More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Mount Bishamon is the 177 meter high mountain that forms a headland into Hakata Bay. The okunoin, inner sanctuary, of Seiganji Temple down...

  Daihoji, the 44th temple on the Sasaguri Pilgrimage is a Koyasan Shingon sect temple located just below Narufuchi Dam. It was previously k...

  Early March, 2014, and on day 64 of my walk around Kyushu I walked from Nagasaki, up the coast of Omura Bay, to Nagaura, stopping in, as u...

  Shofukuji is the 4th of the Chinese temples built in Nagasaki during the Edo Period. Like  nearby Fukusaiji Temple, it is not located in T...

  Seisuiji Temple is a small place up in the middle of what used to be the silver mine in the World Heritage Iwami Ginzan sites. It is numbe...

Kumadaniji Temple 熊谷寺 The Tahoto, two-storied pagoda, at Kumadaniji Temple. Built in 1701, it is an Important Cultural property of Tokushima...