Robuta

Apr 10, 2025

Drumming as a proxy for moving through the world

Launching a documentary, conceptual walking

A beautiful kissa in Yushima, Tokyo is looking for a new owner

Alps diner, and 52 weeks of Ridgeline

It’s easy to flop through the world. To crawl a little more difficult. But walking (and walking well) demands complexity. Equilibrioception is a fine word,...

Oh god, another newsletter

Néojaponisme in Print

The globe turns and we do the same walk again

Kevin Kelly and my notes detailing everything we've learned walking and talking these past six years

A new book about Shōwa Tokyo

Some finishing notes on a successful tour of jazz kissas in northern Japan

A weekly newsletter by Craig Mod on walking, Japan, literature, and photography.

Thinking about sweaters and kissaten for UNIQLO

My talk from Figma's Config conference

An October walk and talk and a good few days in London

Going back to walk the Tōkaidō from Kyoto to Tokyo

The space between walks

Things seen on a little walk

An unexpected week of walks

Walking the Ise-ji for 15,000 words

A book about a long walk on the Kii Peninsula

Oct 7, 2025

Well, in Japan, charcoal — real, serious, gorgeous, perfectly proportioned, cylindrical, rings-like-a-chime when you clank ‘em charcoal — is still very...

Notes on a week of walking Venice, an incredibly beautiful city that feels totally cursed

Some shots from the production of Kissa by Kissa

The time has come to consider once again the long walk

Getting to the fourth edition of this book

A book about kissaten, and toast

What collisions happen in circumambulation? There is, of course, the 88 Temples circuit on Shikoku which takes one to two months to complete. Minor daily...

Hello from Yasuhara, Kitchen Arts & Letters

Soviet sanatorium, glaciers, surgeons, horse races

An electric bike ride to Ōiso

More notes on making a book from pizza toast

Notes on the ancient Japanese unit of distance measurement

Prepping for another thirty day walk

Planning 600km in December

A little walk across Tokyo thinking about just where this all goes

Walking from Shiojiri to Nakatsugawa

Looking at an Atlantic article from 1924, about one reporter walking from Tokyo to Kamakura immedidately following the great quake

Nov 13, 2024

Thinking about sentos and shrines and kissaten and their value

Walking through a post-typhoon darkness

Walking Japan in a 10 city blip

Some of my favorite episodes from my binaural podcast

Still walking, busy days

Getting on a plane for the first time in 28 months elevates the heart rate

Thinking about Jiro Taniguchi's seminal manga

Back in lockdown, back on the Ridgeline express

A few moments along the road in Japan

Went looking for a peaceful walk, didn't find one

A pop-up newsletter running from August 15-21, 2022

My general gear list for 2021

We're off, tomorrow

Heading out on the my pan-America Things Become Other Things book tour

Siphon coffee and repeated walks

Six moments on the Tōkaidō

The connection between walking and food

Apr 10, 2025

You'd think a buzz would be a buzz would be a buzz

We walked, we wrote, we photographed

Ultra-walker Ben tells us how he does it

Exploring the best jazz kissa of Tōhoku and Hokkaido

Jan 21, 2025

Things we say when flustered

We walked about 700 or so deliberate kilometers in 2023

Notes on a fabulous walk of the last 100km of the French Camino

Art islands and islands lesser known

Highlights from kissaten adventures in pizza toast

Notes on going on the Rich Roll podcast in LA in May, 2025

A short documentary on the production of Kissa by Kissa

Visiting Obama City and trying to figure out what makes a tourist destination tick

Considering life after a big walk

Tips for taking care of yourself on a long walk

A kissa from the Ise-ji

Announcing a new book of photographs, and an update from the booktour road

If you don't have time you can't be bored, and if you can't be bored ya might miss the good stuff

Which rules to keep, and which to throw away on a long walk

More responses to the SMS book

The key is simply — full days out in the world over thin days with the algorithm

Righting the lopsided with walks

A million steps in the year of COVID

An Update from Byron Beede on the Future of Battlefield

A long walk is a framework for monotonous improvement

When is a walk a hike?

Apr 10, 2025

So boring! Such wonderful!

Some of the people I met in Morioka

Can a walk be a protest?

Why I chose Toyama City for my 2025 New York Times 52 Places to Go city in Japan

Go for a walk in Shimane

Be a man, keep it in your pocket

A little-known path in Yamaguchi