More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

The entrance to Ikura cave (Ikura-do) is at the base of a 240 meter high cliff along the Takahashi River. The cave is 1.2 kilometers long an...

The shrine is located in a residential area not far north of the main train station in Matsue, and while it is an Inari shrine there are non...

I really, really like this building, especially the windowless facade. From the side you can see that it is just a regular brick hotel build...

Yoko dropped me off about one kilometer upstream at my favorite overlook. I hung around for about 20 minutes hoping for the sun to break thr...

Woke up to a few centimeters of of snow this morning so took the opportunity to go for a short one hour walk...... Tomorrow I will post more...

Zuijin is the common name given to pairs of statues found guarding some shinto shrines, usually in their own gateways called zuijinmon. Zuij...

The St. Francis Xavier Memorial Church sits on a hill overlooking the town and harbor of Hirado on Hirado Island in Nagasaki Prefecture. Con...

My vacation was drawing to a close, so on my way back up to London to catch my flight home to Japan I stopped in to visit family in south De...

There are a lot of these spiders around the end of summer and into autumn. I cant be sure but I think its is a female Nephila clavata, a kin...