Kyushu

I get off the bus at Miyagi Station and begin my two-hour walk to the Asosan trailhead. I am well rested, my pack feels less heav...

It was my fifth day and mountain number two in Kyushu. Hitching a ride from an onsen in Beppu was easy and, soon enough, I was on...

Things we no longer use are tossed aside and called "trash." Yet among these abandoned objects, some things continue to have ...

You’ve spent the last couple of months cursing the heat and humidity, yet you can’t help but lament the passing of summer. As the...

Riverbeds, tabletop mountains, volcano rim touring—I had heard the rumors about the incredible mountain biking down in Kyushu. Th...

A methane-like pong wafts through the air. The pungent odor is in fact part of the attraction of Kyushu’s most elevated onse...

Budget travel in Japan? Impossible, you say? Think again. With a little planning and spending discretion, it’s entirely possible,...

The mountain of the day was Kaimon-dake, also known as Satsuma-Fuji, the symbol of Satsuma-hanto Peninsula. I had less than two h...