More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Kawamoto is the next town up the Gonokawa River from my village. Halfway up the steep hillside across the river from downtown Kawamoto is ...

Disappeared Japan Rural Temple Haikyo Nine years ago while approaching Iwami Ginzan while walking the Iwami Kannon pilgrimage I explored t...

Awaji World Peace Kannon This is the first of an occasional series of posts I plan on things I've seen that have now disappeared. Havin...

After spending the night near Kirishima Jingu I headed south on my 28th day along the Kyushu Pilgrimage. Pretty much all downhill, my fa...

Actually this isn't the poison gas factory itself, but rather the power plant that powered the poison gas production facility. Most of...

Coming into Kawahira I stopped in to explore the old abandoned school There are hundreds and hundreds of abandoned schools in the countrysid...

Halfway up the side of a mountain, miles from anywhere, literally clinging to the side of the mountain. we came upon an a small abandoned Lo...

I first came across this abandoned shrine on a walk around Nagahama about 7 years ago. 25 year old maps still showed a shrine here, so it ...