More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

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...

This was a very difficult place to find. Located in the middle of a dense grid of narrow streets, none of which were named. It didnt hel...

Beppu in Oita styles itself "flower town" and is reflected in its choice of designs for manhole covers. A previous post can ...

Some places really make an effort with their manhole designs. Yuda Onsen in Yamaguchi with more than 30 different designs being an obv...

The Hachiman Shrine in the Asami district in the south of Beppu City is the tutelary shrine of the town, and was founded in the 12th Century...