More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Shizuma Shrine is on a small road close to the coast in Shizuma near Oda in Shimane. In earlier times it was located inside a nearby sea c...

  Isotake Port is situated in small bay protected by a headland. On the seaward side of the ports residential area runs a narrow beach. The ...

  Shimane, on the coast of the Sea  of Japan has some fantastic clear seas and white sand beaches, and none better than around the Oki Islan...

  From the harbour at Nima , it is not far to Takuno port, with just the Nima beach, a small headland, and a small cove in-between. There a...

  From Maji, the village that has Kotogahama Beach , to Nima, the next settlement up the coast, there is no coastal road and so the road ri...

  Tomogaura is a small fishing harbour in a narrow inlet and is part of the Iwami Ginzan World Heritage Site. In the 16th century it was one...