The Sapporo International Youth Hostel has awesome rooms, multiple beer-only vending machines, a spacious laundry room, and friendly staff. It does not have good breakfast food.
After the first day of this stuff, I started eating breakfast from the Sunkus convenience store a block south (yogurt and cereal, mostly). Speaking of which, now is […]
On Friday, January 27, I woke up before 7:00 am at the inn in Nagano. When I arrived the day before, I spent some time talking over tea with one of the inn staff about the area. He told me about the monks’ procession into the Zenko-ji temple in northern Nagano, just a few blocks […]
Today, I journeyed far north into the Japan Alps to the tiny village of Ogimachi, in the Shirakawa-go region of the Kiso Valley. The trip started with an express train from Minokamo to Takayama, taking almost two hours. Then, I got on a bus from Takayama to Ogimachi, which took another couple of […]
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