More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Route 34 runs roughly East-West along the lower slopes of the southern side of the conically-shaped Kunisaki Peninsula in Oita, Kyushu. At...

Kannabiji Temple's Gingko It's that time of the year when I post some pics of this year's autumn colors. About three weeks ago ...

Hachimanyama Kosenji Temple is at the eastern end of the Ebino Valley in the higjlands around the Kirishima Montains in Miyazaki. It is ...

Located at about 450 meters above sea level, Taisanji is the first of the bangai temples on the Shikoku pilgrimage known commonly as Ohe...

By lunchtime of my first day walking across the Kunisaki Peninsula I was approaching the foothills and the valley I was going to follo...

2 weeks ago we took a drive up into the mountains near where Shimane and Hiroshima Prefectures meet. We were heading for Hikimi Gorge to see...