More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Shopfronts of Izushi Castle Town Izushi in northern Hyogo is a former castle town that has enough of its traditional architecture left remai...

  While studying maps to set my route as I walked from Kurume Naritasan and the Giant Kannon back to Kurume where I was based for several da...

  About one kilometer further on from Imaura Harbour, I reached the beach at Fukumitsu. On a sunny day, when the sky is blue, the calm sea ...

Naritasan Kurume Naritasan is a branch of the famous Naritasan temple in Chiba. A couple of days previously I had visited the Kumamoto branc...

  This is the 4th and final post on Myo-on-ji temple. It is not a famous temple, nor particularly ancient or large. However, it does have a ...

新世界 Shinsekai is the entertainment district around the Tsutenkaku Tower in the south of Osaka City, On the right of the photo above you can...

  Readers of my recent post on the Giant Kannon Statue in Kurume will have noticed the appearance of a distinctly Indian-looking building....

  Funatama and Tamahime Inari are a set of small hokora shrines found along the Nakahechi route of the Kumano Kodo. They lie on the Otonashi...