SAYONARA SHIKOKU – KONICHIWA KYUSHU! We left Shikoku and all its mountains, valleys, temples, shrines, tiny villages and great cities behind today, bound for Kyushu. Most of our day was taken up in transit, with the ferry ride across the Bungo Channel being the highlight of our day. […]
MARVELLOUS MATSUYAMA! Welcome to Matsuyama blog fans! This great Japanese city has everything you could possibly want as a visitor: an awesome castle, temples galore, lots of shops, good food, and glorious sunny spring weather. We had a great day exploring the city and its sights today and […]
OKU-IYA EXPLORATIONS Today’s adventures took us further into the Iya Valley – into the Eastern part of the valley, an area known as Oku-Iya. This part of the Iya Valley has no public transport links at all and is even less accessible than Nishi-Iya (i.e. Western Iya), where […]
OPEN AIR ONSENS, 12-COURSE MEALS & RAINY DAYS IN THE IYA VALLEY It started raining whilst we were tucked in nice and warm, in our futon beds, last night. And not just a light drizzle or spring shower: it is bucketing down outside. The wind is howling around […]
EXPLORING JAPAN’S HIDDEN IYA VALLEY The Iya Valley is what Japanese people call tooi inaka (i.e. the deep countryside); this is rural Japan at its most inaccessible and rustic. This is also Shikoku at its most spectacular. The Iya Valley is geographically in the centre of […]
Wandering Soles 