More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Kitakyushu Central Library The Kitakyushu Central Library is located in Kokura not far from Kokura Castle. It is one of those buildings that...

Arata Isozaki 1933 - 2022 The famous Japanese architect Arata Isozaki passed away on December 28th, 2022. Born in Oita, Kyushu, in 1933, he...

At several places around the Okinawan Islands you can ride in a cart drawn by Water Buffalo, but the most well known is I think the isla...

The former Prefectural Library in Oita City, originally constructed in 1966, was converted, under the direction of the original architec...

One of my favorite Japanese architects is Arata Isozaki. He was born in Oita in 1931 and after graduating worked under Kenzo Tange. ...

This is somewhat how I felt on the morning of my eleventh day of walking around Kyushu. After 2 days of miserable, grey, drizzly weather...

At the end of my fifth day of walking along the Kyushu 108 Sacred Sites Pilgrimage I was in Kokura, somewhere I had visited several time...

Following a miserable and rainy fourth day, day 5 was back to glorious weather. I didn't have too far to walk today, just from Yahat...

The third and final section of the unique museum in Nagi is called "Sun" and is basically a huge cylinder set on a north south ax...