My legs stretched out in front of me, at least as far as they could in the cramped space of a JR train. A long day of wandering around Wakayama city had had left me pretty tuckered out and in order to balance the scales I had treated myself to a nice long soak in [...]
Look very closely
It happened to me again last weekend, not that I was really surprised. After five years in Japan it’s happened so many times in so many places that the only thing I note now is how novel it was. Sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose, to see our reaction, [...]
The mesh canopy of my slim one man tent made it easy to view the numerous orange and gold glowing lanterns suspended above my head. The sound of rain steadily dripping down through the branches of the massive cedar trees towering above me from a storm recently past and the babbling of a brook [...]