Matt Does Japan

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 […]

I’m finally getting around to writing my itinerary. Since the country is so linear, it tends not to matter what order I do things in, as long as I’m on my way to somewhere new when I stop (i.e., since I’m going to Abashiri, on the Sea of Okhotsk, either way, it doesn’t matter […]