More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Mukade Caught this little bugger yesterday crawling across my floor. In japanese it is called Mukade, which means "100 legs"...

On May 28th 1905 the Russian ship Irtysh ran aground on the Shimane coast just off the fishing village of Waki (now part of Gotsu). The vill...

Driving from my place to Iwami Ginzan, which I used to do regularly a few years ago, you pass through the village of Mihara, and as one is d...

The Kunibiki Messe is a large convention and conference center up in Matsue. Kunibiki means "land pulling", and refers to an ancie...

The grand torii on the road leading to Izumo Taisha, often called the second most important shrine in Japan, and often claimed to be the old...

Following an email conversation about old schools in Japan I dug out this photo. Its the Fukiya Elementary School in northern Okayama Prefec...

By mid-morning the fog had melted away to reveal a glorious spring day. By now the canal was busy with pleasure boaters. They move at about ...

Went up into the mountains to a village named Asuna for their matsuri that features large Hanakasaboko. All I have time to post right now is...

This is a follow on post to this earlier one. After Hawkesbury Junction the Oxford Canal begins. Soon the canal passes a hug sub-station of ...

Up in the mountains not far from here is the Iwami Ginzan World Heritage Site, and the village of Omori is a large part of it. Pretty much j...