More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Thursday November 24th, 2016, day 39 of my walk along the Saigoku Pilgrimage, and I descended from Kannonshoji Temple in the mountains nea...

  While on my walk up the right bank of the Gonokawa River to its source I took a side-trip when I reached Shikaga to once again visit Kanno...

  Daisho-in is located in the small Teramachi near Karatsu Station in downtown Karatsu. These unusual statues are a complete mystery to me. ...

  Daihoji, the 44th temple on the Sasaguri Pilgrimage is a Koyasan Shingon sect temple located just below Narufuchi Dam. It was previously k...