New Year's In Japan
In a country that may be considered the hi-tech wonder of the world, Japan's New Year's holiday is a time when many people return to the traditional.
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In a country that may be considered the hi-tech wonder of the world, Japan's New Year's holiday is a time when many people return to the traditional.
Cycling the Seto Inland Sea, about the biking path that hopscotches across islands and bridges from Shikoku to Hiroshima Prefecture; Path of the Daimyo, about a hike with my teenage son on the old Nakasendo Highway.
I journeyed to Matsumoto, a charming castle town located at the foothills of the majestic Japan Alps in Nagano Prefecture.
Gion Hatanaka is a very lovely ryokan with the concept of 'comfortable silence in the city'.
What would be the point if you didn't meander through its narrow streets, lined with old wooden homes, teahouses, craft stores, and temples, stopping to watch, say, an old man make tatami mats or a woman arrange delicate sweets in her centuries-old shop like they were expensive pieces of jewelry?
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