Tag: island

The end of the rural island era is coming

I was supposed to only be here for 2 or 3 years but the universe had other plans. My pre-launch blog post shared how happy I w

Cycling in rural Japan – Nishinoshima

It’s been a while since I made one of these adventures in nature. I went to a rural island nearby to enjoy cycling in Ja

Video: Goodbye Spring, Hello Summer

For a few weekends in late May to mid-June, I grabbed my DJI Pocket 2 and Fujifilm Instax SQ6 for some therapeutic walks to en

Japan Scene 11: I can’t swim!

Doraemon has been finally set free (I am told) but it seems I was been enslaved in a different sense when I somehow forgot tha

Ghost of Tsushima – adventure game set in medieval Japan

I’ve sunk at least 15 – 20 hours into the PlayStation 4’s latest (and last?) exclusive – Ghost of Tsus

Hashima Island Documentary

For almost 100 years the coal mines on Hashima Island off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture played an important role in the dev