More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Orochi Last night we went to Hamada to see the annual Orochi Spectacle. They close off the center crossroads in town and put on regular kag...

Ranking up there with a bullet train in front of Mount Fuji, a geisha in Gion, a tunnel of torii at Fushimi Inari, and sunset at the flo...

On my way out of town to walk upriver to Bungo Ono I passed through one of Oita's covered arcades. This one had a huge model of...

Early morning on my first day walking the Shodoshima Pilgrimage  and I came down out of the bamboo forest into the upper part of the lit...

Day 12 was going to be a long day, but I kept my room in Oita and would come back by train so I could walk the day without a heavy pack....

Coming to the end of my first day walking along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage and after spending a few hours walking down the banks of t...

Unlike the carvings on the gate at Yusuhara Hachimangu , the carvings on the Yasaka Shrine gate are cruder. Another big difference...

Dai Sekirinzan is at the northernmost point of the main island of Okinawa. It is a karst and geologists believe it to be the oldest part...

Located on the hilltop above the stone buddhas of Motomachi and among several old temples is Yasaka Shrine. A branch of the famous Yasak...

Founded in the 14th Century as a training monastery for Zen monks, Senpukuji is located on the west side of the Kunisaki peninsula. ...