Dec 9, 2015 | Culture, Photography, Sendai
Almost every town in Japan has it’s own festival of some sort. Most of them are quite local affairs and it would be unusual for someone more than a couple towns over to know much about them. A few of them, however, are famous nationwide and Sendai’s...
Nov 3, 2015 | Area Guides, Culture, Photography, Sendai
We’d been in Sendai for almost 5 months before finally getting up to the site of Sendai Castle, which is odd considering it’s, at most, a 15 minute bike ride away. I think one of the reasons we kept putting it off was that we knew there wasn’t a...
Sep 12, 2015 | Area Guides, Culture, Experiences, Photography, Sendai
It’s been a good couple of weeks lately. You’d never know it by the way I keep posting leftover Tokyo photos but we’re finally pretty settled into daily life here in Sendai. The layout of the city is a bit less of a mystery, we’ve made some...
Sep 1, 2015 | Food, Raves, Reviews, Tokyo
There’s lots to like about eating out in Japan. Aside from the seemingly infinite variety and general high-quality of the food itself, there’s a lot to be said for how often I find the locale itself will add to the experience. Due to its relative scarcity,...
Jun 23, 2015 | Area Guides, Food, Photography, Raves, Reviews, Tokyo
A while back while we were still in Tokyo, we met up with an old friend of Mary’s and headed into the night. After an Izakaya dinner in Shinjuku, we were searching for a place to have a drink. There’s certainly no shortage of places in Shinjuku to have a...
Jun 18, 2015 | Area Guides, Culture, Photography, Raves, Tokyo
I wonder how many Tokyo travel guide covers the entrance to the temple Senso-Ji appears on? I’ll be it’s roughly all of them! And yet, with as many times as I’ve been to Tokyo, I’d never visited it myself. So one pleasant early-spring...