Nice to meet you. I write about small trips, and I'd love to hear about yours. Let's swap notes.
やあ！みなさん、Awamiと申します。色々情報交換しましょう！
Trips, food, flying — anything. Come and talk to me. 旅の相談も、パイロットの話も大歓迎。どんどん情報交換しましょう！
I'd like a lot more friends. Give me a shout and I'll fly over. 友達いっぱい欲しい！呼ばれたら飛んでいくよ！
I watch baseball at Koshien and my MLB team is the Astros — but I'll always turn up for the two Japanese players. What I found was fifty thousand people all enjoying the same game separately.
ドジャースファンじゃないけど、由伸と大谷は応援したい。一丸にならない5万人と、日本から行く人向けの費用と足の話。
Shiga is the prefecture everyone drives past on the way to Kyoto. No headline temple, no neon. It's also where I'm from, and every time I come back I think the same thing.
誰もが京都へ行く途中で通り過ぎる県の話。蓮と、朝の気球と、もう閉まったかき氷屋さん。
No tours, no hikes, no must-see list. A loco moco in Ala Moana, a twenty-minute walk to the lagoon, and free fireworks at eight on a warm Friday night that somehow felt like a Japanese summer.
観光の予定をゼロにした一日。ロコモコと、歩いて20分のラグーンと、夜8時の花火。かかったお金は全部で$35。
I've landed a plane about five thousand times. Two, maybe three of those were genuinely good. This is how a kid who couldn't hold a straight line ended up in the left seat.
5000回着陸して、会心の出来は2、3回。まっすぐ飛ぶことすらできなかった落ちこぼれが、25年かけてここまで来た話。
An introduction. Two kinds of trip end up in the same notebook, and I think they belong together.
自己紹介の記事。空から行く旅と、地上を歩く旅。同じノートに書いてる理由。
A tower, a sailing ship, some bricks, and a really good bowl of wonton noodles. One hour, no itinerary — the in-between hour is where the good stuff lives.
集合まで1時間あいたので、地図も持たずに歩いた。タワーと船とレンガと、雲呑麺一杯の話。
空の側から
Places I reached because of the job, and what they looked like on foot.
地上の側から
Hometown streets, small restaurants, and trips with no itinerary.
Why this exists
I'd like people from other countries to come to Japan and end up liking it.
I'd like people here in Japan to read something and think — maybe I should go abroad for a bit.
And more than either of those: I'd like you to see your own country the way it looks from outside, and come away liking it more than you did.
Mostly, I'd just like to end up talking to a lot of people.
外国から来た人に、日本を好きになって帰ってほしい。
日本の人にも、読んで「ちょっと外国に遊びに行こうかな」って思ってほしい。
それより何より、外の国から見た自分の国を、前より好きになってくれたらいいなと思う。
そして、たくさんの人と関わることができたらいいな。
そんな思いで作ってみたブログです。
Free
Planning something in Japan? Message me — free, no appointment. “I haven’t decided anything yet” is a fine place to start.
日本の旅の相談、無料で乗るよ。まだ何も決まってなくてOK。
Free
You don’t have to be trying to become one. “I wanted to be a pilot as a kid” is a perfectly good opener. Free.
なりたい人じゃなくてもいいよ。「昔なりたかった」「あれ面白いの？」くらいで気楽にどうぞ。無料。
Shop
Limited-edition pieces picked up on layovers, listed one at a time. Mostly gone within a week.
レイオーバー中に見つけた限定品を、少しずつ出品しています。
Anything you want me to look for? Something from Japan you can’t get at home, or something abroad that never made it here — tell me and I’ll keep an eye out.
なんか買ってきて欲しいものある？ 日本から持ってきて欲しいものでも、海外で見かけたやつでも。あったら教えて？