My memories of Nagasaki remain set in the fog and pouring rain of a dark December weekend back in 2000. Especially dark as I drove most of the day up from Miyazaki Prefecture where I was living to visit a friend in hospital there. I remember spending a long time driving around trying to find […]
Continuing our journey up the coast past Fukui reaches the province of Ishikawa and its capital Kanazawa City, a medieval coastal town that was once the “other Kyoto” with rich fabrics, luxury goods and highbrow culture from the ancient capital. Travelling there three years ago with family before the arrival of the direct shinkansen service […]
Nestled in the mountains at equal distance between the northern cities of Akita and Morioka, Akita Prefecture’s Tozawa Lake is an unlikely place for fully automated driving. But it is now the Japanese government’s first designated location for open-road fully automated driving tests. During the first tests back in November 2016, the test vehicle travelled […]
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