Akira Nakanome was born on May 23, 1874, as the second son of Yasutomi Na-kanome, into a samurai family in Sendai. He graduated from the German Liter-ature department of Tokyo University with a great success in 1899 (Ishida, 2000: 46). Nakanome, studied at the University of Vienna under the famous geogra-pher A. Penck with a scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education in 1903 (Katayama, 2018: 239). Nakanome had the chance to observe the situation and geography of the Balkan Countries during his Balkan trip in 1906, when he was 32 years old. He made his trip between 2 July 1906 and 22 September 1906 and recorded the events he experienced in his diary. In addition, the Balkan Travel Additional Records consist of articles published by Nakanome in Japan’s Tohoku Newspaper, in which he wrote down his thoughts throughout his travels.