Jeff and I have taken a ton of trips together in the past two years. Our very first foray as a couple was a week-long road trip around the main island of Japan with a quick dip into Shikoku for Golden Week 2012. We spent a few days in Tokyo […]
またかよ！ Not again! These were the words I yelled as my snowshoes slid out from under me, sending me sliding down a hill covered in more than six feet of snow. Fortunately, the hill was neither steep nor particularly dangerous, because we were in a nice little clearing in the […]
We had such a great time celebrating our two-year anniversary on Mt. Zao this past Friday. We splurged for a nice room at the Tsuruya Hotel, which is one of the more luxurious ryokan (Japanese-style inns) that we’ve stayed in.
Every February, the four sake breweries in Oyama, Yamagata, open up their doors to ticket-wielding sake-otaku for samples of the new year’s batch.
Mikawa is a small town north of where Jeff lives in Tsuruoka. Like a lot of rural Japan, it’s mostly farms and rice fields, but it’s for events like the 11th Annual Mikawa Warm Winter Festival that we gladly make the (15 minute) trek.
