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September 2025
A day exploring Japan's legendary drift circuit on foot. Classic Mini meeting, MX-5 gathering, open drift sessions, hidden forest tracks, car graveyards, and the raw JDM paddock culture that makes Ebisu unlike anything in European motorsport.
Summer 2018
Pre-dawn photography from Horikoshi Pass. Night scouting, sleeping at a Michi no Eki, a 4am wake-up, and one of Japan's most spectacular unkai moments as the castle emerges from a sea of fog.
Summer 2018 / Summer 2019
One of Japan's Three Great Gardens. Garden workers sweeping streams at dawn, Basho's haiku carved in stone, golden koi, and 25 acres of perfection maintained by invisible hands.
2018 / December 2022 / July 2023
A Ghibli film that became real. Twenty thatched gassho houses in a valley where you walk like through a temple. Three visits, and the magic hasn't worn off.
August 2023
The sat-nav suggested a mountain road between Hakusan and Gokayama. It turned into one of the best drives in Japan. Volcanic shelters, mountain monkeys, and JDM sports cars on a pass nobody talks about.
July 2023
National Route 292 over Shibu Pass. 2,172 meters of volcanic terrain, abandoned resthouses, fumaroles on the mountainside, and a stone monument where cyclists catch their breath. The highest any national road goes in Japan.
August 2023 / November 2024
Sleeping in the van at Kujukuri Beach. Waking up to sunrise, surfers paddling out at dawn, and the sound of waves on concrete seawalls. A regular overnight stop on the Pacific coast.
August 2023 / October 2025
Walking the full length of Japan's Bridge to Heaven. A 3.3 km pine-covered sandbar, sword-testing stones, and a mountain temple with views across Miyazu Bay.
November 2024
A day on Japan's sacred island. The floating torii at high tide and low tide, deer everywhere, a Shinto wedding, and a sunset that made the crowds disappear.
November 2024
Standing at the edge of Japan's largest active volcano. Crater steam, moonscape hikes, concrete bunkers, an evacuation, and a sea of grass swaying in the wind.
November 2024
Japan's southernmost point on the mainland. Dramatic cliffs, a jungle shrine, Scottish lighthouse ruins, and the feeling of standing where the road finally stops.
July 2023
Japan's Daytona Beach on the Sea of Japan. 10 kilometers of driveable sand, a campervan at the waterline, and iced lattes at 30 degrees by 7am.
October 2025
A floating temple pavilion on stone pillars in Lake Biwa, ancient pine trees leaning over the water, and a view that looks like an ink painting.
September 2025
1,015 stone steps through ancient cedar forest, monk graves in sandstone cliffs, and a valley panorama worth every drop of sweat.
September 2025
I.M. Pei's architectural masterpiece hidden in the mountains of Shiga. A copper-clad tunnel, a suspension bridge over a gorge, and ink paintings of Lake Biwa.
July 2019
Walking the ancient post road between Edo and Kyoto through the Kiso Valley.
July 2019
Rain, rice fields, and thatched roofs. Why the best photos happen when most people put their cameras away.
December 2022
Meters of snow, warm window lights at night, and the workers who keep 250-year-old houses alive through another winter.
September 2025
140 cars from every era and continent. Bugatti, Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, a US Presidential limousine, the Hakosuka Skyline GT-R, and a Trabant hiding behind a BMW.
July 2023
Every machine that made Honda. From the 1948 motorized bicycle to the NSX-R, MotoGP bikes, F1 cars, and the Type R lineup that defined growing up in the 90s.
October 2024
Riding shotgun in a 600HP Nissan GT-R through Shibuya, across the Wangan expressway, and into the legendary Daikoku parking area.
November 2019
One of Japan's most charming coastal towns, where time seems to stand still on the Izu peninsula.
October 2019
230 funaya boathouses on a sheltered bay, a hilltop Michi no Eki, and the kind of place you keep coming back to.
July 2019
A vast moss-covered forest where a medieval city of thousands once stood. Bigger, quieter, and free - Japan's most underrated sacred place.
October 2019
Hundreds of stone figurines in a peaceful Hakone temple, each with their own personality.
July 2018 / Summer 2019 / August 2023
Three visits to Japan's ancient capital. Sacred deer with attitude, the largest wooden building on earth, and a zen garden where the crowds disappear.