Nothing Compares To You – Galapagos, Petra, Kurayami
This is the fifth post in the Travel Highlights Series sharing some of the most enduring highlights of all our …
Tag Archives: Japanese culture
Beauty And The Beast – exploring Japanese style from the whimsical to the sublime
12-25 March 2019. My first time in Japan was in 2018, and I’ve written about how I tried to take …
Japan – the Untold Stories
27 April-16 May 2018. Trains I’m on a train from suburban Fuchu heading back to my hostel in Central Tokyo …
Kimonos-Weddings-Geisha: the streets of Kyoto
10-15 May 2018. I have six full days in Kyoto but I lose two of them. I lose the first …
The Red and the Gold – Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Shrine and the Golden Pavilion.
9-15 May 2018. In 1950 a disturbed 22-year-old novice monk burned down the five-hundred–year-old Rokuon-ji Temple in Kyoto, and then …
Japan: a Revelation
Of course I’ve been aware for most of my life of the obvious and iconic examples of Japanese culture: sumo, …
Adventures in Wonderland 