More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Yoshii Juku Historic Preservation District The last  post town on the Hita Kaido, or the first if you are leaving Hita and traveling west, w...

  The Yamabedo Culture Centre has a permanent exhibition on local festivals, puts on a variety of exhibitions and events, and serves as a ki...

  Sennenji is a Jodo sect temple located in Kusano, a former post town on the Hita Kaido east of Kurume. It is said the temple was founded i...

Hita Hita is a small town in Oita, close to the border with Fukuoka, and on the Mikuma River, which runs into the Chikugo River. The old par...

Statues along the Hita Kaido One of the subjects I focus on finding as I walk the roads and lanes of Japan is sculptures. On my walk along t...

  The Hita Kaido, the old highway that ran from Kurume to Hita, is also called yamanobenomichi, literally the road that runs along the edge ...

Japan Guide When I reached Tanushimaru along the Hita Kaido, another kind of statue, other than Ebisu,  started to appear, namely Kappa........