More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

On the final day of my walk I found myself in Chofu, the old samurai town near Shimonoseki. First stop was the Chofu Garden, Though it...

There is a main road that goes the whole way to where I am heading to today but instead I choose to take the old Sanyo-do. Even though...

The promised rain arrived during the night and when I set off next morning it was a little showery, but luckily it soon stopped. My fi...

I woke regularly during the night, as one does when sleeping out, but no rain came, so as the first hint of light in the sky made its ...

The next leg of the walk was to take me inland into the mountains to the next pilgrimage temple at Kano. There is one main road that r...

The shortest way to get from Tabuse to Tokuyama is to take the main road which would also be fairly flat. However I know that would me...

Yanai 柳井市 My traditional Fall Color Walk this year was a long one, 7 days, as it coincided with the latest leg of my walk along the Chugoku...

I made an early start for the tenth day of this pilgrimage walk, and the approaching dawn heralded another glorious day of fine weather....

I'm off walking for a while with minimal internet availability so I will not be able to post, so I leave with a photographic inter...

Like almost every shrine I have visited in this part of Izumo, Iya Shrine has an altar to the land kami Kojin. Most shrines have one, bu...