Tag: Japan

Getting to Kanazawa: Lost without translation

On Tuesday, at Skye’s suggestion, I made my way to one of the “overlooked jewels” of Japan: Kanazawa. The reason Kanazawa isn’t terribly popular as a destination is: a) it’s located on the West Japan Railway’s Hokuriku Line, off the Shinkansen train line, so depending where you’re coming from, you might have to take some […]

Osaka: Bicycle Heaven

Hygiene products?!? Libraries!!?! Goodness, readers, you are turning my, ahem, “restful” vacation in Japan into a photo scavenger hunt. I will do what I can, but taking requests in turn, Carbonman is next up, as he has been waiting patiently for me to satisfy his bike fetish, requested on March 29. This post is for […]