THE JOURNAL

What we write down when we get home.

Travel notebooks, hand drawn maps, and now and then a rant about guidebooks made of plastic. A new piece roughly every three weeks.

Three days without a phone on Yakushima.
NOTEBOOK · MAY 2026

Three days without a phone on Yakushima.

And what we lost along the way.
How we choose a ryokan.
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NOTEBOOK · MARCH 2026

How we choose a ryokan.

or rather, how Hiroko-san chose for us.
Mori-san's prewar kissaten, 47 years on.
NOTEBOOK · FEBRUARY 2026

Mori-san's prewar kissaten, 47 years on.

We went back a third time.
Momiji: why October is too early.
NOTEBOOK · NOVEMBER 2025

Momiji: why October is too early.

And why we now plan for November.