Tag: Japan
I met my first talkative local wandering Osaka looking for the famous Umeda Sky building.
You can find a lot of dead sea creatures at Tsukiji Fish Market but you wont find much whale meat.
The small coastal city of Joetsu on Japan's north coast highlights some of the problems facing modern Japan.
Earlier this year I tagged along with the Australian/International off-pissed ski team to the slopes of Myokokogen. Matt chose Myoko because the guidebook gave it four and half snowflakes out of five in the 'powder' category. Also because our plan called for us to go from there to Kyoto and then onto Tokyo and we wanted to make sure our itinerary doubled as a tongue twister.
The old capital of Kyoto is home to about 1600 temples and countless smaller shrines.
Beijing incorporates all of the contradictions of Chinese society.
Some incredible landscape photography from Japanese photographer Satoshi Minakawa.
In keeping with the last few updates on branding and Identity design I've scanned in some excerpts from this book of Japanese family crests and heraldry.