More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Seiganji is now a small, non-descript temple at the base of a mountain on Imazu Bay, but it was easy to find because of the many cherry tr...

  Mitsugonji Temple is situated on the steep mountainside, surrounded by rice terraces, overlooking the town of Ikeda where the Yoshino Rive...

  The Kannon-do and Kaisan-do are the two structures above the main part of Sennyoji Temple. The Kannon Hall was built around 1880 and as we...

  Ryuzenji Temple is located in an urban area of Itoshima, the area to the southwest of Fukuoka City that was very powerful politically in p...

  Taisanji, temple 56 on the Shikoku Ohenro pilgrimage, is located in the rural outskirts of Imabari in Ehime. I  visited at the end of my 3...