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Hi everyone! It’s been a while and I have some catching up to do with a couple of posts about

Uzbekistan is a place I had never really imagined visiting. I knew little about the place, aside from some basic

A couple of weeks ago I finally found the time to visit Nara. Nara is a small city nestled in

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

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

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

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

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