✍️ Desk of Amy Suto: A Writer's Day-in-the-Life in Kyoto, Japan

Samurai training and what it's like to write and work remotely from Kyoto, Japan.

Happy Wednesday! Today, ✍️ From the Desk of Amy Suto paid subscribers will get an exclusive issue about…

✨ A day in a writer’s life in Kyoto, Japan

🧪 The daily routine working for me here

📚 What it’s like to do Samurai training in a real dojo

🇯🇵 A Perfect Writer's Day-in-the-Life in Kyoto, Japan

“I will not be working remotely from Japan if I can’t climb atop a misty mountain to meet a samurai master who will personally train me in the art of the katana,” I told a friend before this trip. “If I’m not being schooled in the art of controlling my mind and levitating by the time I leave, I have failed.”

While no misty mountains have been scaled (yet!) I did end up training at a real dojo with a samurai master and his students — mission accomplished!

In this post, I’ll share what a Tuesday in a writer’s life looks like in Kyoto, Japan:

7am. Waking up in a traditional Japanese home. I wake up in the room I share with my partner in a traditional Japanese home in Kyoto, Japan. Our house has cute tables with floor chairs and soft lighting. I’m traveling with a big group of digital nomads (some of whom are staying in a house with us!) and I’m the first one awake today. Most nomads are working nights, but as a writer I can work whenever I want. I get dressed in cozy yoga clothes and head to my yoga studio.