More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  After visiting Kannabiji, we decided to head away from the river up into the mountains to check out Chokoji Temple. Famous for its large g...

  Christmas Eve, 2013, and I begin the 52nd day of my walk along the Kyushu Pilgrimage. With totally clear skies I begin heading out of Kuru...

Kannabiji Temple's Gingko It's that time of the year when I post some pics of this year's autumn colors. About three weeks ago ...

I must admit I had never heard of Kurume and knew nothing about it when I visited in the latter stages of my first walk around Kyushu, howev...

  Eitokuji is a small tem p le between temples 43 and 44. immediately adjacent to a bridge, Toyogahashi. It is the eighth bangai site on the...

  Nakano ark in Kurume, Fukuoka, is home to the Kurume City Aer Museum, the Shojiro Ishibashi Memorial Museum, and the main library. The are...

  Yakumo Honjin is a large, Edo-period residence formerly owned by the Kowata Family that also functioned as a honjin, a guesthouse for the ...

  At one end of Teramachi in Kurume is a largish garden called Henshoin. Henshoin still exists , but the garden is a modern creation built a...