planting the fields 米を植える (tsukuba)

Posted by timothy sullivan (Tokyo, Japan) on 3 June 2009 in Lifestyle & Culture.

I find myself at times taking a random train line (one that I've never before taken) somewhere, just to see where it goes; and in doing so, I've discovered some of the neatest little places doing that.

When I was a language instructor, I would at times talk with students about my jaunts, and in doing so realized I'd ended up learning more about my local and greater environment than many (if not most) Japanese. (Which, as a foreigner, was indeed something of a curiosity to me.)

While I admit my motivating reason behind travel may be more out of capricious procrastination than anything else, I had wondered whether this thirst for adventuring to new places is in part due to my 'Americanness': to seek out new places and admire them. (After all, Japanese culture doesn't seem to have the concept of the 'Sunday Drive'...or the 'Sunday Stroll'.)

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