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☆ Japan launches bullet train service to a region that 'guidebooks rarely mention'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Rob Goss | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Japan is launching a new high-speed bullet train, or shinkansen, extension on Saturday that will make an under-the-radar prefecture far more accessible to travelers. The new train will pass through the city of Fukui, the town of Awara and other places guidebooks rarely mention, before reaching the port town of Tsuruga, adding some 78 miles to the Hokuriku Shinkansen's existing Tokyo-to-Kanazawa service. A Geisha walks through a performance hall in Awara, Japan. The end of the lineThe new shinkansen service ends in the town of Tsuruga. Kehi-no-Matsubara in Tsuruga, Japan.

Persons: dino, Juratic, Dogen, it's, Buddhika Weerasinghe, Arief, Sugihara Chiune, Sugihara, Matsuo Basho Organizations: Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Zen, Getty, Humanity Museum, Mixa Locations: Japan, Fukui Prefecture, Tokyo, Fukui, Awara, Tsuruga, Kanazawa, Katsuyama, Kanaz, Suishouhama, Poland, Lithuania, Nazi

☆ Opinion: 17 syllables a day that are changing your lives
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Opinion Tess Taylor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —For me, writing a haiku a day began as a practice on my birthday, October, 2022. As my birthday rolled around that fall, the idea of writing a haiku a day was simply a way of promising myself that that day, I’d steady myself make note of — ha — just one thing. No matter the day, I was sure I could find a way to write down one sentence, one spattering of roughly 17 syllables. Tink Boord-Dill wrote in that liked that he loved writing haiku because it was daily creativity without performance pressure. Robin from Maryland wrote “the daily writing of seventeen syllables quickly created a rhythm to my thinking and even my walking….

Persons: Tess Taylor, —, Tess Taylor Adrianne Mathiowetz, Robert Hass, I’d, Basho, we’d, Tink, Dill, Elaine Questell, ” Carla White, ” Paul Nelson, Allen Ginsberg, Linda Neves, …, Candace Waldron, “, birdsong, — Linda Neves, Brad Taylor, Nancy B, — Philip Chan, Carolyn W, — Susan B, Karen Jacobs, Weren’t, — Stephen Schwei, Derek Thaczuk, I’m Organizations: “, CNN Locations: California, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Quebec, Bill, Alaska, Arizona, Guynn , Texas, Ohio, Derek Thaczuk , Ontario

☆ Can a Poem Be Too Short? It Depends on the Poem, and the Reader.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Elisa Gabbert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

I have a friend who says her favorite way to read poetry is in quotation, as isolated lines in paragraphs of prose, such as in this column. You can’t have a personal, favorite part, the way I have a favorite part of “Prufrock” (which changes over time). Some of what’s in “Little Poems” does have a one-and-done feel. Short poems can be facile because they are short — they’re not wasting much of your time, so get over it. It’s unsatisfying in the way of all short unsatisfying poems; the end of any poem is a reward, but bad short poems satisfy too soon.

Persons: Michael Hennessy, Julian the, John Keats, ” Ben Lerner, “ Prufrock, Shel Silverstein, Lawrence, Lawrence — Locations: Sappho, “, D.H

☆ How to put your best travel foot forward for Earth Day 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

But you don’t have to totally cut out travel or stay super close to home to be a good planetary citizen. You need a city that’s dedicated to getting it right to best enjoy an urban biking vacation. Here, we've curated 30 of our favorite corners, including the Thu Bon River, which flows through central Vietnam. A maze of rivers and caves, the UNESCO World Centre is defined by its craggy limestone facades and jade green water. Bruno De Hogues/Photodisc/Getty Images Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park: A UNESCO World Heritage, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is heaven for spelunkers.

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