On the Sunday before the Sports Day public holiday, Oct 11th this year, the All-Japan Ninja Competition is held at one of Japan's surviving original Ninja training compounds: Koka Ninja Village. As part of our 'making the most of the last few months' campaign, we decided to head down on this day and we were ...
Our last day in Kyoto was Sunday and the weather finally cleared so it was both safe and worthwhile to get the dslr out. We strolled Gion again (still sweet but ...
Our trip to Kyoto last week was scheduled to catch the first night of the lantern festival in Gion. I'm doing this quick post because the festival is still on and it's well worth a ...
Hello. It's been a looong while, I know. Since returning from Sapporo I've have had all sorts of exciting experiences including a genuine bout of Influenza A (not something one experiences in Australia, really) followed by a delightful secondary chest infection because the Aussie in me didn't think a fever and a bad cough was ...
Tony McNicol is a photojournalist based in Tokyo who has a great blog which covers his experiences both as a photographer and in Japan generally and, of course, always has great photos! ...
This past Saturday we went for a drive with a couple of our American ICT friends to the open air museum Meiji Mura. "Meiji Village" is a park with over 60 original buildings from the Meiji era (1868 -1912) transported and restored so that ...
NB.. For those of you who have stumbled on this page looking for directions and aren't interested in a review of the shopping district of Osu Kannon (to wit: is it really the best place to go for cameras et al.) - scroll down to a little above where the photos begin. ...
