More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Monday, March 24th, 2014, and I take the first train out of Sasebo heading north. The sun comes up as I am approaching Hizen Nagano from whe...

  Friday, March 7th, 2014, day 65 of my walk around Kyushu and a wonderful sunrise. I spent the night at a minshuku right on the water's...

  Sunday January 5th 2014. Day 56 of my walk around  Kyushu on the Kyushu  Pilgrimage.  This will be the last day where I base myself in Ku...

It was cloudy when I woke up on the third day of my walk along the Aki Nada island chain in the Inland Sea in Hiroshima, but it was s...

One of the delights of walking pilgrimages in japan is that you need to get up before the sun and head out. This means you get to see th...

Shirahige Shirahige Shrine is located on the western shore of Lake Biwa in what is now Shiga. It is home to one of the famous "floa...

For the 4th day of my walk around the Kunisaki Peninsula in northern Kyushu, I spent all day exploring the castle town of Kitsuki. I s...

heading south out of Saiki, my next stop would be Nobeoka, and I had a couple of choices of route. Probably the prettiest would be the c...

Iwami Kannon Sunday 16th December 2012, and I begin my third day walking the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage with Mount Sanbe silhouetted  inlan...