More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Headed up to Kaze no Kuni, our local hot spring resort in the mountains nearby for a free kagura festival. Its a great venue for...

Tauebayashi It was great weather last weekend so I took advantage and went and visited the local Tauebayashi, rice planting festival. It...

Last weekend I was visiting the priest at Takuhi Shrine on Nishinoshima in the Oki Islands. I was intrigued by the print of Fudo Myo han...

The Kikuya Residence is a large complex of buildings from the Edo Period belonging to the Kikuya Family in the old castle town of Hagi, ...

Following a miserable and rainy fourth day, day 5 was back to glorious weather. I didn't have too far to walk today, just from Yahat...

Misasa in Tottori is a famous hot spring resort in the middle of the prefecture not too far from Kurayoshi. Several bridges over th...

A very small temple in an urban neighborhood just north of Nogata, temple 16 of the Kyushu pilgrimage seems to have only been founded l...

Sogo is a department store in downtown Hiroshima. The building also houses the Hiroshima　Bus Centre. The exterior of the buildin...

In the north of Nogata in the village called Ueki, I came across this small Hiyoshi Shrine, one of about 4,000 branch shrines of Hiyoshi Ta...

Located next to the Makino Botanical Gardens in the south of Kochi City, the 5 storey pagoda of Chikurinji was built in 1980 to replace ...