0On the afternoon of April 4, 2020, the last “normal” flight from Tokyo departed Taipei, where I was living at the time. Although I could hardly see the sky from my patio, large as it was...
0 Onsen hot springs are as ubiquitous in Japan as stupidly cute things and cherry blossoms, so to the outside observer, a desire to find and stay in the best onsen in Japan might seem pointless.It isn’t pointless, of...
0 Naming the best onsen in Japan is something of a fool’s errand. This is largely because most foreigners mis-identify what an onsen is.“Onsen” is simply the Japanese word for “hot spring”; an onsen is any...
0I had been training for the All Japan Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Masters Tournament on March 1st which was going to be my 1st tournament. I had completed all of my training and was resting for a...
0Truthfully, I have been meaning to create a Kanazawa itinerary for awhile—it just didn’t feel right until now.When I think back on the times I’ve spent in this magical city on Japan’s north-central coast, to...
0Is Hiroshima worth visiting? Oddly, this was a question I never considered until my first day in the city, which took place—as I never had any question it would—during my first trip to Japan.I’d be...
0Planning a trip to Japan is second nature to me now, but it was once incredibly stressful. Stressful enough, in fact, for me to cancel the Japan trip that was to have been my first.It...
0The first time I visited Japan’s Yakushima Island, I had no idea I was about to visit the Princess Mononoke forest. I didn’t even know what or who “Princess Mononoke” was, given that I was—and...
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