Japan is known as the “land of the rising sun” (a phrase derived from how the characters in the Japanese name mean “sun-origin) but did you know there were places you could go where the Sun doesn’t appear to rise in the east and set in the west but instead appears to bounce? As some people know, if you go far enough north the sun doesn’t go away for much of the summer months.  In fact, if you go up towards the Arctic Circle there is a period of about 6 months where the Sun ne

Japan is known as the “land of the rising sun” (a phrase derived from how the characters in the Japanese name mean “sun-origin) but did you know there were places you could go where the Sun doesn’t appear to rise in the east and set in the west but instead appears to bounce? As some people know, if you go far enough north the sun doesn’t go away for much of the summer months.  In fact, if you go up towards the Arctic Circle there is a period of about 6 months where the Sun ne

Japan is known as the “land of the rising sun” (a phrase derived from how the characters in the Japanese name mean “sun-origin) but did you know there were places you could go where the Sun doesn’t appear to rise in the east and set in the west but instead appears to bounce? As some people know, if you go far enough north the sun doesn’t go away for much of the summer months.  In fact, if you go up towards the Arctic Circle there is a period of about 6 months where the Sun ne

Japan is known as the “land of the rising sun” (a phrase derived from how the characters in the Japanese name mean “sun-origin) but did you know there were places you could go where the Sun doesn’t appear to rise in the east and set in the west but instead appears to bounce? As some people know, if you go far enough north the sun doesn’t go away for much of the summer months.  In fact, if you go up towards the Arctic Circle there is a period of about 6 months where the Sun ne

Japan is known as the “land of the rising sun” (a phrase derived from how the characters in the Japanese name mean “sun-origin) but did you know there were places you could go where the Sun doesn’t appear to rise in the east and set in the west but instead appears to bounce? As some people know, if you go far enough north the sun doesn’t go away for much of the summer months.  In fact, if you go up towards the Arctic Circle there is a period of about 6 months where the Sun ne