Off the beaten paths in Japan: how I find these places

 I created this blog, hoping to build a bridge between Japan and others, Japanese and other people, whether travel or work or study. 

I have read and seen blogs and videos of the same topic. So I have to creative, because otherwise it will be one of these blogs. And it can be very boring. 

For those who don’t know me, I am Japanese, born and grew up in central Japan, living in northeastern USA. My wife is an American. And I am a nurse in Japan and the US.(I guess there aren’t many Japanese male nurses working outside Japan). We have 2 kids. We are homeschooling. 

I have weird academic degrees: associate degree in nursing, bachelor in German, master in cross-cultural education. 

And my tendency is that, when everybody goes on one direction, I go to the other direction. 

Anyhow, from these background, I am figuring out what I can do and what I can offer. 

I consider the foundation of my Japan travel is central Japan, specifically Aichi, Gifu, Mie, southern and central Nagano and western to central Shizuoka. And I did travel to 36 prefectures. When I was a teenager, I always scored high in Japanese geography. With these, I wanted to become either a journalist or a travel agent. However, whatever happened, I became a registered nurse. 

My sources of information are 1) my experience, 2) careful research with videos, website reviews and google maps(sources will be cited), and 3) local friends’ and SNS info, based upon Japanese and English languages. I do sometimes check other language sources such as Chinese, Korean, German etc.. 

On my blog, I will use significant number of images from Google map and its street views. 

let’s see where we go…😉