YAMAGUCHI | Walkable issue

PAPERSKY #72
YAMAGUCHI｜Walkable issue

 Yamaguchi Prefecture, once known as Choshu and Suo, has many paths that many people have traveled, including Hagi Gogo and Akama Seki Kaido, from the common people to patriots from the end of the Edo period. What will we see by walking along these historical roads? What are the benefits of walking?

In this issue,“Walkable”With the theme of the theme, the main historical highways are located in Yamaguchi, Hagi and Nagato. 3 You will walk around the towns with keywords such as cafes, alcohol, pottery and hot springs. Travel guests are2024Year'sNY Times of"2024 Should go to the year 52 Craig Modo, who chose Yamaguchi in "Location." When you visit, you will be greeted by a city guide who lives in the city. While enjoying the encounters of walking, we will learn about the historical greats of the land that connects the past and the present, and explore the depth of culture unique to Yamaguchi Prefecture, including recreating the "synthesis of Shinto and Buddhas" in modern hot spring resorts.

Craig Mod ／Craig Mod

Authors, photographers, walking travelers. Born in Connecticut, USA.2000He has been living in Japan since 2019. Written and photographed based on Kamakura and Tokyo. He has written many other books including "Books of Our Times." "Random House, a major US publisher,THINGS BECOME OTHER THINGS' published.

Trail Learning: Walking as a Way of Being

This entire issue was made on foot. Welcome to the YAMAGUCHI ‘walkable’ issue — devoted to our favorite activity: Walking.

To listen with your feet. To see your feelings. Trail Learning is fieldwork in motion — part travel log, part quiet philosophy — where observation becomes induchy. Along the way, you learn from the land’s shape, stories held in the rocks, and your fellow trail mates. You meet new people, culture, trace history — and begin to understand a place not from above but from within.

In this issue, we walk through Hagi, Yamaguchi City, and Nagato — three towns that reveal themselves slowly, one walkable step at a time. For this issue, invited my longtime friend Craig Mod to join me. Craig, a walker and photographer, recently spotlighted Yamaguchi in the New York Times “52 Places to Go” list. Now, as we walk out of the spotlight and onto the trail — exploring Yamaguchi and the Hagi Okan in bursts of trail-learning delight and receiving far more then we seek.

Happy trail to you.