Whilst watching the recent Disney+ TV show ‘Shōgun‘ I was surprised to hear the name of a familiar fishing village mentioned throughout the ten-part series. It is located a short distance north of our holiday home on the east coast of the Izu Peninsula but despite making dozens and dozens of visits to this region of Shizuoka Prefecture over the years we have never done anything more than pass through it without ever even thinking of going there. That changed on our most recent holiday but is it actually worth a visit?
The aforementioned TV series is the critically acclaimed adaptation of James Clavell’s epnoymous 1975 novel which was set in the complex period leading up to the turn of the 17th century. This historical-fiction is told through the perspective of English navigator John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) after he is shipwrecked off the coast of a humble Japanese fishing village called Continue reading
Tokyo Fox (東京狐) 