Before we get to the excitement of the mall, this afternoon I had to collect my train pass. I bought a couple of different train passes before the....
Today's hike was a surprise in many ways. It is not a well known hike. There is no trail on google maps, nothing on alltrails, but there are a cou....
Let me check when I was last here... November 2015. It rained much of the time I was here then. Anyway, 8 years later and quite a lot has changed ....
Now I am in Hiroshima. It took 4 hours on the fast train to get here but it was 20 minutes late. Today is also a national holiday, culture day. I ....
After the long day of train fighting, I decided to stay fairly local this evening, and walk down Ginza and gawk at the coloured lights and fancy b....
Today I had an all day battle with trains. First of all, I made a mistake I have made before. If you have a Suica/Pasmo/Icoca/Toica/Kitaca etc. th....
I thought I had better go and witness the aftermath of the devastation of Halloween in Shibuya. There was nothing destroyed or on fire to see alth....
First, the important update. The post office hostage situation is over. The gunman was 86! Did he still have his gun from ww2? He shot two people ....
First of all, the post office hostage situation is ongoing. Two people taken hostage at gun point after an earlier shooting of two different peopl....