More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Michikajima, Michika Island, is a tiny, uninhabited island in the Seto Inland Sea. It is located between Hakata Island and Oshima Island...

Mount Kaimon is often called the Fuji of Satsuma, for obvious reasons. It dominated my view for the whole of day 33 of my walk around Ky...

Cherry blossom viewing, Ohanami in Japanese, has been going on recently, though with somewhat less of the usual drunken revelry found in...

Kirakiki Shrine, sometimes called Hirasaki Shrine was quite unexpected. I visited it around the middle of the 33rd day of the Kyushu Pil...

Isotake Beach Day three of my walk along the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage, and to get from the outskirts of the village of Isotake to the har...

One of the delights of walking pilgrimages in japan is that you need to get up before the sun and head out. This means you get to see th...

From Temple 23, Yakuoji, to temple 24, Hotsumisakiji, on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage it is more than 80k, and is they first of the ...

As I mentioned last post, here are some more shots of the bizarre architecture at the Nanohanakan sports complex in Ibusuki, Kagoshima. ...

While walking towards the Satsuma Denshokan I notices some curved, gleaming-metal shapes sticking up above the skyline not far away so ...

As far as I know, the Sankeien Garden is the only Jaoanese garden located within an airport. It can be found at Hiroshima Airport in the m...