More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Silver Hut is a copy of architect Toyo Ito's home that he built for himself in 1984 in Tokyo. It won the Architecture Institute of Jap...

Anrakuji, which can be translated as "Temple of Present Joy and Peaceful Death" is located in Kamiita Town and is now the sixth ...

The Black-eared Kite, Milvus Lineatus, is the most common raptor in Japan. In parts of japan it is called Tobi, but in my area it is calle...

Suzukayama is another hero versus demon piece based on a Noh drama. The hero is Sakanoue Tamuramaro who was given the title of shogun (ba...

The Warabekan is a huge museum located in Tottori City devoted exclusively to childrens toys as well as childrens songs and nursery rhymes...

Actually this isn't the poison gas factory itself, but rather the power plant that powered the poison gas production facility. Most of...

The Ida Hachiman shrine is only a couple of hundred meters from the Suwa shrine and like it it seemed fairly unused. There was no signb...

As with most mornings during our trek across the Jebel Sahro in southern Morroco I was out of my bag hours before the sun rose. I sat o...

Japan has about 30,000 kilometers of coastline. Much of it is covered in concrete, but many sections remain quite beautiful, especially...

These two draincovers are from Ise in Mie Prefecture and show pilgrims in the Edo period who descended on the shrines at Ise by their mill...