All in a single day
14 November 2025
Okayama Castle Korakuen and Kurashiki
I knocked off all 3 of the tourist attractions in Okayama before 2pm. Notes here will be brief as there are a lot of photos (again). First up was ....
Longer than an epoch
13 November 2025
Okayama Aeon mall
Geology lesson time. Eon > Era > Period > Epoch. Generally an eon is billions of years. Now for a language lesson. In UK English it is aeon, in US....
The hunt for the castle cat
13 November 2025
Bicchu Matsuyama Castle from Bitchu-Takahashi station
There are at least 3 ways to spell Bicchu (Bitchu, Bitcchu). Today I did a not very strenuous hike that features a castle. It is 'one of the twelv....
Station takeover
12 November 2025
Omotecho shopping street
I have already done a full comparison of the station area and the covered shopping streets on both sides of the station area. The winner by a land....
Back to the mainland
12 November 2025
Takamatsu to Okayama on the slow train
Other than changing to the Shinkansen at the station on a previous trip to Shikoku, now I am in Okayama for the first time. It seems large and fan....
The far away food court
11 November 2025
YouMe town Takamatsu
Aeon is the main mall in town, but it is very very far away. YouMe town, which is the second mall brand in Japan after Aeon, looked close enough o....
Better than yesterday
11 November 2025
Mount Inazumi from Motoyama station
More accurately, Inazumiyama, Shihoyama, Mount Ueno and various others from Motoyama station including Takaya Shrine "gate in the sky", there was ....
A train runs through it
10 November 2025
Takamatsu shotengai roof
Tonight you will once again, see a lot of covered shopping streets, but possibly, you will see them in a different light. You see, here in Takamat....
Shrines then surprise danger
10 November 2025
Osayama from Kotohira station
Today was a bit of a surprise. First of all, I took a different train line in each direction, and both the JR line and the private Kotoden line to....