Tag: Ako

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

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

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

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

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