KAGOSHIMA IS A PRETTY, GRITTY CITY Welcome to Kagoshima, ladies and gents! This is “mainland” Japan’s southernmost city and our home-away-from-home for the next few days. This hot, humid city of 600,000 souls is very pretty, tucked between green, forested hills and nestled in the shelter of Kinko […]
PEERING INTO THE ASO RING OF FIRE Call us stupid, but we went to peer into the pit of Japan’s largest active volcanoes today. Aso-san (i.e. Mount Aso) is one of the largest volcanoes in the world, with a caldera that’s about 20km in diameter and 128km in circumference. […]
KUMAMOTO IS A BEARY NICE TOWN Welcome to Kumamoto blog fans, a town famous for 3 things: its castle (Kumamoto-jo), its high-tech industry, and its mascot Kumamon*, the black bear. Kumamon was created by the government of Kumamoto Prefecture in 2010, when the Kyushu shinkansen line first began […]
TAKING A PEAK AT NAGASAKI’S MULTICULTURAL HISTORY For centuries Nagasaki was Japan’s only open port, where people, goods, services, technology and information from other countries were allowed into the country (albeit in a very controlled manner). Due to its historical importance as a trading centre, Nagasaki has a […]
NAGASAKI PEACE PARK & ATOMIC BOMB MUSEUM The city of Nagasaki is familiar to many people for all the wrong reasons; this is one of only two cities in the world to have been attacked with a nuclear weapon (the other being Hiroshima). There is so much more […]
Wandering Soles 