More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Shizuma Shrine is on a small road close to the coast in Shizuma near Oda in Shimane. In earlier times it was located inside a nearby sea c...

  Isotake Port is situated in small bay protected by a headland. On the seaward side of the ports residential area runs a narrow beach. The ...

  Just a short walk past one small inlet after Takuno and I came into Isotake Port. Named after Isotakeru, one of the sons of Susano, the s...

  From the harbour at Nima , it is not far to Takuno port, with just the Nima beach, a small headland, and a small cove in-between. There a...

  Nima, a small town on the coast of Shimane is probably most famous nowadays for its unusual Sand Museum dedicated to the singing sands o...

  From Maji, the village that has Kotogahama Beach , to Nima, the next settlement up the coast, there is no coastal road and so the road ri...