Fifteen Minutes by Bicycle to Tanoura Beach
A city beach fifteen flat minutes from Oita by bicycle — free parking, hot showers, beach wheelchairs, and a lot of wind in September.
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Suresh's Blog
Hi, I'm Suresh — a software engineer living in Japan. I write about the places I visit and what I take away from them.
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Ten Minutes of Fireworks at Kantan Port Park
A short dedication fireworks display over Nishi-Oita port, part of a shrine festival that is nearly four hundred years old.
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Walking Among Old Trees on Yakushima
An island of rain, moss and cedar trees that were already old when Rome was young.
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Sakurajima, the Volcano Next Door
An active volcano fifteen minutes by ferry from a city of 600,000 people, and it erupts almost every day.
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Onsen Hopping in Kurokawa
A small mountain village where one wooden pass lets you into three different outdoor baths.
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Karatsu Castle and the Pine Forest by the Sea
A white castle on the water in Saga, and a wall of pine trees planted 400 years ago to hold back the wind.
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A Little About Me
I've been working as a software engineer since 2022 — the last three years at an IT company here in Japan.
Outside of work, I travel. Japan has a way of putting an onsen town, a mountain trail and a quiet shrine within a few hours of each other, and I'd rather see those places than read about them.
Some of it is about code, most of it not.
For my work as a software engineer, see sureshsurkheti.com (opens in a new tab).