Usha's Odyssey

While we were in Maizuru we had a car available for our use. So over weekends we used to drive around to interesting places. Our earlier...

After visiting the lake district we reached Hakodate by train. We had a doctor friend in this city. He received us and took us to our hotel.  In those days there was no Shinkansen trains available from Hokkaido to Tokyo. We stopped for an overnight  break as we were doing a long journey by train from Hokkaido to finally reach Narita Airport with a stop over to visit Toshiba factory on the way. All the trains went through an underwater tunnel and stopped at Aomori on the w

Our very first visit to Sapporo in Hokkaido was in 1995. Hokkaido is the Northern most island of Japan. We had gone there to attend a...

Amanohashidate is a pine covered sandbar that spans the mouth of Miyazu Bay in the scenic, coastal region of northern Kyoto Prefecture...

Boat Journey My first visit to Hokkaido was in 1995. Hokkaido is the Northern most island of Japan. We were going there to attend a meeting in Sapporo – Capital city of Hokkaido. On this visit all our internal travel was in slow motion. We didn’t use plane journey. We were in Maizuru, a port city, in Kyoto prefecture. We found that there was a ferry from Maizuru to Otaru, a port town on western coast to of Hokkado. We took this opportunity to travel by a ferry that goes ac

When we went to Sapporo, Hokkaido for the first time for a conference, our new friend from Maizuru had requested a local doctor in this...

We were going to Japan to attend a conference on Echocardiography. The conference was to be held in Sapporo, the largest city on Hokkaido island. Prior to going to Sapporo my husband was invited to teach Cinical Cardiology at a Municipal hospital in a small town called Maizuru on the North Japan sea. At this hospital there was a program to invite doctors to teach bedside clinical Medicine. All the visiting doctors were coming from USA. Our visit was at the recommendation of

JAPAN What took us to Japan way back in 1978 was a meeting of the World Congress of Cardiology in Tokyo. Planning our first visit to...