More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  While on my walk up the right bank of the Gonokawa River to its source I took a side-trip when I reached Shikaga to once again visit Kanno...

  A little over a kilometer further upstream from the main part of Kawagoe village and bridge is another sizable settlement. Called Watari o...

  After leaving the riverside fields of Tazu, the road heads about half a kilometer sandwiched between the forest and the river until the la...

  I begin the second leg of my walk up the Gonokawa River to its source from my home. I live on the other bank to the one I am walking up. M...

  Walking up the right bank of the Gonokawa, Kawahira is the first main inlet coming into the river. From Kawahira the road heads into the m...

  At the far end of Tanomura, the almost-deserted settlement on the right bank of the Gonokawa River, is a small shrine hidden back where th...

Around the Next Bend This is the 5th post in my new series that explores the Gonokawa River, the longest in West Japan, as I walk up the rig...