Before the monkeys of Nagano, we were as you might know (if you read the blog or my twitter account;) in Tottori Ken. Tottori is the birth place of my wife so through the past years I have been there quite often, and I know it more than most of the Japanese! For people in Japan, Tottori is often known as the place where there are dunes (sometimes called the Japan desert !! o_O), and others who have interest in ski or trekking for example will know Daisen (大山 : The Big Mountain).... Read more

I still have a log of photos from my holidays taken few weeks ago. Today let's go to Nagano prefecture. We stayed at a pension near the Myôkô-Kôgen station (about 15/20mn by car). Been still autumn, no snow yet in the area. Getting out of the megapole Tokyo-Yokohama was quite refreshing I must say. The family pension was close to a golf course and ski pistes (ski season starts in late December if I don't mistake). A on the map below. Here is the... Read more

First I want to apologize for the last 15 days without any updates here. Thing is, my wife and I got our wedding ceremony the first of November. I talked about this already a little bit last year (if you want to know the whole story ;) Anyway for once I will share something more personal than usual. Indeed as we chose to do the ceremony in a Shinto Shrine (Ogamiyama Jinja) in Daisen (Tottori Prefecture), I guess it could interest some of you. The plac... Read more

These photos were taken during August and at the beginning of September, this is a last taste of summer 2009 (right now (1:45 AM) we are in a middle of a typhoon, heavy rain ... worse forecast is expected tomorrow morning just when we go to work...Gambarimasu! ). I sorted the photos by themes this time : City : Shots taken after a day at the office in Shibuya. Time to relax with a beer and yakiniku for the salary men. Sometimes we can find some graffiti in Toky... Read more

I am currently enjoying the Silver Week in Tottori Ken. My only connection to the Internet is my iPhone one so even if I can use the tethering (non officially supported) function with my Mac to surf the web, I won't upload dozens of photos through this channel, so this a light article... That said I've some articles in preparation and as soon as I'll be back in Yokohama I'll upload them. For now I can just show few shots that sum-up my week for now : We are in the countryside.... Read more