On this episode of Japan Station, I talk to Maud Rowell, a freelance journalist and writer who spent a year traveling around Japan.

Topics Discussed

• About Maud Rowell
• About traveling around Japan as a person with a visual impairment
• About Blind Spot
• About becoming interested in Japan
• About getting a scholarship to travel around a Japan for a year
• About visiting Hachijojima (青ヶ島) and Aogashima
• About public transportation in Japan
• About tactile paving/yellow braille blocks
• About accessibility for the blind in Japan
• About doing the 88 Temple Pilgrimmage in Shikoku
• And much more

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Links, Videos, Etc.

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• Blind Spot - Maud Rowell: https://www.404ink.com/store/inklings-blind-spot
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/where.birds.wont.go/

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Full Show Notes

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