There will be fog
16 November 2024
Mount Tanzawa Okura ridge route
I have done this hike before, and I declared it to be the best hike in all of Japan with the best views. Today there was no view, it was all fog. ....
Spoilt for choice
15 November 2024
Asakusabashi to Asakusa
Tonight I am back in Tokyo, so I had about 500,000 choices for where to eat. Almost none of them had dinosaurs. Also, I discovered by accident tha....
Altered Hokuriku lap completed
15 November 2024
Fukui to Tokyo on the shinkansen
Long train ride day, bare minimum photo effort day. I started my day in Fukui, at the dinosaur themed station, where I wrote a personal goodbye n....
Last lap of a small town
14 November 2024
Fukui station area again
Tomorrow I go back to Tokyo, there will be more food options there. Tonight I did a lap of concentric circles around the Fukui station area, befor....
The main show out of town
14 November 2024
Fukui prefectural dinosaur museum
First of all, prefectural is not actually a real word, dictionaries list it as a bastardisation of English commonly used in Japan. Secondly, today....
No cream this time
13 November 2024
Fukui east of the station
Tonight I walked some distance on the side of town with nothing on it. I found a supermarket and some overpasses for some long exposures. The supe....
Slippery and ropey
13 November 2024
Hinoyama from Gotanjoji temple to Oshio station
A rare second day of hiking in a row due to the dinosaur museum being closed on every second Wednesday. I woke up to unexpectedly wet streets and ....
Blue wall
12 November 2024
Fukui Katamachi area
Tonight I went to the other busy area of Fukui, I think. I could not really find anything there, so I had to retreat back to the comforts of the s....
Short steep and slow
12 November 2024
Washigatake from Echizen-Takehara station
The farmers have started burning crops and plastic. My train ride today was up a very picturesque smoke filled valley to Echizen-Takehara station.....