More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Kitsuki Castle Town Museum The Kitsuki Castle Town Museum is a spacious and modern three storey structure on one of the high bluffs in the s...

Kitsuki One of the new rules set up by the new Tokugawa Shogunate when they gained control of Japan following the Battle of Sekigahara in 16...

  I first visited Kitsuki in the second week of my marathon walk around Kyushu on the Kyushu Pikgrimgae, incidentally the longest pilgrimage...

Hitotsumatsu Residence in Kitsuki Sadayoshi Hitotsumatsu was a Ja panese politician who served as a cabinet minister in several of the firs...

Nakane Samurai Residence The castle town of Kitsuki in Oita is yet another of the small towns in Japan that have chosen to label themselves ...

  The small, castle town of Kitsuki in Oita is home to a preservation district of former samura homes from the Edo Period, several of which ...

  In the small castle town of Kitsuki in Oita there is a well preserved former samurai district with some of the Edo Period samurai residenc...

Kitsuki Samurai District West of the small castle in Kitsuki, Oita, is a well preserved samurai district. that is registered as a Preseervat...