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Having passed through some of the heart of Honshu – Japan’s main island – including stops in Nagano, Gifu, Kanazawa, and my favorite Japanese city Kyoto, [Free image from Pixabay.] we were nearing the end of our three plus weeks …

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In the interest of full disclosure, I cannot attest to the sequential accuracy of what I’ll term Hakone incidents two and three. I’m reasonably certain we spent two nights at the onsen ryokan and that incident two happened on the …

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Tokyo and Nagano but not Tokyo and Nagano. The featured cities in this section about Japan are Tokyo and Nagano but it’s one that will not really be about either. Here’s a little background on how I came to Japan …