The Centenary Pines of Ritsurin Kōen │ 栗林公園の百年松
OhayōAugust 14, 2025 From the train window, the view is spectacular. I leave Honshū to reach Shikoku, crossing the Seto Inland Sea over an immense…
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The Izumo Taisha Shrine and the White Hare of Inaba │ 出雲大社と因幡の白兎
Ohayou July 31, 2025 In Shimane Prefecture, which borders Tottori, I went in search of Shinto shrines. I filled my goshuin-chō with red seals, encountered white…
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The Woman of the Tottori Dunes │鳥取砂丘の女
OhayouJuly 25, 2025 As the crow flies, Fukui is 180 kilometers from Tottori in the prefecture of the same name. By car, the shortest route…
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The Radiant Zen Beauty of Eihei-ji│ 永平寺の輝ける禅美
OhayouJuly 13, 2025 It is never easy to leave a place—barely discovered, just tamed—you have to leave and start again elsewhere. That is the purpose…
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Hakodate and the Last Samurai│函館と最後の侍
OhayouJuly 2, 2025 Hakodate is located in the south of the island of Hokkaidō, which it remained the capital of until 1868, when the Japanese…
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The Buona sera of Mr. Arasawa in Otaru│小樽の荒沢さんの「ブオナセーラ」
OhayouJune 28, 2025 Nights are quiet in Otaru. Very few places stay open after midnight, except for night bars and karaoke joints, but you have…
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Discovering the True Charm of Otaru │ 小樽の本当の魅力に出会う
OhayouJune 24, 2025 Hokkaidō is a completely different Japan from the rest of the country. The great northern island, 北海道 in Japanese, only began to…
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The mysterious Ninja temple of Kanazawa│金沢の神秘的な忍者寺
OhayouJune 22, 2025 Setting off at random, without any real goal, allows discoveries to unfold free from the burden of predetermined itineraries. Sometimes it takes…
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Kanazawa, My Love│金沢、私の愛
OhayouJune 19, 2025 Even in the rain, Kanazawa is beautiful — she will forever be my first love in Japan. A small snag in the…
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The art of coffee to escape the rain│雨を避けるためのカフェの芸術
OhayouJune 10 2025 The rain arrived during the night, and the streets are covered with a film of water that appears uniform. There aren’t really…
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Everyone loves sausage at 4 a.m.│ みんな朝の4時にソーセージが大好きだよ
OhayouJune 6th 2025 European newspapers haven’t stopped reporting over the past few weeks on the crazy congestion at Narita Airport in Tokyo: endless queues, tourists…
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The journey of impermanence│ 無常の旅
OhayouJune 2025 I rediscovered, with great interest and curiosity while reading Les Geishas, the excellent book by Robert Guillain, a key concept of Buddhism: impermanence.…
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