Cheap Airfares and Sandy Beaches Found Elsewhere The mid-1960s heralded an era in which Japanese tourists started to travel abroad in significant numbers for the first time. Prior to 1964, the Japanese government made it difficult for the average...
Hiked on Apr 6, 2016 Jul 20, 2021 . Hachijo-fuji 八丈富士山 Duration: 7 hours Distance: 17.1 km Elevation change: 854 metres Highest point: 854 metres Start: Sokodo Camping Ground Finish: Sokodo...
Some Great Places to Camp Around Tokyo Whilst holiday-makers in Japan largely gravitate towards traditional Japanese ryokan and large-scale hotels, gaining popularity in recent years has been car camping or in common Japanese parlance auto camp...
A Peace Pagoda Deserving of Recognition The Tokyo Peace Pagoda (Okutama Bussharitou) has piqued my interest for a number of years after first spotting the 45 metre high monument from a nearby mountain. Set in the rather far-flung Nishitama District...
Early Morning Snowscape Transforms Lake Okutama Lake Okutama is a large water storage located around 60 km west of Tokyo, and was at the time of its completion in 1957 one of the world’s largest reservoirs. Owing to its proximity to central Tokyo...
21 Years of Rock Versus Man and Chisel South-east of the Turkish capital Ankara lies Cappadocia, a harsh landscape where its inhabitants for centuries eked a subterranean existence by tunnelling deep into the soft stone bluffs. On a comparatively...
Terrific Day Trips Within Reach of Tokyo With inbound tourists visiting Japan surging to a record 19.73 million last year means more visitors than ever are looking for avenues to not only escape the crowds, but check out some less familiar...
Hiked on Dec 16, 2015 May 11, 2021 . Mt. Tenranzan 天覧山 – Mt. Tonosu 多峯主山 Duration: 4 hours Distance: 7.6 km Elevation change: 95 metres Highest point: 195 metres Start: Hanno Station (Seibu...
A Simpler Way to Digitize Film Slides with a DSLR Digitizing old print photos is a relatively straightforward way to conserve your images and is usually only a matter of popping them under a flatbed scanner. Scanning reversal film sides on the other...
Fall Colours Transform Koganei Park A nice thing about living in western Tokyo is its expansive planned gardens and parklands. The autumn season is particularly stunning with Showa Park in Tachikawa a major drawcard for locals taking in the changing...