Last month, my mother braved the summer heat to visit me in Tokyo, and after a few days, we set off on a five-day trip to Hokkaido, so I could show her some of my favorite parts of Japan that she hadn’t seen before. You can get to Hokkaido by plane, train, bus, and automobile (depending on your budget and how long you want the trip to take), but we opted for one of my favorite modes of travel: the overnight ferry. The Sunflower Ferry departs from Oarai (in southern Ibaraki Prefecture, about two hours from Tokyo), sails through the
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Susan Spann is the award-winning author of CLIMB (Prometheus Books, 2020) and the Hiro Hattori mystery novels (Minotaur / Seventh Street Books), featuring ninja detective Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo.
The Ninja Blog
Join me as I blog about Japan, my books, my travels, and all the things I see along the way!
To Hell & Back in Kyushu: Day 1 – TeamLab and Tyrannosaurs
Last weekend, I traveled to Kyushu (the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands) with my friend (and fellow author) Jonelle Patrick, for a four-day mini-vacation. I’d been wanting to head back down to Kyushu for a while, and this was a great reason to hit the road!
Read morePraise for the Hiro Hattori Novels & CLIMB
Spann keeps getting better . . . a taut closed-circle mystery with perilous consequences. Fans of classic whodunits will be pleased.
A tremendous reach into uncertainty amidst a cancer diagnosis, and ultimately her summits become a reward far more than the tops of the mountains she attains