More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Coming into the outskirts of Ikeda on day three of my walk around Shodoshima I saw a curious stone structure up ahead. At first I thought ...

  The Mito Peninsula extends out to the south of Shodoshima Island towards Shikoku. In fact, the southern tip of the peninsula is, I believe...

  Early on my third day walking the Shodoshima Pilgrimage I visited a small group of temples in close proximity to each other. Temples 24 to...

  Boxing Day, December 26th, 2015, and I set off on the third day of my walk along the Shodoshima Pilgrimage. Its another glorious day of bl...

  The view from the top of Kankakei Gorge, which  is located roughly in the middle of Shodoshima Island. It is considered one of the Top Thr...

As I was climbing up towards the first mountain temple on the Shodoshima Pilgrimage I spied ahead of me what I guessed was a kind of shr...