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....
Welcome to the boring city
1 November 2024
Tokyo to Nagoya by Shinkansen
Allegedly, Nagoya is the most boring city in Japan. I have been here a couple of times before, once for a week and once for a day trip from Gifu w....
A shadow of it's former self
31 October 2024
Halloween in Shibuya
I have been to Halloween in Shibuya a number of times. It is now basically dead. Sure there are a lot of people, mostly tourists like me, going th....
The double
31 October 2024
Mitake and Otsuka from Hinatawada to Kori stations
2 hikes in 2 days, and I am not even tired. It is also Halloween, so I better go over to Shibuya where Halloween is again banned due to the Korean....
Getting to 40
30 October 2024
Jimbocho to Akihabara
I am well past 40 in age, and now past 40,000 in steps for the day. It does not happen that often and I do not have too much else to type here. A....
Waiting out the rain to play in mud
30 October 2024
Takao from Aihara station
I finally waited long enough for the rain to go. And to celebrate, a 23km hike. I actually had to wait a bit longer for the rain to go as when I ....
Umbrella terror
29 October 2024
Tokyo station and Ginza
Torrential rain. Now the problem is going to be that if there is too much rain the hiking trails will turn to mud. I will probably put up with tha....