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I’ve put up the last set of photos from our recent vacation in Japan. It’s a collection of photos of odd bits of Engrish, food, fashion, and other things which didn’t really fit in anywhere else. Just for the fun of it I’ll provide a guided tour here. All of these photos are hosted on [...]

I’ve put up a set of photos here taken outside of Sanjusangendo, one of our favorite places in Japan. Sanjusangendo is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto that houses 1000 statues of the deity Kannon. We first visited it a couple of years ago when Sid took us there as our guide. When he described it [...]

One of the things that caught us by surprise upon our arrival in Tokyo was the new Tokyo Sky Tree. The Sky Tree will be the successor to the Tokyo Tower and will be the tallest free-standing tower in the world. It was about half of its final height of 634 meters while we were [...]

I just posted a set of photos from Kobe here. We spent the afternoon and evening in Kobe with our friends Sid and Takako Makino. It was very nice to see them again. They showed us around Kobe’s Chinatown and other parts of downtown Kobe, and we stopped for tea at one of Takako’s favorite [...]

I’ve put up four photos of Lake Shinji here. Lake Shinji is immediately next to Matsue. The residents of Matsue are very proud of Lake Shinji, and rightfully so. It is very pretty, even though we didn’t see the crimson sunsets for which it is renowned. It is connected to another lake which is in [...]

I just put up a set of photos here from a walk we took one morning in Kyoto. I’m feeling lazy (actually I’m feeling tired of dealing with stoopid computers on what’s supposed to be my day off) so I didn’t put comments on the photos. If you have any questions about any of them [...]

Today’s post brings us to the main reason that we traveled to Matsue. Over a year ago we saw a particularly striking photo of a garden on one of our Japanese calendars. Tracie eventually figured out that the photo was taken at the Adachi Museum of Art near Yasugi, Japan. Yasugi itself is fairly small [...]

Mastue is home to one of the few castles remaining from the feudal era of Japan’s history. We figured that it would be a must-see while we were in Matsue, simply because castles are generally must-see sorts of things as far as Tracie and I are concerned. The castle and the surrounding grounds were indeed [...]

We visited Matsue for the first time during our trip in Japan this year. Matsue is a city of about 195,000 people near the west coast of Japan, i.e. on the other side from where we’ve spent most of our time. It’s not on a shinkansen line so one reaches it by taking an express [...]

I just put up a set of photos on Flickr here taken at or near the Hase-Dera temple near Kamakura, Japan. It’s a lovely place and there’s much more to it than these photos show but I’ve taken a lot of pictures there on previous visits and hence mostly just admired the cherry trees. Tweet