More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Not far from the Unzen Disaster Museum is yet another memorial of the volcanic disaster from the early 1990's. A series of houses buri...

  Mount Unzen in the middle of the Shimabara Peninsula in Nagasaki is a collection of volcanic peaks that erupted in 1792 in what was the wo...

  Mount Unzen is a group of volcanoes in the middle of the Shimabara Peninsula in Nagasaki, Kyushu. The highest point is Heisei-shinzan at 1...

Mount Kaimon is often called the Fuji of Satsuma, for obvious reasons. It dominated my view for the whole of day 33 of my walk around Ky...

Sakurajima is the large volcano clearly visible across the water from Kagoshima City and a landmark of the area. It is the most active v...

Sanbe San is the name given to the highest point in Shimane, a cluster of 7 peaks. !,126 meters above sea level, I have only climbed it one ...

This is the draincover for the town of Oda, a fairly nondescript town close to the border between Iwami and Izumo. The mountains in the back...

Flying back into Japan on Wednesday I was able to get a few decent shots. This first one is somewhere in north Kyushu. Kyushu has a lot of a...