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Rail Report: Trainspotting my way around Shikoku, Japan (19-23 November 2016)
I’ve logged thousands of miles of travel through the years in pursuit of the two Japanese things that interest me the most: trains and castles. Needless to say, I find a journey especially rewarding when I can satisfy my thirst for both in one fell swoop – and there are few places better endowed in…
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Rail Report: Niigata to Echigo-Yuzawa on the Genbi Shinkansen, Japan (30 September 2017)
I’m not a fan of contemporary art. In fact, if I were to speak plainly on the matter, I’d risk saying something unprintable. That said, I’m an incurable railway enthusiast through and through … and when I learned that one of Japan’s famous shinkansen trains had been transformed into a high-speed art gallery, riding that…
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新年明けましておめでとうございます
Diego happily wishes you all the best in the year ahead. ~(‾⌣‾~)
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Et hoc vobis signum…
…Inveniétis infántem pannis involútum, et pósitum in præsépio. (From the Gospel according to St. Luke) A very happy Christmas to you, gentle reader, as well as to your family and all your loved ones.
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Field Report: Azuchi Castle Ruins and Museums, Shiga, Japan – Part One (03 May 2017)
In a quiet corner of Shiga Prefecture, on the slopes of a thickly forested hill overlooking Lake Biwa, I came across the scattered remnants of what was, for a few glorious years, the mightiest fortress in all of Japan. A castle to end all castles, unequalled in size or grandeur by anything that had come…
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