11 Days in Chūgoku & Kyushu – Day 10 – Yanagawa

Unlike Dazaifu, the other interesting bits of Yanagawa town aside from the river boat punting tour are spread out. The small town didn’t feel crowded at all, compared to the crowd masses in Dazaifu later in the afternoon. It’s an

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11 Days in Chūgoku & Kyushu – Day 10 – Yanagawa River Punt-Boat Tour

Yanagawa is a small town 46 minutes from Tenjin Station in Fukuoka city, and was originally constructed in the 16th century, and is today particularly famous for its hundreds of kilometers of canals that run around the city. Punt boats,

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11 Days in Chūgoku & Kyushu – Day 09 – Fukuoka

Almost exactly a year ago, I was heading to Hong Kong for the 2018 iteration of the conference. On that occasion, Super Typhoon Mangkhut had just hit the city, and I witnessed its aftermath as the city’s services were in

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11 Days in Chūgoku & Kyushu – Day 08 – Hiroshima – Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum was established in 1955 to document the atomic bombing of the city on 6 August 1945. In truth and for decades now, I’ve had conflicted feelings about the allied bombing campaign over occupied Nazi territory

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