In nearby Matsue, we visited the impressive castle completed in 1611 (and one of twelve remaining nationwide), and the ascetic but elegant home of Lafcadio Hearn, an iterant nineteenth century journalist who penned “In a Japanese Garden” for The Atlantic in July 1892, among many articles.įollowing a scenic drive through the mountains and a ferry ride, we arrived on the island of Naoshima, home to the Tadao Ando-designed Benesse House Complex, which includes a modern/contemporary art museum and hotel, both of which house impressive suites of Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs. A short drive to Yasugi is the location of the Adachi Museum with astonishing viewing gardens created in 1970 by a local businessman, it’s been ranked the number one garden in Japan for the past fourteen years. Birnbaum, 2017ĭays later in the Shimane Prefecture, participants explored Izumo, home of one of the country’s oldest and most important shrines (dating to the early eighth century), and soba noodles.
Raked gravel and moss, Adachi - Photo by Charles A. Also on the dance card, the newly opened museum dedicated to the work of Katsushika Hokusai (known for the “Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji”) the Tokyo National Museum and the Nezu Museum, the latter the former home of the president of the Tobu railway company and some group retail therapy at the Nuno Works fabrics warehouse.
Destinations included: Rikugien Garden, which means “six poems garden,” built circa 1700 the city’s most famous Shinto shrine located in a 200-acre park and dedicated to the late nineteenth century emperor who opened Japan to the West and the vast East Gardens of the Imperial Palace, which is ringed by imposing stone-walled moats. The adventure kicked off at the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, home base in Tokyo, where it’s 35 th-floor breakfast room offered dramatic views of the city’s skyline and iconic Mount Fuji in the distance. The trip was expertly organized and deftly curated by Susan Gullia of ProTravel International, who has been visiting Japan since the late 1970s, and led by the affable, unflappable, and very well informed guide, Izumi Tamura. Background, left: Rob Haimes and TCLF Board Co-Chair Joan Shafran. Foreground: TCLF Stewardship Council Member Raymond Jungles and friend at Matsue Castle.
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