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A couple of years ago I won some plane tickets to Japan, and went inter-railing around Western Japan with my…
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So I’ve finally put up all the photos I took in Japan. Below is a summary and links to each…
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Here’s a Spotify playlist I made while I was in Japan, of Japanese artists and music that matched my mood…
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One of our final stop-offs in Japan was Hiroshima. Hiroshima is most famous for being the first city (and so…
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An important aspect of Japanese shrines and temples are ema plaques (the name 絵馬 literally means “picture horse”). These are…
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While we were in Nara we also visited a traditional Japanese tea garden. Unfortunately the tea house was shut, and…
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Our final stop in Japan before flying home from Osaka was Nara. In the 700s it was the capital of…
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While I was in Japan we visited the island of Okunoshima. In the Second World War it was a top…
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I have a zine of articles about children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones (of Howl’s Moving Castle et al) I wrote…
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Benesse House on Naoshima doesn’t allow photos of their modern art collection, so here is a selection of works I…
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Naoshima is tiny idyllic island in the Seto Inland sea devoted to modern art. The opening of the Benesse modern art…
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Kyoto is famous for its Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, many of which are UNESCO world heritage sites. There are…
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Here’s some more photos of Kyoto. I have split the pictures up into several entries. You can see more photos…
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When I was in Japan I went to the Studio Ghibli Museum just outside of Tokyo. Sadly pictures were not allowed…
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Here’s some photos of details of the Zen moss gardens of Kyoto.
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Here’s some photos of Kyoto. I have split the pictures up into several entries. You can see more photos from…
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Here’s a selection of instagram photos I took in Tokyo. I felt I was giving it short shrift only having…
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I took a lot of photos in Japan, and it’s taken me a while to sort through them. I’ll be…
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So I haven’t updated here for over a month, and updates have been thin on the ground all year. That’s…
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This March I’m going to Japan for two weeks with my friend Vicky (also of Pen Fight zine distro), co-inciding…
