how Kintai bridge is one of the most beautiful and famous footbridges in Japan. But I think instead I’ll focus on theもっと詳しく
Sato Cape, Kasado Island (Kudamatsu)
2022年5月15日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Apparently this is one of the best places to see the sunset in Japan, but I caught the 17:40 train back to Tokuyama and didn’t stay.
Ohori/Maizuru Park
2022年5月28日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Japanese garden, azaleas still blooming, and a short hike up to the ruins of Fukuoka castle.
1,400 wind chimes
2022年7月15日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Makemake Furin (wind chime) Matsuri festival. Dōgaku-ji, Ishii, Japan.
Now with one more wind chime.
Anan, Tokushima
2022年7月16日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Tokushima Castle Ruins and Central Park
2022年7月17日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
“We keep these water birds around this moat.
They are creatures, not eatable.
Do not catch.
Take good care of them!”
Okayama Korakuen
2022年7月17日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Osu Shopping District
2022年7月21日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Nagoya Castle and Honmaru Palace
2022年7月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Inu Jinja
2022年7月22日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Rub the pup’s belly for an easier childbirth.
Kiyosu Castle
2022年7月22日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Kiyosu Castle was built between in the early 1400s, but this 1989 reconstruction is likely not accurate since there are no records of the original castle’s design. Regardless, it’s a stunningもっと詳しく
Pokémon Fossil Museum
2022年7月23日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
A special exhibit currently hosted by the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History.
Atsuta Jinju
2022年7月24日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
According to Wikipedia, this long-revered Shinto shrine was established during the reign of Emperor Keikō (71–130) and ranks alongside the Grand Shrine of Ise. It was right off the Meitetsu line soもっと詳しく
Tokoname (A Whisker Away)
2022年7月24日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
The movie A Whisker Away was set in this small pottery town.
Wakkanai
2022年8月6日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Hokkaido used to be closely connected to southern Karafuto (by ferry), but was lost to Russia around the end of WWII (and is presently Sakhalin). Wakkanai Park contains a number of memorials to thoseもっと詳しく
Cape Sōya
2022年8月7日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Technically, according to Wikipedia, “Japan's northernmost point is disputed, because Japan considers it to be on Iturup [one of the southern Kuril islands], an island de facto governed byもっと詳しく
Cape Noshappu
2022年8月7日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Besides the idiot doing yoga on the wall behind the dolphin-clock statue (which wasn’t really that photoworthy anyway), and what I suspect was highly overpriced umi don (raw sea urchin/rice bowl),もっと詳しく
Fuji Wildlife Area
2022年8月8日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 23 °C
Mount Rishiri
2022年8月9日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Roughly 9-hour roundtrip hike up an extinct stratovolcano (el. 1,721 m or 5,646 ft; last eruption: 5830 BC). I took the main Oshidomari hiking trail just short of the summit. I wanted to takeもっと詳しく
Cape Tour Course
2022年8月11日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 23 °C
A beautiful hike along the northwestern coast of Rebun. Took the bus to Cape Sukoton, enjoyed a coffee and some kelp ice cream with a nice view of Todojima, and then hiked south along the coast, at aもっと詳しく







































































































![View from [near] the summit (Kutsugata trail, 9th station?); Ostrov Moneron is visible on the horizo](http://media.fp-files.com/footprint/62f311245eb395-38117472/5kpeusdbglbjr_m_s.jpg)

















