A pre-trip note for Kanazawa and Toyama covering the Reiwa era since 2019: through tram service across Toyama Station, the 2024 extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Tsuruga and the Hapi-Line Fukui, the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake and the Oku-Noto floods, messages of sympathy between Hokuriku and Taiwan after earthquakes, the return of Toyama–Taipei flights, the full reopening of the Kurobe Gorge Railway, and manga and anime from Nagai Go, Ima Ichiko, Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ, and 2.43.

A pre-trip note for Kanazawa, Toyama, and Komatsu covering 1989–2019: the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art and other cultural facilities, World Heritage status for Gokayama and National Treasure status for Zuiryūji, the Toyama Light Rail and municipal mergers, the Hokuriku Shinkansen reaching Kanazawa in 2015, flights from Komatsu and Toyama to Taipei, Mori Yoshirō, the Fukui floods, the Noto Peninsula earthquake, the Shika criticality accident, and people such as Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ, Fujita Yoshinaga, and Takita Yōjirō.

A summer family trip to Fenqihu, Alishan National Forest Recreation Area, and Shizhuo, with a stay at the Chunghwa Telecom Alishan guesthouse, rides on the Alishan Forest Railway, a walk from Zhushan to the Ogasawara Mountain Viewing Platform, the Shuishan Forest Therapy Trail, and a very early drive back to Taipei.

A four-day summer family trip from Changhua to Xitou and Sun Link Sea in Nantou, with the DOD PERRY WAGON's first outing, a long walk to the Xitou Astronomical Observatory, firefly watching in the rain, and a carsick ride home.

A spontaneous family stay at Fame Hall Garden Hotel in Longtan, Taoyuan, covering the room, the Toddler's Playroom, dinner at Parents Restaurant, breakfast, fish feeding, and how the hotel felt after another return visit.

A Taipei family activity at Suiye Farm where the kids learned about chickens, mixed feed, fed hens, picked eggs, and met retired horses.

After our summer trip to Baishawan, our daughter kept asking to go back to the sea, but somehow we ended up at YUN ESTATE HOTEL in Tamsui instead. The apartment-style room was spacious and the family facilities were solid, though a wrong dinner order and a midnight system reboot made the stay more memorable than expected.

Our daughter hadn't stopped talking about Songlong Waterfall since the first trip, so back we went. This time: the Yuehsan Trail, Tian-Ti-Yen, Chinglong Waterfall, and a stop at Yoshan Tea on the way home.