More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  In the mountains of Saga, about halfway between Ureshino and Kashima, I came upon this quite impressive shrine with some intriguing histor...

  This is the second part of a post on the Ureshino Museum of Hidden Treasures, a curiously 1980s Japanese take on a sex museum. Once fairly...

  Just after crossing from Takeo into Ureshino I reached the place I had made a 15 kilometers detour to see, the Ureshino Hihokan. With a la...

  Kawanobori is the last settlement along the old Nagasaki Kaido in Takeo before it comes into Ureshino. In Higashikawanobori I was surprise...

  Mid February, and the plum trees lining the approach to Uchida Tenmangu are about to burst into bloom. Tenmangu shrines often have plum tr...

  Quarries are a common site along the country roads of Japan where I do all my walking. Not long after leaving Yumeginga I passed by the ra...

  Yumeginga is the name given to the Space & Science Museum in Saga Prefecture. It is located on a hilltop outside the town of Takeo, fa...