More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Yasaka Shrine in Arita is almost certainly much older than the most popular shrine in the town, Tozan Shrine. According to the shrine'...

  Ebie is a neighborhood on the bank of the Yodo River in Osaka, west of Umeda. Route 2 crosses the river here and this was the route I was ...

Tashiro Yasaka Shrine After leaving Ogori Hiyoshi Shrine I continued west along the old Nagasaki kaido and soon crossed over into Saga pref...

Yasaka Shrine This is  branch of the famous Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto that was known as Gion-sha, and is still referred to by that name lo...

Located on the hilltop above the stone buddhas of Motomachi and among several old temples is Yasaka Shrine. A branch of the famous Yasak...

By lunchtime of my first day walking across the Kunisaki Peninsula I was approaching the foothills and the valley I was going to follo...

On the afternoon of September 4th, 2011, I was approaching Byodo-ji, Temple 22 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage, when I spied a torii with b...

This is the start of the path that goes up to the top of Isari Mountain, near Yasaka, south of Hamada. We were told there was a shrine on to...

There is something quite magical in bamboo groves. I've been trying to capture some of it for years in the camera. You can't catch t...