Back in 2015, I spent about two weeks travelling from Morioka in the North of Japan via the slow and picturesque local train network back down to Tokyo. After experiencing the seafood and beef delicacies of Sendai, I wove my way through the mountainous interior on the Flower Nagai railway line before branching west towards […]
Headed north from Akagi Kougen and then continuing along the Sea of Japan, in three to four hours you’ve arrived in Tottori where a consortium of tech companies are showing the way in what could be an end-to-end self-driving logistics system for automated buses. SB Drive, a subsidiary of Japanese IT conglomerate Softbank created as […]
Just to the northwest of Tokyo is the prefecture of Saitama, conveniently connected by multiple lines of public transport into Tokyo, and where a good portion of Tokyo’s working population calls home. Rural Saitama was where I was for two months during my very first trip to Japan in the summer of 1996, staying at […]
