More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  There is not a lot left of Mihara Castle, but what is left is somewhat striking. I arrived in Mihara at the end of day 12 of my walk along...

  One of the benefits of walking everywhere rather than using a faster method of travel is that you get to see things you would miss if you ...

  Giravanz is the local soccer team in Kitakyushu that lay at the stadium in Kokura. Their mascot is a seagull named Wavy. Matsu Beach is on...

Saga Manholes While walking from Kurume to Saga on day 56 of my walk along the Ky ushu  pilgrimage I took sna ps of any manhole covers I enc...

  January 4th, 2015, was the 55th day of my walk around Kyushu. I started from Amagi Station in Asakura, Fukuoka, and walked west across the...

  Japan is quite famous for the variety of brightly colored and diverse designs of its manhole and drain covers. I used to regularly post on...

Though there was reputed to have been a culling of some of the more useless cute mascots that threaten to outnumber the humans in Japan,...

There are more "cute" mascots per capita in Japan than anywhere else on the world by far. Last year a serious culling took pla...