solo travel

Travel Walks: Miyajima and Itsukushima Shrine (November 2025)

An hour's queue for anago rice, a low-tide Itsukushima Shrine with mysterious rows of timber, and the noh stage on the sea. A solo stroll around Miyajima that ended with a new ambition: to see Funa Benkei performed right there.

2025.11.24

Travel Walks

Travel Walks: Miyajima and Itsukushima Shrine Route Map (November 2025)

From anago rice at Miyajimaguchi to Itsukushima Shrine at low tide and an okonomiyaki finale. A photo route map tracing my walk, spot by spot.

2025.11.24

Travel Walk Route

Inujima Seirensho Art Museum (November 2025)

On Inujima, a tiny stone fragment on my palm looked like an island in the Seto Inland Sea. Quarry stories from the guided tour, the island magic that turns fallen things into art, and a lemon squash to finish: a solo island stroll.

2025.11.06

Museums

Chiharu Shiota’s “Memory of Lines” on Teshima (November 2025)

A room filled with red thread that made me gasp. Chiharu Shiota's "Memory of Lines" on Teshima, seen at the Setouchi Triennale 2025 - 37 km of thread woven around old noodle-making machines, a little frightening and impossible to look away from.

2025.11.06

Museums