Asia Travel Journal

Asia includes a lot of diverse countries, from parts of Russia and Turkey, to India, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, and many more. I’ll probably get to see only a small subset of them in my life. This category page links to all of the posts from all of the Asian countries I visited after I started this travel journal. Entries on visits to cities and towns in Asia appear under a category page for their respective Asian country.

(I visited only one country in Asia before starting this journal, Japan. I loved it and hope to get back, so don’t be surprised if some entries from Japan pop up here at some point.)

Ginkaku-ji Temple and More

Yesterday, I didn’t finish writing my morning post about Kinkaku-ji Temple, et. al., until late. So, when I started writing my afternoon post, about Nijo...

Coming to Kyoto

I arrived in Kyoto after a three-hour Shinkansen (high-speed rail) journey from Adawara Station (the closest Shinkansen station to Hakone). I’m already having second thoughts...

Gora Park and 2 Museums

Today, my last day in Hakone, I spent the afternoon in Gora Park and two museums, the Hakone Museum of Art and the Hakone Museum...

Hakone Open-Air Museum

This morning was an art morning for me in Hakone, Japan. I started at the Hakone Open-Air Museum and didn’t get beyond it until after...

Journey Back to Gora

After I finished my sightseeing on Lake Ashi this morning, it was time to take the ropeways and cable car back to Gora station. I...

Lake Ashi

Yesterday, I mentioned that I bought a pass that gets me on five modes of transportation in the Hakone area. I told you about four...

Hello, Hakone

So, this is new. On my previous, and so far only other trip to Japan, in my Pre-Blog Era, I didn’t visit Hakone. But here...