More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  In the small castle town of Kitsuki in Oita there is a well preserved former samurai district with some of the Edo Period samurai residenc...

  Shiranuhi is a small town in rural Kumamoto. Shiranuhi Culture Plaza is a modrn building housing the library and a small museum. It is one...

  Matsubase is a small town in Kumamoto that I reached in the afternoon of my 45th day walking around Kyushu. Matsubase Shrine is the main s...

Mysteries Heading north through the paddies north of Yatsushiro I was surprised to see tractors planting in flooded paddies. I had read that...

Komainu While heading north across the coastal plain north of Yatsushiro I stopped in at about a dozen small shrines. They were mostly very...

Yatsushiro Monument Kilali Day 45 of my first walk around Kyushu and it's time to head north out of Yatsushiro towards Kumamoto City. ...

  Takehara is a small town on the coast of Hiroshima, east of Hiroshima City. It flourished as a port in Medieval japan when the Inland Sea ...

  Hateiji Temple was rather curious. On the one hand it appeared deserted and unused, but on the other there was a recently maintained gate ...

  Kiragawa is a small port on the west side of the Muroto Peninsula in Kochi on Shikoku. If you are following the Shikoku pilgrimage in the ...

  After leaving Fuki-ji temple, the oldest wooden building in Kyushu and a fairly major tourists site, I carried on up the narrow, mountain...