Japanese Web Design Redux
Back in 2013, shortly after I moved to Japan, I wrote an article about my observations on why Japanese web design was so different from the rest of the world. I probably spent a day or two on it,...
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Hakuba: Into The Abyss
Back during the height of summer last year, we decided to spend a few days hiking in the Hida Mountains, also known as the Northern Alps, in Japan. Taking the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to...
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Mount Fuji Drive-by
Last month my parents finally managed to visit us in Japan, having been prevented for the past few years by covid restrictions. We decided to take a short road trip to Lake Yamanaka, the easternmost...
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Enoura Observatory Revisited
I first visited Enoura Observatory in Odawara shortly after it opened in 2018. I was immediately captivated by the artful amalgam of historical objects, architecture and the landscape itself....
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Naoshima Island
I first glimpsed the Setouchi Islands that dot the Seto Inland Sea when I walked the Shikoku Pilgrimage in 2016 and got to visit the largest of them when I completed the Shodoshima Pilgrimage in 2020....
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Ritsurin Garden Revisited
I last visited Takamatsu back in 2016 while I was walking the Shikoku Pilgrimage. It was one of the more lively cities I passed through on the island and one of its main attractions is the historic...
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Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Straight after visiting Ritsurin Garden, we had lunch nearby at Sanuki Udon Ueharaya, a lively little cafeteria-style restaurant where the udon is affordable and delicious, and the staff were very...
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Teshima Island
On our third day in Takamatsu, we took a ferry to Teshima, another rural island in the Seto Inland Sea between Naoshima and Shōdoshima that has become a destination for contemporary art in recent...
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House of Light
Over the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to experience a number of James Turrell’s skyspaces, 82 variants of which have been created worldwide. A Skyspace is an enclosed room inside which you...
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When the Sky Blooms with Sakura
I first heard about Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang from the documentary about his artwork made from gunpowder explosions and his quest to make a 1,650-foot ladder of fire rising into the sky held aloft...
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