Activities

A towering pier, a concrete yellowish block under the evening sunshine; what a powerful view. The “Gunkan” (Battleship) Island was...

ECO DRIVING Bio Diesel www.wnbiodiesel.com www.ybiofuels.org www.greasecar.com www.greasel.com. Diesel engines are usually though...

I left Tokyo with a few friends long before the sun came up and started on the trail around 8 a.m. Everyone was groggy from l...

Organic Wines www.freywine.com (distributor in Japan) The best wines in the world come from the finest grapes, and the finest gra...

Magome and Tsumago, two post towns on the old mountain road linking Tokyo and Kyoto, are still great places to rest for the weary...

Can a bathhouse be closed if the front door is left open? The Naked Stranger likes to ponder philosophical questions of life,...

There are no beaches here, at least not sandy ones. No seaside inns. The terrain is best described as vertical, making one wo...

Route 338 weaves along the northeast tip of Aomori in northern Honshu where sandy beaches stretch all the way from Misawa north t...