More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Just a short walk from temple 20 Sanjo-in, and on the route to the next temple, I stopped in briefly at Komo Shrine. I had been her...

White snakes are considered sacred in Japan, and are mostly associated with Benzaiten. I posted before on some white snakes found at Iw...

Sanjo-in, temple number 20 on the Kyushu pikgrimage was a few kilometers outside of Nakatsu not too far from a major shrine, Komo hachim...

Located out in the rice paddies in Yokote, a village about halfway between Mount Futago and the coast on the east side of the Kunisaki P...

Fumon-in, number 19 of the 108 temples on the Kyushu Pilgrimage I was walking was very hard to find. Just after sunrise I walked al...

On the tenth and final day of my walk along the last leg of the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage I reached the last temple, Kegon-ji in Gifu...

The penultimate day of my walk was continuing on along the Nakasendo. The Post Town of Samegai was a pleasant surprise..... Out in ...

Across from where Nobunagas Azuchi Castle once stood I climbed the mountain on my way to Kannonji, the penultimate temple of the pilgrim...

Mid morning I reached Chomeiji temple number 31 on the pilgrimage, and it was a riot of color A little further on in Omihachiman at...

Day 5 started out with a short ferry trip across Lake Biwa to the sacred island of Chikibujima and the shrines and temples there. A...