More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Located in Hidaka, a little north of Gobo, for 800 years this was known as Takaie Oji, but was renamed in early Meiji. It was one of the 1...

  As I walked into the outskirts of Gobo City in Wakayama I came across some abandoned railway tracks. A few minutes later I arrived at Nish...

  Wakanoura, which roughly could be translated as  Poetry Bay, is in the southern part of what is now Wakayama City. Where the Wada River an...

  Shioya Town, now art of Gobo City, lies on the southside of the Hidaka River on the West coast of the Kii Peninsula in Wakayama. The shrin...

  Yosuien is a large stroll-type garden in the Wakanoura area in the south of Wakayama City. It is considered one of only two major gardens ...