As everyone knows, Kyoto is a great place to go and every guide book in every language piles up accolades for it. Kyoto is the obvious place to go if you’re into checking out historical wooden buildings and Rokkakudo has a certain unique feature that makes it particularly unusual and a must-see. In fact, you […]
JR Hitoyoshi – A Historic Drive in Kumamoto Prefecture
Few motorists ever get to the remotest areas of Kyushu and that’s too bad because some of the nicest country and friendliest people can be found there. I’ve often had discussions with my English conversation students at the Smith’s School of English in Kotoen スミス英会話 甲東園 about driving in western Japan. They are genuinely surprised to […]
Astronomy at Smith’s Kotoen スミス英会話 甲東園
Well this is what I call a planet telescope. It’s a Takahashi Mewlon タカハシ born and raised in Japan and made to the most critical tolerances. It rests upon a motorized Vixen GPD equatorial mount driven by servo motors running on 12V DC and guided by a Vixen Sky Sensor 2000 astronomy computer. Optics include […]
