Gardens, Parks, Nature 
Kanazawa, Japan: A city devoted to ART(0)
Where else but in Kanazawa is there a giant brass teakettle to greet your arrival at the super modern train station? ART is written in capital letters everywhere you look in the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture. In fact, I compare it to Florence, Italy, where ART is also part of its historical heritage and daily [...]
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Japan: The artistry of straw
The country and culture that has given us Ikebana – that ever-so-sophisticated art of arranging flowers – has also created an artful way of keeping trees and bushes from falling apart under the weight of snow. When you consider, that every one of these trees is wrapped and strapped by hand twice a year – [...]
Japan: Endless views of Mt. Fuji
Fuji-san (as the Japanese reverently refer to their iconic highest mountain) is like a little child – it demands attention: I am here, I want you to look at me, pay attention to me, to my moods, to my cloud hat, to the sun’s rays as they caress my cake-frosting top, to the wind as [...]
Japan: Totorri sand dunes
When you think of Japan, sand dunes and beaches are not the first thing that come to mind. And yet, they do exist! Tottori, a small city on the West Coast, can boast to being the home to Japan’s largest sand dunes, stretching an impressive 10 km along the coast, at times up to 2 [...]