I’ve learnt that there’s a reason Kanazawa looks like Kyoto: it also avoided the WWII bombs. So all the Edo-era bridges, houses, temples, and Geisha districts remain, but on a more walkable scale than Kyoto. Continue reading Day Four & Five: Kanazawa
Today we’d be driving to the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, that thin arm that sticks out of Japan and is often left off maps. But before we headed for the coast, we needed to check off one more no. 1 in Japan: its tallest waterfall. Continue reading Day Two: Toyama to Noto
One of the best things about living in the Japanese countryside is the abundance of temples and shrines. Rather than praying in churches or cathedrals, Japanese people make pilgrimages to little wooden shrines that are often buried deep in a forest or hidden on a distant mountaintop. Nihonmatsu has some of my favourites. Continue reading Nihonmatsu’s Many Gods
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