More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Morikawa Residence Garden The Morikawa Residence was a "mansion" for a very wealthy merchant in Takehara on the south coast of Hir...

Mizuta Tenmangu A few miles north of the Geibunkan is the small town of Mizuta and the main shrines is a Tenmangu with this unusual Torii. ...

Takuno to Nima Takuno is a small fishing port that I visited late on the third day of my walk along the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage, my local Ka...

  At the Kyushu Geibunkan in the Chikugo area the second annex was also designed by Kengo Kuma. It gets much more attention than the first a...

Kannon After descending from Konomine Shrine and Konomineji temple 27 on the Shikoku Pilgrimage, the route heads north up the coast of Loc...

  The Kyushu Geibunkan   in southern Fukuoka is a large, modern, ""Culture Hall" designed by Kengo Kuma. Nearby in the park s...

Nameshi Dam Early evening on the 2nd may, 2017, and I arrived at the place I would spend the night. A wide roof with a wooden bench overloo...

  I had passed by this building several times on the train and was determined to visit it to explore when my walk took me through this secti...