Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Kagoshima Day 2

 The next day in Kagoshima, we visited Sengan-en. It is a beautiful garden and the old house of an important Japanese family. Again, we could see the volcano from the garden. I guess it's not a bad place to build a house!

Saturday, 17 January 2015

Sakurajima


We were lucky enough to have another three day weekend, so we visited Kagoshima in Southern Japan. Kagoshima is famous for black pork (which we ate), shochu (which we drank), and Sakurajima: an incredible active volcano. 

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Koyasan in the Snow


SJ came to Japan, again! We visited historic and religious Koyasan once more, and were delighted and surprised to be greeted by snow!  Click here to read my earlier entry.We also just bought a new camera, so it was fun for us to play around with all the settings and figure it out. Do you think these pictures look better than the ones before?