Musings

Izumo Taisha Shrine in Matsue is regarded as Japan’s oldest shrine and also the country’s second most important. Like some of the other small towns I’ve visited in this country, there is a main street that leads up to the

As is tradition for this conference series, the fourth day of the conference routinely features an optional day tour of the local sights of the host city. Interestingly, even though the conference saw several hundred attendees, the number of participants

The conference I attended in Matsue city comprises three full days of presentations and talks, followed by an optional fourth day that takes attendees around selected sights of the prefecture. More on that in the next post! In the mean

I just realized that I haven’t actually said much about what this work trip is about and where we’ve been. For posterity sake, as always, here’s what the 14 day trip entails: Day 01 to Day 04: Arriving via red-eye

My first place of stay this 14 day work trip to the cities of Fukuoka, Matsue and Osaka. This is a four star establishment in Fukuoka, and – coincidentally – roughly opposite Royal Park Fukuoka Hotel that I stayed in

While planning for our year end trip this December again to Japan, the wife mused that next year, we really should be going to other places. I was a little amused by that: there’s so much left to still see

My first post-pandemic overseas work trip, and a fairly long one at that even: 14 days in Japan and the cities of Fukuoka, Matsue, and Osaka. Given the length of this trip, I didn’t apply for extensions before or after