NARA - OH DEAR. OH! DEER!

“What’s in Nara?” you ask? “What’s in Nara?” I asked, several times to a variety of people. “A deer park and a giant Buddha statu…

A HISTORY OF HUMAN SACRIFICE IN JAPAN

The words sacrifice and Japan tend to conjure images of honourable samurai sitting on their knees ready to disembowel themsel…

TAKAMATSU - UDON EMPIRE OF THE SUN

Takamatsu is the second largest city on Shikoku, and sits on the Seto Inland Sea side of the island, giving ferry access to Kobe …

KANAGAWA - AN EXERCISE IN FAILURE

My single biggest inspiration for starting this travel writing blog last year is the late Alan Booth, who wrote about his walk …

OSAKA - JESUCRISTO, THAT'S NOT JASON BOURNE

Not knowing anything about the area I was in following my arrival, I marched with all the frivolity of a child in a summer mead…

KOBE - LIKE BEING IN AN EPISODE OF INITIAL D

The Great Hanshin earthquake, which hit almost thirty years ago, devastated much of Kobe, as evidenced by the collapse of the e…

NAGOYA - A CITY WITH NO TOURISTS MAKES THIS A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE

I arrived in Nagoya in the early hours, even after the night bus sat stationary for almost two of the eight-hour journey somewh…

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