Our return flight back to Sydney from Osaka suffers an interruption in Cairns.

Kinkaku-ji’s golden pagoda, the tunnels of red torii at Fushimi-Inari Taisha and the Gion district.

Travelling from Matsue to Kyoto via Okayama in a landscape changed by snow. We lose something along the way.

A day catching trains around Shimane and trudging through the snow.

with trains and buses cancelled we walk around Matsue in the snow and explore the castle.