If you are an onsen aficionado, you definitely need to visit Kyushu. Oita and Kagoshima are ranked #1 and #2 in Japan for having the most number of hot spring sources so you can expect a long list of renowned onsen resorts (Beppu, Yufuin, Kurokawa, Kirishima) to choose […]
We’d heard there is snow to be seen, even in the throes of summer. The Daisekkei 大雪渓 beckons, a 3.5 km snow & ice corridor stretching from the belly of the mountain to the summit (with a vertical span of 600m). It is the main reason why many hikers are […]
the typhoon wrecked all my plans. maybe it was fate. i saw it coming but i didn’t expect it to come all the way to hokkaido. days earlier, we watched on tv how it battered kyushu and brought massive rain to the southern regions. but hokkaido was bright and sunny, that […]
if this is hell, i dont need to go to heaven …
