More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  In October 2009 the Russian sail training ship Nadehzda was making a courtesy visit to Hamada Port and was open to the public Walking back...

Tadaji, an old temple in the hills outside Hamada has a rather strange collection of wooden statues in their main hall. They were f...

Decided to take a break from the interminable sequence of garden chores that go along with the rainy season here and took advantage of...

Lines of red torii placed so close together they form a tunnel are a common sight throughout Japan. The most famous and most photograp...

This is an artists impression of what Hamada castle would have looked like. It no longer exists as it was torched by the Lord of the castl...

The eighth, and what turned out to be the last, matsuri for me in October was at Sano, a village up in the mountains behind Hamada. It was m...

Here in Shimane we have more museums and galleries per capita than any other Prefecture bar one. This may partially be due to the continued ...

Went back to the Hamada Childrens Art Museum to see the second part of the art project involving 53,00 handkerchiefs. The hankies have been ...

The Hamada Childrens Museum of Art ( without 53,00 hankies ) opened 1n 1998. Its located right next to Shimane University on the hillside ov...