We happened across a boardgame cafe and they had Viticulture! I'd been curious about it for a while, but wasnt sure on buying it because it looked pretty complicated. Had to quit playing halfway through since it was closing time but I decided to buy it 😆

Had a really lovely hike to Mt Mitake, on the western edge of Tokyo. I came right at the peak of the autumn leaves, so all the trees were looking so beautiful 🍁 I've been doing a lot of hiking this year to mountains that are quite far away, so it was nice to get back to something more local.

Are we still doing starter packs? Put this one together because I love seeing things that lovely folks write on the internet, and I'm sure there are more people to meet and add to this list. go.bsky.app/AnM2t7r

Managed to get absolutely perfect weather for this hike! www.emgoto.com/mt-kita-and-...

New post up - www.emgoto.com/mt-azuma-kof... A hike in Fukushima with some pretty cool views

New week, new post! www.emgoto.com/japanese-mou...

My monthly newsletter is out - I'll admit I'm feeling a bit social media'd out and I sort of want to quit my newsletter + Bluesky altogether 😅 I want to stick out the newsletter until the end of the year at least! open.substack.com/pub/emgoto/p...

A 2 day hike to Mt Hiuchi and Mt Myoko - my 60th and 61st hyakumeizans (only 39 to go!) Turned out to be a pretty foggy hike, but managed to dodge most of the rain so I’m happy! www.emgoto.com/mt-hiuchi-an...

This week's post is some book notes on Slow Productivity www.emgoto.com/slow-product...

New hiking post up! www.emgoto.com/mt-kurobegor...

Happy September! open.substack.com/pub/emgoto/p...

www.emgoto.com/itoigawa/ Had some big hiking plans, but it got rained out so we visited the beach instead - it's nice to take it a bit more chill sometimes!

www.emgoto.com/happo-pond/ A quick hike up to Hakuba's Happo Pond.

Last weekend Japan had a 3-day weekend thanks to its "Mountain Day" public holiday - unfortunately it was a bit of a rainy one, but managed to sneak in a day hike up Mt Amakazari www.emgoto.com/mt-amakazari/

New post up! From my hike up Mt Echigo-Komagatake last weekend. www.emgoto.com/mt-echigo-ko...

This week I've been featured in Manu's People and Blogs series! Super honoured to be listed alongside 100 other great bloggers 🎉 manuelmoreale.com/pb-emma-goto

Happy August! emgoto.substack.com/p/newsletter...

This week's post is a bit of a throwback to 2 years ago when I climbed Mt Yake - a nice mountain to hike if you were interested in visiting Nagano's Kamikochi area. www.emgoto.com/mt-yake/

I went hiking for a second week in a row - this week to Mt Makihata. Weekly hiking feels a little hectic once you factor in the travel time, but July and August is peak hiking season so I gotta squeeze in as much I can 😂 let's see how the weather holds up for next week. www.emgoto.com/mt-makihata/

Went hiking to Mt Jonen this weekend! I've been keeping a streak of 1 post a week all year, managed to finish this post in time to keep that streak going 🫡 www.emgoto.com/mt-jonen/

This week's new post - a quick overview of my camera setup, plus a couple of comparison pics between the Fujifilm and iPhone in case you were curious! www.emgoto.com/hiking-camer...

Happy July! Last month I took a trip back to Australia and in some exciting news, have joined the team at @hardcover.app 🎉 open.substack.com/pub/emgoto/p...

www.emgoto.com/kyushu-hikes/ New post up! I'll be candid and say that this post is more for the SEO than anything else (hehe), but Kyushu is a pretty underrated place to go for hiking 🙌

Back in Australia for the week 🇦🇺

This week's new post is a book note - I don't write too many of these on my blog but I quite liked Flow when I first read it a number of years ago and thought it was worth the re-read www.emgoto.com/flow/

Starting off my 2025 hyakumeizan hikes with a trip out to Mt Ena - this one is number 53/100. Hoping to get somewhere into the 60s this year!

New post up and gosh, this one was harder to write than I thought! But I've been meaning to write this one for a long time now (and procrastinating on it) so I'm happy I finally got it done. www.emgoto.com/japan-best-h...

My monthly newsletter is out!

My final hike in Switzerland, in the little mountain town of Les Diablerets. This one was super quiet - I had the entire mountain to myself. I'll stop spamming y'all with Swiss hikes now, it'll soon be back to my regular Japanese ones 😂

New achievement unlocked? 😅 good thing it's nearly the end of the month!

🇨🇭 Rochers de Naye The summit was still covered in snow, but luckily the trail up was all snow-free. I was also just in time for the blooming of the narcissus flowers, also known as Montreux's "May snow", which I got to see on the hike up. www.emgoto.com/rochers-de-n...

The third of my Swiss hikes was actually in France!

So the silver lining of waking up at 3am from jetlag is it makes it really easy to blog a lot! Here's my second Swiss hike 🇨🇭

I'm back from Switzerland, and woke up at 3am today thanks to jet lag so I figured I may as well do some blogging 😂 here's my first hiking post.

First blog post with my Fujifilm! www.emgoto.com/mt-futatsuzu...

Blog UI update ✨ I was getting a little bored of my homepage, so I added in little preview images to the left of each post. I've also added links to my book reviews and photos on the home page.

I'm currently in Switzerland 🇨🇭 We spent the first couple of days in Lucerne. Got a bit unlucky with the weather on some days, but still managed to squeeze some hikes in which I'm planning to blog about when I get back!

A new hiking post! The views of Mt Fuji were a bit hazy, but still an excellent hike.

Procrastinating on writing by doing UI updates to my blog - added a new breadcrumbs component that pops in as you scroll down the page. I feel like my blog is a little confusing since it has so many sections, so I'm hoping this makes it a bit more clear which section each post is in

It's Japan's Golden Week holiday! I'm taking some time off, but have my next two blog posts queued up and ready to go thank to Github's auto-merger 🫡

This one had been sitting in my drafts for a while - I couldn't quite figure out how to structure it - but I suppose it's partially advice, and partially talking about how I write on my blog.

From my recent hike to Mt Futatsuzuka (a little mountain half-way up the side of Mt Fuji), and my first time with a Fujifilm camera! Still trying to figure out what to do with all the photos, the file sizes are so big. Send help 😂

Can't believe it's already May - here's what I've been up to this past month.

Seeing growth on my blog is nice, but I'm also watching the bandwidth usage go up like 👀 Luckily I'm still only using 50% of Netlify's free tier, but I wonder what's a normal amount of bandwidth for a site to use? (I also use Cloudflare CDN which is caching a fair bit too).

Taken from my hike on the weekend to Mt Odake and Mt Onigadake 🗻

A little fun fact about me - I work a 4-day work week!