Musings

The conference I’m attending this week is hosted in Toyota City. The city is east of Nagoya and about an hour’s train ride away, and there seemed to be at least two different routes from Nagoya Station itself. The route

The work event I’m attending over these four days is hosted in Toyota City, about an hour by train east of Nagoya. Like many other built-up cities, there are hotels that are near the train station — Toyotashi Stn in

One of those things at work that I’m really grateful for is the opportunity to travel, and particularly to Japan, as it’s where an annual tech teaching and learning conference I’m involved in is routinely hosted. The conference has recently

The first of three hotels I’m staying at on this 10 day trip to Nagoya – Toyota City. There are a number of 3 star establishments on the west side of Nagoya Station with affordable room rates. The Via Inn

About a 20 minute drive — or a 7.6km walk if one is up to it — is Tsumago-juku, the next post town along the Nakasendo Trail after Magome-juku. Magome was busy, while Tsumago was, in comparison, much more laid

Many visitors to Nagoya would routinely try to find time for a day trip to the area’s post towns that lie along the famous Nakasendo Trail, an ancient samurai route that connected the old city of Edo (Tokyo today) to

Our second stop was about 50 minutes away from Eihoji Temple: a bridge located in Ena Gorge that crosses over the Kiso River. The bridge isn’t anything particularly different from other similarly styled high bridges over rivers, but it was

I have about three full days of free time – basically the weekends before and after the conference I’m attending again this year in Japan – so I set about finding things to do and explore in Nagoya. This is