Wasabi Guiding Service

27/02/2024

Kusama Yayoi Museum in Waseda, Tokyo, was founded by the artist herself. Her energy is overflowing.

22/02/2024

Museum of Natural and Environmental History in Shizuoka is a fun place not only for kids but for grown-ups. It is a renovated old school building.
Audio guide on smartphone is available in some foreign languages.
I liked the skeleton of a bat.
Cafe was quite pleasant, too. It used to be a library.

17/02/2024

Good morning, Mt. Fuji! She is beautiful with the snow white make-up. She was shrouded in the clouds later.
Fish market in Yaizu called Osakana Center is a fun place to enjoy sea food even for tourists. There are some casual restaurants. You can get some drinks and food and enjoy them at eating spaces here and there.
Coast line at Mochimune was quite nice, too.

15/02/2024

I wish I could send you this fragrance!
MOA Museum in Atami

08/02/2024

Hakone Open Air Museum after the snow! We were the first to enter. Lucky us!

06/02/2024

View of Gora in Hakone this morning (February 6).
Daimonji, big in Chinese character on the hill is like a stroke of brush in the white snow! Seems safer to drive, but be careful!

05/02/2024

Snow in Hakone! Cars started having trouble going up/down hills. You need tire chains. So beautiful, but it's a pity some gardens are closed.

28/01/2024

Visiting eastern Aichi is a special treat at this time because you can enjoy somewhat like spring in January.
Cape Irago was windy and the waves were rough. Toyokawa Inari is like an amusement park of olden times. Messengers of Inari deity, a loooot of foxes, welcome you.
I had pufferfish for dinner, but forgot to take photos. This very special delicacy requires cookig by licensed chefs, because some parts of the fish are deadly poisonous.

18/01/2024

I have long wanted to see this piece, pine woods by Hasegawa Tohaku. It is brought to the exhibition hall only in January, because pine is an auspicious tree (always green) suited to new year festivity.
It sure was a mysterious painting. Looks very rough from a close range and somehow very foggy and murky when you step back.

12/01/2024

A mystery on the street in Ueno, Tokyo today.
Who left these suitcases?

11/01/2024

A hiking trail on the west side of Lake Ashi is pleasant and peaceful. We walked from Togendai to Hakonemachi, and took a boat ride back. There are no significant ups and downs, but the distance is probably around 10 km. We spent about 4 hours including lunch/tea breaks.
There is Fukara water tunnel on the way. It is about 350 yrs old, but it still irrigates lake water to farm land in the west of Hakone.

wintertravel

10/01/2024

Hakone in winter!
Enjoyed this gorgeous view and hiked the historical Tokaido road partially with my guest. Moss garden at Hakone Museum was covered with pampas grass for protection from the frost, and I thought it was beautiful.

03/01/2024

Mt. Fuji view from Nekkan Road on Jan 1 2024 and Jukkoku Pass on Dec 30 2023

Izu is beautiful in winter.

06/10/2023

The first snow on top of Mt. Fuji this year, on October 5, 2023

12/09/2023

12/09/2023

Kurumayama Highland in Nagano, accessible by cars and ski lifts.
Mt Fuji was not visible, but this is a gorgeous belvedere.

10/09/2023

Yashimagahara Marsh in Kirigamine Highland, Nagano, was full of wild flowers. It was cloudy. Nice way to escape the heat in summer!
Walking around the marsh is about 1.5 hour.

08/09/2023

Enjoying museum on a stormy day