Aug 16, 2017 | Area Guides, Culture, Kansai, Nara, Osaka, Photography
Another week, another temple/shrine post. Just gonna be honest, you visit a lot of these things when you’re in Japan. It’s one of the perks of living here. That having been said, I do admit to a bit of chronic temple/shrine fatigue. I’ve been to so...
Jul 5, 2016 | Area Guides, Experiences, Osaka, Photography
About a ten minute bike ride from our flat is Shitennoji (四天王寺), officially the oldest, active Buddhist temple in all of Japan. Pretty darn neato! And while the temple itself seems nice, what took me there was not the grounds themselves but what happens on the 21st...
Jun 16, 2016 | Photography, Sendai
On one of Sendai’s many hillsides, there’s a very pleasant temple by the name of Rinno-ji. Mary and I wandered up there last autumn and loved the quiet stroll up the bamboo-lined steps as well as the gardens on the temple grounds. Straight off the...
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...
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...
