Japan - Rolf Koizumi

Visiting an active volcano – Sakurajima

Sakurajima is Japan's most active volcano and while we were there, it was smoking all the time and on each day, we saw a gust of ashes rising into the sky. The port of Kagoshima with Sakurajima in the background.Kagoshima is the capital of its same named prefecture and

November 20, 2020 - 6 min read

Favorite crowded places – Fushimi Inari-Taisha

The Fushimi Inari-Taisha is a shrine in Kyoto which attracts masses of tourists with its thousands of Torii-gates, making it one of the popular Instagram spots — a place you want to avoid? I like Kyoto. It's a lively city charming with its many old temples and shrines scattered throughout the

November 10, 2020 - 3 min read

Lightroom Editing 2010 vs 2020

I was looking at pictures I took a few years back and found this one – one I really liked at the time and still am quite fond of. The picture was taken in 2010 on Miyajima near Hiroshima in Japan. At the time, I was travelling in Japan with the

October 07, 2020 - 3 min read

Preventing floods in Tokyo

The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (also called Gaikaku in Japanese) is just outside of Tokyo and was built to prevent floods in the area while heavy rain or typhoons. There are five huge underground tanks, connected via tunnel leading into this huge hall, which fills up when the

October 04, 2020 - 3 min read

Creating your own ink in Tokyo

If you like to write or draw using ink, you can create your own ink at inkstand by kakimori in Tokyo, Japan. Last year in Japan, my girlfriend wanted to spend her birthday doing something special – mixing her own ink colors to take home with her. She found this small

October 03, 2020 - 2 min read