More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Io-ji Io-ji temple is not very large and is located not too far from the ruins of Yatsushiro Castle in Yatsushiro . The temple was patronize...

Yatsushiro I arrived at Yatsushiro Shrine in late November on the 44th day of my first walk around Kyushu. A few days earlier was the Yatsus...

Yatsushiro Shrine Yatsushiro Shrine is the major shrine of Yatsushiro in Kumamoto and was established towards the end of the heian Period. ...

Furufumotoinari Immediately adjacent to Shunkoji Temple was a series of vermillion torii heading up the hillside straddling a steep stairca...

Shunkoji After four days of following the Kumagawa River downstream, on day 44 of my walk around Kyushu I emerge from the mountains onto the...

  For years I had driven past signs pointing to the Izumo Mingeikan, but it wasnt't until recently that I visited it, and I must say I w...

Zuiganji After visiting Taisanji, the first temple on the Shikoku Fudo Myo Pilgrimage , I headed down the mountain and returned to my room i...

The Kikuya Family were the wealthiest family in the castle town of Hagi. Though merchants were ostensibly almost the lowest class in the Edo...

The Hiyoriyama Seacoast is a stretch of scenic coastline in Toyooka in northern Hyogo around the mouth of the Maruyama River. It is part of ...