WELCOME TO JAPAN 2023

We saw Mt. Fuji! This was a huge hope. Dependant on weather, luck, and a good guide. And we had all three. We started with a ropeway up....

We had a couple days gap in our schedule, and thought "Can we see Fuji from somewhere?" I tried in 2003, and I didn't really see it. So,...

Another long travel day. Shinkansen A Shinkansen South 30 minutes. A bus South for sooooo long. Rice fields. An ad with a flag! The...

Yayoi! In 1992, Yayoi stayed at my home as part of a Sister Coties exchange between Fort Worth, Texas , USA and Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan....

You can stay in a hotel and be sourrounded by books! Ours is in the book neighborhood part of town. Book Hotel Jimbocho. Some book...

Cat Island in July, and it's hhhhhhhot! The cats are melted in the heat. This is Tashirojima Island. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tas...

July 27 There are a set (five?) of cabins all shaped like cats. They are at the high point of the ismand - the tsunami escape meeting...

Matsushima Yesterday (Wednesday) was is taking a skinkisen (fast) train from Tokyo to Sendai. Then a local train from Sendai to...

Senzui-35-2 Matsushima, Miyagi District, Miyagi 981-0213 Entrance to hotel. We pulled up in a taxi and got out to get our luggage. Little...

Eel that lives in a fish tank at the supermarket. The day care rolls the kids down the street and they get to visit the fish tank at the...

The Dormy Hotel. We stayed here upon on our arrival on Saturday, July 22 - Wednesday July 26. Across from Japan's biggest Starbucks,...

Wonderful, wonderful day! We have a delightful private guide named Sachimi. I found her through the website "ToursByLocals". We set up a...

I didn't expect the day-to-day attire to be bright and colorful. I was not expecting the intensity of black and white that I have seen...

Breakfast at the Riverside Cafe. Egg on avocado toast. Orange juice. Pineapple and lemon juice. Brioche French toast with a hard-sugar...

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