6 worlds – a blog about life in Japan and other topics

Thanksgiving at Ako castle

This year American Thanksgiving happened to coincide with a Japanese holiday called Labor Thanksgiving Day. Since I had off from

Sakoshi is a little seaside town bordering Ako and it is one of my favorite places to visit. Here are

Last weekend I went once again to Kyoto, this time for a second trip up Mount Hiei to visit Enryakuji

North of Himeji on top of Shosha mountain there is a thousand year old Tendai Buddhist temple complex called Engyoji

Just north of Ako, a twenty minute bike ride from home is a beautiful little mountain called Amako Mountain (尼子山).

I has been a while since I have posted here, so now is a good time to post an update.

I’ve been playing with a new camera lately, rather than just relying on my phone for pictures (Thanks Jim!). Here

After our guides left us, we headed towards the Philosopher’s Path, so named since Nishida Kitaro, founder of the Kyoto

It’s been a while since I have posted anything on this blog, and to those of you who visit from

After a pause for more than two years, because of the corona virus pandemic, Japanese festivals are finally coming back!

Tucked away on a hillside above the small town of Arashiyama on the outskirts of Kyoto is a small temple

Mount Fuji is of course the iconic Japanese mountain. Its symmetrical cone which rises up 3776 meters above sea level

We often focus on the end of the growing season for the various foods we grow — we enjoy strawberry

It’s wrong for you to breed a second mind on top of the mind you already have by trying to

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. Octavia