旅の聖域は失われた——修行としての放浪と逃避としての旅

In this episode, I reflect on how travel has changed over time. Once, leaving Japan meant risk, uncertainty, and the possibility of never returning. Travel was a kind of spiritual training — long buses, lonely dorms, missed connections, silence, and growth. Today, cheap flights and smartphones have made travel easier and lighter. We plan, book, upload, and move on. Yet something deeper remains: the urge to escape, to breathe, to search. Even if we do not “find ourselves,” the act of seeking has meaning. Travel may have lost its weight, but the journey inside the heart is still long and real.