Glassy canals and castles
5 November 2026
Kansui Park and Toyama glass art museum
The dreaded rest day, rain was forecast, but since I am not on a 20 km hike along the ridge of a slippery mountain, clear blue sky, typical. Since....
Immense stationification
4 November 2026
Toyama station area
As I may have mentioned, I originally came to Toyama in October 2016. Research tells me that the Shinkansen (bullet train) first came to Toyama in....
Dragonfly filled dry mountain
4 November 2026
Nanbo Fuji from Tomari station
Actual sunshine, praise all the Kaiju. And so on this, the big election day (radical left woke mind virus blue wave defeated god loving patriots, ....
Culture day might affect these hours
3 November 2026
Toyama Sogawa area
I had to have pizza for dinner. It was either that or a burger, or walk to the station. Not only did I have to have pizza for dinner, but it was t....
The smaller yet bigger city
3 November 2026
Niigata to Toyama on multiple trains
Now that I am in Toyama, where I have been once before, I can already reconfirm my suspicions that despite having half the population of Niigata t....
And now there is a flood
2 November 2026
Rainy Niigata night
My last night in Niigata and after editing and annotating about 1000 photos I was ready to head out for an evening saunter and some food, only to ....
Revisiting the mystery pole
2 November 2026
Mount Yahiko from Yahiko to Iwamuro stations
A lot of photos today so not much text. I have done this hike before. I did it slightly differently this time. It rained but I did not really get ....
Both sides of the tracks
1 November 2026
Niigata station area
As previously threatened, tonight was the night for re-exploring both sides of the station to see how it has changed since I was last here 7 years....
The worst train museum in Japan
1 November 2026
Niitsu railway museum
Laundry day! All my wet and muddy clothes are starting to grow mould so first laundry day had to be brought forward. I made sure that this laundry....