More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  My first stop after coming down the mountain and reachting the wide open  plain around Itoshima was the village shrine in Takae. Located a...

  Karatsu Shrine is the main shrine of the castle town of Karatsu on the coast of Saga in northern Kyushu. It was moved to its current site ...

  Ono is a small agricultural settlement in the mountains between Takeo Onsen and Arita in Saga. The larger area is called Yamauchi, and it ...

  The steps up to Wakaura Tenmangu Shrine are steep and rough, but not as long as the stairs up to the neighboring Kishu Toshogu Shrine. Wa...

  Mid February, and the plum trees lining the approach to Uchida Tenmangu are about to burst into bloom. Tenmangu shrines often have plum tr...

Osaka Tenmangu Osaka Tenmangu is a large, quiet, shrine in the middle of downtown Osaka that is the origin of Osak's biggest matsuri, th...