More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Rokusho Shrine was once a part of a powerful temple-shrine complex in the high country near the centre of the Kunisaki Peninsula, but is n...

  I came down Mount Kurokami along a walking trail and as it got closer to the base passed though an old, Hizen-style torii, indicating this...

Ema 絵馬 Votive plaques, called ema in Japanese, were originally paintings of horses given to shrines with prayers. Nowadays they are most...

Tonoe Shrine sems to be the major shrine of Moji in Kitakyushu, but it is overshadowd by an elevated expressway under which you must pas...

Taga Shrine in Nogata is the main shrine of the area and when I visited just before the new year they were getting ready for the influx o...

Located right on top of Mount Wakasugi at about 660 meters above sea level, the maps and many people call it Kitayama Shrine, but it i...