More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  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...

  Matsubase is a small town in Kumamoto that I reached in the afternoon of my 45th day walking around Kyushu. Matsubase Shrine is the main s...

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

As I wander around Japan I notice that some areas seem to have a lot of shrines, and in some areas they are far less common. In the area...

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...

Sada Shrine, located north of Matsue, was once the most important shrine in the Izumo region. Enshrined in the central honden are 5 kami...