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

Ako castle in the springtime

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

Himeji castle is one of the few remaining medieval castles in Japan. It was first built in the 1500’s on

Half an hour by bus from Himeji station is Mount Shosha. Although there is a cable car that brings one

Ichijodani is a small village outside of Fukui in the foothills of the mountains. Above this village there once was

Blue mountains constantly walking, a stone woman gives birth to a child in the night. Dogen, Mountains and Waters sutra

Sakoshi is a small town on the northern edge of Ako. The old town of Sakoshi straddles a narrow pass

It is my first spring in Japan and I was really looking forward to it, not only because I was