Japan Sea to Sky Tour
11-24 August 1999

This year I was able to spend two weeks in Japan, and went from below sea level to the heights of the Japanese Alps:

• Getting ready
  Planning and packing
• Fukue, Goto-retto
  On the Road: Infrastructure Dividends | Miiraku Matsuri: A Ji-biki-ami | Fukue Beaches |Onsen (Hot Springs) | Scuba diving | Obon Rained Out!
• Fukuyama
  A bus tour: Bridges | Citrus Land
• Osaka
  Expoland | Game Centers
• Nagoya
  Another bus tour
• Tateshina, Nagano-ken
  Alpine meadows | Is this Japan?
• Japanese Television
  Some programs I saw | A relative?
• Random Observations
  Fashion and other thoughts