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Dragonfly Tours Japan Dragonfly Tours Japan is a family run business based in Japan operating small-group tours throughout the country.
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Love to wake up on a Sunday morning and find my favourite maple tree like this. It's been snowing solidly for over a wee...
22/02/2025

Love to wake up on a Sunday morning and find my favourite maple tree like this. It's been snowing solidly for over a week now, curious to see how it'll affect the Cherry blossoms.

A beautiful day at the beach today. The crowds were insane
08/02/2025

A beautiful day at the beach today. The crowds were insane

So, that's the whole seat up/ seat down conundrum resolved then.
31/01/2025

So, that's the whole seat up/ seat down conundrum resolved then.

Up in Gifu at the moment, let it snow!
30/01/2025

Up in Gifu at the moment, let it snow!

Some pics from a private winter tour in Tokyo at snowy Kinkaku-ji from our guide Moto-san. Fantastic, wish I’d joined t...
16/01/2025

Some pics from a private winter tour in Tokyo at snowy Kinkaku-ji from our guide Moto-san. Fantastic, wish I’d joined that one!!

Some pics from Shosei-en gardens. Just a short walk away from Kyoto Station (you can see the UFO parking tower in the b...
06/12/2024

Some pics from Shosei-en gardens. Just a short walk away from Kyoto Station (you can see the UFO parking tower in the background), a top spot to get away from the crowds for a while.

Some more photos of Kiyomizudera, Kyoto last week. The autumn colours were delayed this year due to the long dry summer...
04/12/2024

Some more photos of Kiyomizudera, Kyoto last week. The autumn colours were delayed this year due to the long dry summer; the leaves as a result are a bit dryer and less vivid than usual but looking spectacular none the less!

The mighty Kiyomizudera last Friday, Kyoto
03/12/2024

The mighty Kiyomizudera last Friday, Kyoto

The autumn leaves this morning at Tofukuji, Kyoto
29/11/2024

The autumn leaves this morning at Tofukuji, Kyoto

A photo from one of our private group tours up in Takayama, Gifu
20/11/2024

A photo from one of our private group tours up in Takayama, Gifu

Some pics taken by some of our guests on our Heartland Tour currently up in Koyasan! Fantastic leaves! Thanks guys!
20/11/2024

Some pics taken by some of our guests on our Heartland Tour currently up in Koyasan! Fantastic leaves! Thanks guys!

A pic from the guide on our Heartland Tour in Kurashiki
17/11/2024

A pic from the guide on our Heartland Tour in Kurashiki

A pic of our recent Takayama Tour, here at Nijojo in Kyoto. I was fortunate to be able to spend a few days with them – ...
31/10/2024

A pic of our recent Takayama Tour, here at Nijojo in Kyoto. I was fortunate to be able to spend a few days with them – another fantastic group to hang out with - one of the perks of the job!

Gift from guests (they've travelled with us a few times and know what I miss from the UK). I quit beer to lose a few kg ...
23/10/2024

Gift from guests (they've travelled with us a few times and know what I miss from the UK). I quit beer to lose a few kg and now have these tempting me - agh! Thanks guys!!

This is Gunkan Jima – Battleship Island is an abandoned island near Nagasaki. The whole island is around 480m long and ...
06/09/2024

This is Gunkan Jima – Battleship Island is an abandoned island near Nagasaki. The whole island is around 480m long and during its peak was the most densely populated spot on earth.

Coal had been discovered under the island back in around 1810 but without the tech and knowhow required, little was extracted until in 1890 with Mitsubishi took over. As the volume of coal taken out increased the population grew peaking in around 1960 when there were 5300 people crammed on the island, 6 times the density of Tokyo, this included whole families, kids and all. The burgeoning population on such a small space had been a head scratcher from the beginning for the management until in 1916, following a trip to New York and seeing how building upwards using concrete could be the solution. Management returned to Japan and decided to start building multi-levelled reinforced concrete buildings, the first in Japan.

As with all mines, the conditions underground were dangerous and, well, unpleasant at best. The miners were well paid however, three times we were told, of what the average salary was on the mainland. The coal extracted powered the industrial revolution in Japan until oil became a more practical source of power in the early 1970s. The island population decreased, the final residents left in 1974 as the plant was closed and has been left to the elements ever since.

In 2015 it became a World Heritage Site and today we can visit by joining one of the boat tours from Nagasaki.

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