More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Hiroshima is one of the better-known Japanese cities to people outside Japan because of its unfortunate history, but the city did not begi...

  Yukaen was a Chinese-style garden in Hiroshima. It was built in 1992 to celebrate the sister-city relationship  between Hiroshima and Chon...

  Japan is quite famous for the variety of brightly colored and diverse designs of its manhole and drain covers. I used to regularly post on...

Morikawa Residence Garden The Morikawa Residence was a "mansion" for a very wealthy merchant in Takehara on the south coast of Hir...

  Takehara is a small port on the coast of Hiroshima that grew wealthy in the Edo Period with the production of salt. It has a well preserve...

  Takehara is a small town on the coast of Hiroshima, east of Hiroshima City. It flourished as a port in Medieval japan when the Inland Sea ...