More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

After coming down from my night spent on Mount Kannomine I started walking up the coast of Osakikamijima on my third day walking along t...

After crossing the Tatara Bridge the Shimanami kaido runs down the SE edge of Omishima. Omishima is the biggest of the islands on the ...

This is a follow on post from this earlier one.  The most striking thing about the inside of the gallery is the wooden lattice roof that r...

Located on the island of Omishima, just a few hundred meters from Toyo Ito's Museum of Architecture, the Tokoro Museum houses a collec...

The Steel Hut, along with the Silver Hut , make up the Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture. Unsurprisingly it was designed by architect Toy...

Silver Hut is a copy of architect Toyo Ito's home that he built for himself in 1984 in Tokyo. It won the Architecture Institute of Jap...

The Ken Iwata Mother & Child Museum opened a few months ago in the tiny fishing village of Munakata on Omishima island in the Set Inla...

Manhole Fruit Found this one outside of Yanai in Yamaguchi Prefecture . Not sure which fruit it is other than a citrus. Mito Town down in...