More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Mukai-an Temple Christmas Eve, 2015, was fast drawing to a close, and I still had three more temples to visit on the route back to my ryokan...

  December 20th, the 48th day of my first walk around Kyushu and I left Yamaga to head down to Tamana. First stop was the burial mounds muse...

At Sogi Falls in the mountains of Kagoshima around Isa City the fall colors were in full swing. A big park is there and that was where I...

425 meters above sea level, Mount Kannomine is the highest point on Osaki Kamijima Island in the Inland Sea off the coast of Hiroshima. ...

The weather was improved on my twentieth day walking around Kyushu. It was a long day but filled with sights. The route hit the coast a...

Friday, February 22nd, 2013, my 13th day walking around Kyushu and my route takes me pretty much downhill back to the coast at Usuki. Th...

While the coastline on the evening cruise was impressive, the trip was times to coincide with sunset at Candle Rock. Rising about 2...

At various times in my life I have lived in places where I could view either the sunrise or sunset. For some years before moving to Japa...

At the end of a very long first day of my walk over and around the Kunisaki Peninsula I stopped for the night on the banks of the reserv...