On Sunday, January 22, we went on a 9 kilometer hike from Magome to Tsumago (which can be suffixed with -”juku”, to indicate that they are postal towns, I assume), two old postal relay towns straddling the border between Gifu-ken and Nagano-ken (two of central Japan’s prefectures). Getting to there involved a train ride to […]
On Saturday afternoon, we went to the nearby city of Inuyama to see the castle there, called “Inuyama-jo”.
According to my guide book, it is the oldest castle in Japan, and it is also the only privately-owned castle in Japan (how’s that for superlatives). It seems much larger from the inside than the outside. […]
I stayed in Minokamo on Friday night and on Saturday morning, we went to a free Zazen meditation, calligraphy, and tea ceremony program north of town. Like most of the buildings I’ve encountered here, this one wasn’t heated anywhere except the calligraphy room where there was one kerosene heater. Buildings generally don’t feature forced air […]
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