Category Archives: Travel

On Climbing Mount Fuji (With a Fear of Heights)

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Eryk Salvaggio

About 300,000 people a year climb Mt. Fuji. A handful of them die. Very few of them get panic attacks from standing on porches. I’m acrophobic: Seven feet high and I’m nervous. Higher up I get dizzy; at 30 feet … Continue reading →

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On The Bullet Train | 新幹線

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Eryk Salvaggio

Maybe the Shinkansen, Japan’s cross-country bullet train, is only interesting until you’ve ridden it. I was ecstatic to take the Shinkansen on a trip from Fukuoka to Tokyo. It’s a 14-hour drive by car achieved in a little under 5 … Continue reading →

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On Abandoned Ski Resorts in Japan | 逃散

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Eryk Salvaggio

I spent Halloween on top of a mountain in Oita Prefecture at a 3-star resort hotel in an otherwise abandoned resort complex surrounded by rice paddies, a ski slope overrun by weeds, two empty minimalls, a locked-up bowling alley and … Continue reading →

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On Japanese Insects

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Eryk Salvaggio

A guide to the idiosyncratic wildlife found behind my house. Continue reading →

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On Flying, 2 | 航空二

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Eryk Salvaggio

Three hours into a 14-hour flight to Japan and already going to the bathroom is an event. Continue reading →

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On Flying to Japan | 機上

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Eryk Salvaggio

My flight is a 16-hour long marathon from Boston to Newark, NJ (Why not?) and then a straight shot to Narita International Airport in Tokyo, where it will be a 2 hour flight. Continue reading →

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