ALL THE WONDERS OF NARA-KOEN IN ONE DAY Our mission today: to explore as much of Nara-koen (i.e. Nara Park) as we could in 1 day. We didn’t quite get around all 502 hectares of it, but we certainly saw some of the major highlights of this historical […]
TODAY WE STUMBLED ACROSS THE HANAKEUSHIKI FESTIVAL IN YOSHINO Being Sunday, Nara-shi was really busy today. So, rather than fight with the crowds of tourists and local picnickers, we decided to go out of town and visit the tiny hamlet of Yoshino instead. This small village is perched […]
SPRING AT KAWAGUCHIKO Following yesterday’s snowfalls we were awarded some respite today, with no further precipitations from the heavens and a modicum of temperatures available (it got up to 4 degrees today!). The skies around us here in Fuji-kawaguchiko-machi remained overcast all day, which meant Fujisan failed to […]
TOKYO’S TEMPLES, SHRINES & CEMETERIES It seems the sunny spring weather we ordered went astray…. We woke this morning to cloudy skies, drizzle and temperatures barely above freezing (it was exactly 4 degrees Celsius here this morning). Seems a large front of cold, wet weather has just […]
SAKURA SPOTTING IN SHINJUKU-GYOEN We awoke this morning to a warm, sunny spring day here in Tokyo – the perfect kind of day to go hanami (i.e. flower viewing)! Hanami is serious business here in Japan, with thousands of locals visiting parks during spring to hold […]
Wandering Soles 