After a wonderful day trip to the Oki Islands, it's time to continue with the Horaenya festivities with its second day called Chunichisai... read all

Good morning from Oki Islands, an archipelago off the coast of the San'in region... read all

It's time to unleash my inner otaku and enter the manga world of Tottori Prefecture... read all

After the fantastic start of the Horanenya festival yesterday, good weather had come... read all

The time has come to see the first day of the Matsue Horanenya festival... read all

This time I'm in the mood of sharing with you all my first trip to the San'in region... read all

The Tohoku Region is blessed with lots of natural scenic areas and in this series I had featured several of them... read all

Located about twenty minutes to the south of Aomori via the Shinkansen, Hachinohe is a small city that has a viable downtown area... read all

As part of the Cape Tappi tour, one place I had always wanted to visit was the Seikan Tunnel Museum... read all

One amazing place to visit in Tohoku are some of the most northerly parts of the country... read all

One of the top places to visit in Tohoku is the entire Oirase Gorge/Towadako (Lake Towada) area... read all

As part of the travels around the Tohoku Region, I stayed for one night one of the hotels in the Hoshino Resorts chain... read all

It's about an hour drive to the south from Tottori City deep into the country side where forest of Mongolian oak and Japanese cedar... read all

The boast ride was rather rough as some of the tourists were having sea sickness in the middle of the ride... read all

One might turn back at the entrance of this ordinary looking restaurant on the 2nd floor of a commercial building... read all

The Jinpukaku is a grand Western-style mansion in Tottori City, built in 1907 on the grounds of the former Tottori Castle... read all

The Tottori Sand Dunes are designated as a Japanese national natural monument. The scenery was unique as it was an opposite of an oasis... read all

This restaurant is located next to the Kanikko-kan within the local fresh-food market, which gave it a particular atmosphere... read all

We came to the Aoya Washi Studio to experience the making of Japanese paper or commonly known as Washi paper... read all

Didn't know that this Asian peer was first found growing in the wild at the turn of the century which was why it was named as the 20th Century Pear... read all