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...

2019 Fall Colors On the second day I headed up the Saba Kaido, the old road that ran from Obama on the coast down through the mountains ...

Across from where Nobunagas Azuchi Castle once stood I climbed the mountain on my way to Kannonji, the penultimate temple of the pilgrim...

The first shrine building to be built here was probably built around the latter part of the seventh Century. For a brief period the “ empero...

Hiyoshi Taisha, also known as the Hie shrines, lie at the foot of eastern slopes of Mount Hie, in Sakamoto , Shiga Prefecture. It is a large...