History and travel records

I had the opportunity to go to Niigata and toured the castle towns of Shibata, Murakami in the Kaetsu area. Both are experiencing a boom...

If you drive west on the Meishin Expressway, you will come across many historic sites that will make you want to get off along the way....

There are many hidden spots that are close by but that I rarely have the opportunity to visit, and I recently visited the homes of two...

Now that the expressways are connected, the quickest route back to Kanazawa from Tokyo is to cross Myoko on the Nagano Expressway and...

There are only 18 ancient stone monuments in Japan, but three of them (Tago Monument, Yamanoue Monument, and Kanaizawa Monument) are...

As I mentioned in the article about Yasukage Amano, the lord of Kokokuji Castle, I visited the ending place of Oguri Kozukenosuke in...

Suwa has good hot springs, and the sake is delicious, so I often stayed there as a stopover when driving back and forth from my parents'...

The area that was once called Hatara County in Musashi Province now consists of Fukaya City and Kumagaya City. Even so, Japan has largely...

I had never visited Izusan Shrine, where Yoritomo Minamoto and Masako Hojo met, so I visited it when I went to a hot spring inn in Atami....

Although it is a mild winter, it is still cold. The Kanto Plain has almost exhausted all the places I went on a sunny day, but there are...

Last year, I visited too early and the leaves were a bit noticeably green, but this year I was able to visit in the last week of...

At the time, we were acquiring large-scale shale gas development projects and frequently traveled back and forth to Canada. The town...

This is a story about Earth history, not Japanese history. I was once involved in a project to export Canadian shale gas, which boasts...

After staying at Wakura Onsen(hotspring) with my family, I went to Soji-ji Temple. Soji-ji Temple was relocated to its current location...

Kamakura is a place with a very rich history for the Genji clan. Yoriyoshi Minamoto, who was active in the Zen Kunen War, became Naokata...

As I wandered around the Kanto Plain, I noticed that there were many ancient tombs. I heard that there were more kohun(tumuluses) in the...

During the rainy season, I drove through Sanada Castle, which is located in the northern part of Kozuke(Gunma prefecture). I watched...

Yoshimasa Hojo(1243-1282) was the grandson of the regent(Shikken) Yoshitoki and rose to the level of cosigner as a court official of the...

If we are going to Chichibu by car from the West Tokyo area where I live, you have two options: either via the Kanetsu Expressway, or by...

Once we memorize incorrect information, we will often be embarrassed later on, but for a long time I believed that Kanasawa Bunko could...