Japan — April–May 2026

A small, slow record of a spring in Japan.

Tokyo to Kyoto to Osaka, with a notebook, a camera, and time enough to walk the long way round.

First Light, Haneda

Fourteen hours in the air, and then the soft blue of a Tokyo morning.

On the quiet east bank of the Sumida, a neighbourhood that keeps its own time.

A Shinkansen, a soft rain, and a city that rewards the slow walker.