More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Came across this skeleton of a young buck Sika Deer yesterday as I was hiking across the Kitayama Mountains at the western end of the Shima...

There was a spell of fine weather last week so I took the opportunity to go for a walk. My route was along the Shimanami kaido, a new 70k ...

Ochidani Shrine is at the far end of Ochidani Park a little to the south of Tottori castle ruins in Tottori City. There is a long approach...

Shimenawa, the ropes usually made of rice-straw though increasingly of plastic , are found in many places in Japan though typically at shr...

The Kuman shrine in Awa City is located about halfway between Anrakuji and Jurakuji, temples 6 and 7 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage. There are ...

As we approached the town of Kelaa M'Gouna it became more and more built-up. The floodplain of the river was green with trees and ir...

When I first visited Hiroshima City I could not find any manhole covers with interesting designs, but in the past year or so 2 new ones ha...

Located on the island of Omishima, just a few hundred meters from Toyo Ito's Museum of Architecture, the Tokoro Museum houses a collec...

The Shichifukujin, the 7 lucky gods, are very popular in Japan despite their being mostly "foreign" gods. On my little walk arou...

Kumadaniji means Bear Valley Temple and is located up a valley, though it is believed it was even further up the valley originally. Some d...