http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/ Shizuoka Guide ja 2013-06-19T12:07:05+09:00 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=79 Overview of today: From a buffet breakfast with people in their blue and white yukata, I explore gold: as a mine, panned for, and drunk in coffee. Next is the brilliant red of the beni hoppe strawberry, soon staining my greedy fingertips. A farmers market ... 2010-11-01T09:57:31+09:00 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=78 Overview of today: After waking to the sea at my window in the morning at the Senoumi ryokan, I explore a series of spots that give a feeling for the daily life of the regular people who make Izu a special place. I chase cherry blossoms, admire an old hous... 2010-10-28T17:56:12+09:00 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=75 Overview of today:Today, I explore the arts: professional geisha dance in Shizuoka’s popular resort town of Atami, high art in the Museum of Art, and folk art with waterfalls of handmade little dolls of fabric. Early cherry blossoms struggle to hang on thr... 2010-10-21T10:31:25+09:00 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=74 Overview of today: A misty mountain morning of wet snow and hot coffee. The bus back down to Senzu station and a one-room steam train museum of love. Return to Kanaya station on a local ancient train past the end-of-winter scenery. To Yaizu station up the ... 2010-10-19T13:28:45+09:00 http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/t-diary/index.php?ID=73 Overview of today: From the Kodama #643 Shinkansen to Shizuoka station, changing quickly to the local for Kanaya station. …to the oldest steam powered locomotive in Japan, perhaps the only one! I have signed up for the Oigawa Railway’s “Winter in Sumata” p... 2010-07-22T09:50:38+09:00