More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Just after crossing from Takeo into Ureshino I reached the place I had made a 15 kilometers detour to see, the Ureshino Hihokan. With a la...

Statues along the Hita Kaido One of the subjects I focus on finding as I walk the roads and lanes of Japan is sculptures. On my walk along t...

  Located on the bank of the Kuma River, Shibatatehime shrine, as the suffix "hime" suggests, enshrined a maiden. As the sculpted ...

Mount Kannomine, 425 meters above the sea on Osaki Kamijima in the Inland Sea, is the highest poinbt on the island and where I chose to ...

One of the things I am on the lookout for while I wander the back roads of rural Japan are fertility shrines. Many of them, like this on...

This is the third and final post on Mara Kannon. The first post showed the thousands of small, votive phalli left at the shrine. The ...

The shrine is located in a residential area not far north of the main train station in Matsue, and while it is an Inari shrine there are non...

Asuka Nimasu Shrine in Asuka, the ancient capital of early Japan is a very old shrine and is one of the possible sources of the name of Asuk...

Hokora are small roadside shrines found all over Japan. Often the doors are closed, but sometimes they are open and one can see the...