This is the first in what I expect to be an ongoing collection of snapshots. There are plenty of incredibly high-performance (and, reciprocally, incredibly low-performance) cars roaming the streets. If only their existence here wasn’t pure irony, with standard 50km/h speed limits and 100km/h max on the expressway. If you are caught at over 120km/h [...]

My co-workers told me it was a rare site to see snow on Kaimondake. This was taken around 7:30AM on the way to Nejime. When I looked out of the window at school around 9, the white peak had disappeared.

This was a particularly active day for Sakurajima. I first noticed the a massive cloud of ash being redirected south-east as I drove to work around 7:30.

An ominous cloud approaches.

In this shot, you can really appreciate the distance this stuff travels and the volume that is produced…

The city was blanketed in ash nearly all day [...]

Hello!
Sorry for the overwhemling gap between posts. Writing in my journal AND on this site during the trip proved to be too time consuming. I had a few drafts, but nothing worthy of a full post. I will be going back through day-by-day and recounting all of the steamy and scandalous events of the past [...]

Guess I’m ready!

Here is our Itinerary:
May 6: Arrive at Narita, Tokyo overnight
May 7: JR to Kagoshima, Kyushu overnight
May 8-11: Ferry to Yakushima, explore Yakushima (!)
May 11: Ferry to Kagoshima, JR to Hiroshima
May 12: Hiroshima & Miyajima
May 13: Hiroshima, JR to Kyoto
May 13-16: Kyoto
May 16: JR to Mt. Fuji, stay overnight near Fuji-san
May 17: JR to Tokyo
May 17-19: [...]